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Facilitation
Autumn
For Creative Leadership
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
Payal Wadhwa
Service Design Lead
Fjord
Next course
9th – 10th Oct
09.00 – 17.30 
Central London 
Design Thinking Fundamentals
Autumn
Fundamentals
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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Team
Catherine Collins
Service designer and educator
More than Metrics
Jo Maude
Producer
Next course
23rd – 24th Oct
09.00 – 18.00 Central London 
Design Thinkers
Autumn
Bootcamp
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
Adelaide Vinay
Research project leader
Next course
6th – 10th Nov
09.30 – 17.30 Central London 
Design Thinkers
Spring
Bootcamp
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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Joe Ferry
Brand & experience architect
Eddie Obeng
Innovation & change leader
Becky Rowe
Ethnography & research guru
David Kester
Design evangelist & orchestrator
Arne van Oosterom
Service designer
Arnoud Koning
Design thinking champion
Tim Schuurman
Leading design thinker
Adelaide Vinay
Research project leader
Next course
26th Feb – 2nd Mar
09.30 – 17.30 Central London 
Facilitation
Spring
For Creative Leadership
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
Fiona Myles
Leading brand strategist
Next course
5th – 6th Mar
09.00 – 17.30 Central London Companies Graduated
Companies Graduated
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
The Design Thinkers Bootcamp gives you the means and the confidence to redesign services around the customer and bring fresh insight into a business.
Cecilia Makinde, Zurich Life
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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Blog
Finding brilliant people
Finding brilliant people
Madelaine Cooper
Long Read
Remember that bit of business psychology called The Halo Effect? Recruiter Madelaine Cooper isn’t talking about divine apparitions, but the fact that if an organisation appears to be attractive from the outside it can predispose candidates to overlook any negatives. If it was true it would be easy to get brilliant people to work for you.
Read allHow design thinking connects different worlds
How design thinking connects different worlds
Ezri Carlebach
Long Read
Design has its own particular culture, just as business does. And so do ‘sub-cultures’ like 1970s punk rock. This might sound like the start of a corny joke, but what would happen if a punk rock band, an anthropologist and a couple of MBAs walked into a bar? And how does it help organisations to solve problems? Ezri Carlebach sets off to find the punch line.
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& The BRIT School
Creative Education
& The BRIT School
Madelaine Cooper
Long Read
How can we encourage creative thinking when arts and culture are systematically being removed from the education system? Recruiter and business adviser, Madelaine Cooper, discusses the importance of adding disciplines that promote creativity to the school curriculum to ensure that future leaders will be able to think independently.
Read allMeet our coaches
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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