Certified Design Thinking for Executives
Equip yourself with the Design Thinking principles that help executives lead with empathy, unlock team creativity, and build a culture of innovation from the top down.
Design Thinking is a popular framework used to discover unmet customer needs and ideate solutions that can be validated quickly for rapid iteration. Kickstarted by IDEO and the Stanford d.school, it’s adopted today by teams and organizations worldwide that want to foster innovation.
Spearhead adoption of Design Thinking with Executive-level education. Design Thinking is a popular framework used to discover unmet customer needs and ideate solutions that can be validated quickly for rapid iteration. Kickstarted by IDEO and the Stanford d.school, it’s adopted today by teams and organizations around the world that want to foster innovation.
This program is ideal for Executives and team Leaders who wish to learn the foundational principles of Design Thinking and how to leverage it to foster new ways of working, solving problems and creating innovative thinking in their teams.
Certified by Spark Engine.

What you will learn
- Learn how the world’s most innovative organizations think
- Leverage Design Thinking to unlock team creativity and build a culture of innovation from the top down.
- Articulate numerous customer discovery methods
- Conduct 1:1 customer empathy research
- Develop compelling customer insights
- Frame business and customer challenges in ways that lead to creative solutions
- Contribute to, and lead, creative ideation sessions
- Drive continuous discovery and validation of product ideas and solution prototypes
- Innovate with teams in ways that are collaborative and creative
The class is composed of 1 or 2 days of hands-on learning, designed to fit within the busy schedule of Executives.
The class is taught by a Certified Product Innovation Trainer (CPIT) with multi-year experience in applying Design Thinking and delivering successful products in market.


This course was excellent. It helped give me the initial tools that I needed to be successful while taking on a product manager role.

The “Doing” was a great way of reinforcing the “Seeing” and the “Hearing”. It’s the educational trifecta, and it works.

Extremely valuable. This was a fantastic course and Holly was an excellent instructor who helped us really get in the mindset of design thinking.
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