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Facilitation for
Business Leaders
2 Days
This course will give you a structured approach to planning, designing and running workshops – as well as giving you a safe space to practice your facilitation skills and get feedback from our expert coaches.
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Arnoud Koning
Design thinking champion
Fiona Myles
Leading brand strategist
Holly May Mahoney
Design Lead
Design Thinkers Academy
Belinda Abbott
Head of Faculty
Design Thinkers Academy
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24th – 25th January
09.00 – 17:30 
Central London 
Design Thinkers
Bootcamp
5 Days
Explore the transformative potential of design thinking with us. You’ll be guided on an intensive journey through every stage of the design and innovation cycle, gaining newfound confidence as a design thinker.
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Joe Ferry
Brand & experience architect
Eddie Obeng
Innovation & change leader
David Kester
Design evangelist & orchestrator
Arnoud Koning
Design thinking champion
J. Paul Neeley
Designer & Researcher
Holly May Mahoney
Design Lead
Design Thinkers Academy
Belinda Abbott
Head of Faculty
Design Thinkers Academy
Blythe Wild
Programme Coordinator
Design Thinkers Academy
Shanna Bent
Customer Relationship Coordinator
Design Thinkers Academy
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4th – 8th Feb 2019
09.00 – 18:00 Central London 
Design Thinking
Fundamentals
2 Days
Learn the core principles of design thinking on our concentrated course. Our expert coaches will give you a solid introduction to the theory and then take you straight onto ‘learning through doing’.
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Catherine Collins
Service designer and educator
More than Metrics
Holly May Mahoney
Design Lead
Design Thinkers Academy
Belinda Abbott
Head of Faculty
Design Thinkers Academy
Blythe Wild
Programme Coordinator
Design Thinkers Academy
Shanna Bent
Customer Relationship Coordinator
Design Thinkers Academy
Next course
28th - 29th March
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)
Tailor a course
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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The Plastics Cloud - The Story
The Plastics Cloud - The Story
Daniel Boettcher
Long Read
The Plastics Cloud - How a unique collaboration between technology and design thinking is pointing to new ways of reducing plastic waste.
Read allDesign thinking and social material
Design thinking and social material
Matthew Taylor
Long Read
What are the three questions you should ask when designing good policy? In this Long Read, Matthew Taylor argues that effective services and policies are built around people. And this means assessing your strategy against the different ways people work together.
Read allBringing ideas to life (profitably)
Bringing ideas to life (profitably)
Eddie Obeng
Short Read
We all think innovation is important, so why is there relatively little of it around? In this Short Read, Eddie Obeng gives his recommendations for ways of overcoming risk in innovation. With reference to the different phases of design thinking, Eddie argues that new ideas can also mean good business.
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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 HOLLY MAY MAHONEY
Holly May Mahoney is a service designer with experience that spans the private and public sectors. Find out more about her.
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