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Come on one of our courses and you’ll learn how to design around your customer. You’ll try out proven tools on real-life challenges. You’ll develop practical skills you can apply tomorrow. And you’ll leave with the know-how and confidence to drive change across your organisation.
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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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Team
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
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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Eddie Obeng
Innovation & change leader
Pentacle
Joe Ferry
Brand & experience architect
David Kester
Design evangelist & orchestrator
Design Thinkers Academy
J. Paul Neeley
Designer & Researcher
Arnoud Koning
Design thinking champion
Procter & Gamble
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
8th – 12th Oct
09.00 – 18.00 Central London 
Design Thinking
Facilitation
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.
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Arnoud Koning
Design thinking champion
Procter & Gamble
David Kester
Design evangelist & orchestrator
Design Thinkers Academy
Payal Wadhwa
Service Design Lead
Fjord
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
Fiona Myles
Leading brand strategist
Kin
Next course
12th – 13th Nov
09.00 – 18.00 Central London 
Design Thinkers
Bootcamp
Spring
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.
View courseTeam
Joe Ferry
Brand & experience architect
Eddie Obeng
Innovation & change leader
Pentacle
David Kester
Design evangelist & orchestrator
Design Thinkers Academy
Arnoud Koning
Design thinking champion
Procter & Gamble
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
Next course
4th – 8th Feb 2019
09.00 – 18:00 Central London 
Design Thinking
Facilitation
Spring
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
Procter & Gamble
David Kester
Design evangelist & orchestrator
Design Thinkers Academy
Fiona Myles
Leading brand strategist
Kin
Holly May Mahoney
Design Lead
Design Thinkers Academy
Blythe Wild
Programme Coordinator
Design Thinkers Academy
Belinda Abbott
Head of Faculty
Design Thinkers Academy
Shanna Bent
Customer Relationship Coordinator
Design Thinkers Academy
Next course
2019 Dates TBC
09.00 – 17.30 Central London 
Design Thinking
Fundamentals
Summer
Explore the core principles of design thinking in this immersive introductory course. In two fast-paced days, our expert coaches will guide you through the theory as you ‘learn by doing’.
View course
Team
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
2019 Dates TBC
09.00 – 18.00 Central London 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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Companies graduated
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)
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
At the Design Thinkers Bootcamp I discovered a whole set of tools that I could put into action immediately.
Cécile Michel, Alstom Transport
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
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
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