Design Thinking for Leaders

For businesses to be truly innovative, a design-led and human-centered approach to innovation must be embedded from the top down. When leaders embrace design thinking and understand their own personal value proposition, change is rapid and has a significant impact on the success and culture of teams. To that end, executive-level buy-in is critical; emphasizing the need for executives to both understand and support design-led innovation.

Build your leadership capacity with the tools to guide your team through change using human-centered methodology that encourages co-creation and a deep understanding of the end-user. By the end of this training, you will understand how to lead your team towards delivering impactful outcomes - whether that’s shaping or improving a product or service - using data, empathy, rapid prototyping, and iteration.

This interactive session will build on real-life challenges using design thinking case studies that ensure the tools and methodology taught are immediately applicable in the workplace and in your life.

What You’ll Learn:

• How to build and assess innovation capacity among teams.
• Essential considerations to effectively lead teams delivering on end-user experience and/or transformation initiatives.
• Innovative approaches to service design to better address the needs of customers and drive innovation.
• Insights on how to prototype and experiment in any environment.
• Your own personal value proposition and creating prototypes of your own future.

Who Should Attend:

Leaders from all sectors who are leading or participating in product or policy development, service design/delivery (both internally and externally), transformation, or change management initiatives.

The training session will be held virtually on October 8-9, 2025. Each day, participants will join a 2-hour virtual session in the morning and a second 2-hour session in the afternoon. This format allows you to weave this training into your day - allowing you to continue to lead your teams, while growing your leadership skills. All while working from home!

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Virtual Format

Spring2 Innovation will be holding the course over Zoom, an interactive virtual platform that you can access online from home.

Do not use your corporate VPN line to access the online training. You can simply log in using your home internet by clicking the link we will provide. You can also call in using your telephone.

The course will be broken down as such :

• October 8, 2025: 9:00 -11:00 am & 1:00 -3:00 pm
• October 9, 2025: 9:00 -11:00 am & 1:00 -3:00 pm

Please plan to attend all 4 sessions listed above as each session builds upon the last.

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