Summer
COURSES
Facilitation for
Creative Leadership
Summer
Take your facilitation skills to the next level, supported by our coaches. In our dynamic two-day course, you’ll hone the skills you need to guide innovation and service design in business. And you’ll explore how to manage different personality types.
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Arnoud Koning
Design thinking champion
David Kester
Design evangelist & orchestrator
Fiona Myles
Leading brand strategist
Holly May Mahoney
Design Lead
DTA
Belinda Abbott
Head of Faculty
DTA
Next course
2nd – 3rd July
09.00 – 18:00 
Central London 
Design Thinking
Fundamentals
Autumn
Learn the core principles of service design and design thinking in this introductory course. In two fast-paced days, our expert coach will explain the theory and guide you as you put it into practice.
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Catherine Collins
Service designer and educator
More than Metrics
Jo Maude
Producer
DTA
Holly May Mahoney
Design Lead
DTA
Belinda Abbott
Head of Faculty
DTA
Next course
27th – 28th Sept
09.00 – 18.00 Central London 
Design Thinkers
Bootcamp
Autumn
Join us on our intensive Bootcamp and you’ll explore every stage of the design and innovation cycle. You’ll build your knowledge across five fast-paced days, from user-centric research to prototyping ideas to the final pitch.
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Becky Rowe
Ethnography & research guru
Eddie Obeng
Innovation & change leader
Joe Ferry
Brand & experience architect
David Kester
Design evangelist & orchestrator
Arne van Oosterom
Service designer
Arnoud Koning
Design thinking champion
Tim Schuurman
Leading design thinker
Holly May Mahoney
Design Lead
DTA
Belinda Abbott
Head of Faculty
DTA
Next course
8th – 12th Oct
09.00 – 18.00 Central London 
Facilitation for
Creative Leadership
Autumn
Take your facilitation skills to the next level, supported by our coaches. In our dynamic two-day course, you’ll hone the skills you need to guide innovation and service design in business. And you’ll explore how to manage different personality types.
View courseTeam
Arnoud Koning
Design thinking champion
David Kester
Design evangelist & orchestrator
Payal Wadhwa
Service Design Lead
Fjord
Holly May Mahoney
Design Lead
DTA
Belinda Abbott
Head of Faculty
DTA
Next course
12th – 13th Nov
09.00 – 18.00 Central London Companies Graduated
Companies Graduated
These skills will go with you anywhere; invest in your future - you’ll think of the world differently - do it!
Gary Hartley, General Manager, GS1 New Zealand
The Design Thinkers Academy is all you need to start changing your company's design culture.
Miquel Mora, Technicolor
The Design Thinkers Academy courses will change your perspective and deepen your customer insights.
Robin Mahadeo, PricewaterhouseCoopers UK
At the Design Thinkers Bootcamp I discovered a whole set of tools that I could put into action immediately.
Cécile Michel, Alstom Transport
This bootcamp made me live and breath design thinking and it wouldn't have been possible without David and the eminent coaches.
Kranthi Bairi, Head of Delivery, Atos
I left this course feeling genuinely empowered to change the way we do things for the better. Thank you!
Toby Garrood, Consultant Rheumatologist at Guy's and St Thomas' (NHS Foundation Trust)
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TAILOR A COURSE
We have a long track record of designing customised courses for business. You can tailor any of our open courses for your organisation. Ask us to run a one-off stimulus workshop, train your leaders in design thinking or help you build an innovation culture across your business.
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Learning by Doing with Kitchenette Karts
Learning by Doing with Kitchenette Karts
Shanna Bent
design thinking, learning
New recruit Shanna Bent talks about our team away day where we learnt how to design and sell sandwiches by the social enterprise Kitchenette Karts.
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Meet Belinda - Head of Faculty
Hayley Canning
Long Read
Hayley sits down with Belinda, our new Head of Faculty, to find out more about her career and what she loves about Design Thinking.
Read allOur Top Design Thinking Blogs
Our Top Design Thinking Blogs
Hayley Canning
design thinking
We’ve collated our favourite design thinking resources from the last 6 months to bring you the ultimate reading list for those long, cold, winter commutes.
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All of our coaches are practitioners at the frontline of business and design. We love what we do and we'd like you to meet one of our very own.
MEET ARNE VAN OOSTEROM
Arne is one of the founders of the Design Thinkers Academy. We love his creativity, business acumen and warm personality. To find out more about him, head over to the blog section.
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