BUILD YOUR DESIGN THINKING CAPABILITIES WITH OUR ONLINE COURSES, OPEN REGISTRATION WORKSHOPS AND IN-HOUSE TRAINING

The DesignThinkers Academy NZ is New Zealand’s premier specialist provider of Human Centred Design training. Our programme’s are developed by our global base in the Netherlands and delivered online and in-person by highly experienced local facilitators.

In addition to the popular 1-day Design Thinking Fundamentals and 2- day Design Thinking Facilitation workshops we’re proud to announce the following new workshops. Please click on the links for more information from our NZ Course catalogue on our global academy website.

Visit DesignThinkers Academy NZ for all workshops and services

NEW 2-Day Employee Experience Design

NEW Online Facilitated Design Thinking Courses

Contact Darryl at darryl@designthinkersgroup.co.nz

Covid-19 Update: We live in uncertain times right now and as a nation need to be ready to change plans at short notice, for everyone’s safety. In the case that this impacts on one of our advertised workshops then we will reschedule to a future date and provide the option to transfer to one of our online courses. Thank you.

1-DAY

DESIGN THINKING FUNDAMENTALS WORKSHOP

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2-DAY

DESIGN THINKING FACILITATION WORKSHOP

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WHAT PEOPLE SAY

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Esther HarcourtSenior Service Designer, Wellington, New Zealand
“The 2-day Design Thinking Facilitation workshop gave me exactly what I needed - it is perfectly designed for someone who has been working in the field for a few years and needs consolidation, peer feedback and coaching to take their skills to the next level.”

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Elaine CampbellSkinny Marketing
“Fun, fast paced with awesome thinking approaches that can be applied to a wide range of projects.”

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Steve TullettPlato Creative
“Great day. I want to get on and start playing with it, gain some confidence and see where it can take us.”

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Nicola HenshawDirector of Customer Experience .99
“The 2-day Design Thinking Facilitation Mastery workshop was brilliant. It was great to gain the wisdom and expertise from the DesignThinkers Group team as to how to set yourself up for success. The course was highly practical, giving us practice facilitating groups and solving a real world problem. We left armed with a suite of great new tools, exercises and techniques to run effective workshops in the future.”

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Amy PollokColenso BBDO
“A day that was both high-level and comprehensive, and made me excited to take the tools and use them in my day-to-day.”

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Sean WiggansTurners Group NZ
“It’s a big topic to cover in a day – but if you want to get a good understanding around what Design Thinking is, this workshop will deliver.”

WHY CHOOSE OUR WORKSHOPS?

Our workshops have been developed by the DesignThinkers Group global headquarters based in the Netherlands by leading experts and practitioners and have been taught all around world. We’ve successfully helped people create positive change within their organisations and for their customers by teaching them Design Thinking capabilities through public and in-house workshops.

LEARN BY DOING

We adopt a hands-on approach way of learning with teams working on live projects thoughout the workshop. You’ll be working and co-designing with people from a diverse range of industries and backgrounds that you can learn and share your own expertise and experience with.

PRACTICAL APPLICATION

Our workshops are designed to teach you Design Thinking methodologies that you can apply in your business immediately. What you’ll learn can be applied to solve a huge variety of challenges across commercial industries as well as health, educational, community and governmental sectors.