Showcase your design thinking expertise

Earn a certificate from Stanford GSB Executive Education

Apply Stanford's prescribed design thinking approach to business challenges and showcase your expertise

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Learn Design thinking from

Tenured Stanford GSB faculty

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Prof. Stefanos Zenios

Faculty Co-Director

Stanford GSB’s Center for Entrepreneurial Studies

An innovative teacher and researcher, Professor Zenios is the main architect of Startup Garage, a popular Stanford Graduate School of Business course that each year helps hundreds of Stanford Graduate School of Business’ students and executives learn and apply the innovation processes that are at the center of the Silicon Valley ecosystem.

Develop innovative problem-solving skills with

Industry-relevant curriculum

Solve real-world challenges in your industry through user research, brainstorming, and prototyping

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Human-Centered Design

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Ideation & Solution Definition

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Interviewing & Empathy-building

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Developing and Testing Prototypes

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Making Sense of Observations & Insights

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Defining & Testing Business Models

Our Learners’ Success Stories

Design Thinking helped me focus on innovating customer centric products.

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Ross Dickie

President & COO, Human eSources, USA

The Design Thinking course experience has been a game-changer.

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Fortuna Ludmir

Founder and Executive Director, Fundación BIK, USA

The entire program was valuable and all its content is worth taking back to the organization.

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Varun Sabharwal

Head Of Product Management, LC Adroit Vantage, India

A learning experience that is rich and fulfilling.

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Marcus Goodyear

Senior Director Of Communications, H. E. Butt Foundation, USA

The program was an eye opener for me.

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Jit Anbu

Founder and CEO, Sprint Networks, Australia

Perfect program to link innovation with business outcome.

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Manmohan Singh Rehsi

Chief Executive Officer, Thakral Gulf FZE, UAE

An enriching learning experience from course facilitators.

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Soumendra Mohanty

Chief Strategy Officer & Chief Information Officer, Tredence Inc., India

Design Thinking program brought a paradigm shift towards problem solving.

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Riya Varghese

Director, M Moser Associates, India

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Industry-oriented learners’ projects

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    Recruitment

    Source potential candidates for vacancies efficiently

    Companies invest numerous resources to find a strong fit for an existing vacancy within an organization. With the diversity of talent available in the market, it’s a matter of bridging the gap of talent and the vacancy. An effective approach to scout for talent can help reduce time and effort for an effective recruitment.
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    Human Resources - Talent Management

    Engage and motivate employees effectively

    With multiple companies adopting a remote office setup, it’s become ever so important to ensure that the geographical boundaries do not diminish the spirit of the employee towards his/ her organization. This would determine the extent of employee’s emotional alignment with the organization which would lead to lower rate of attrition.
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    Sales

    Deliver superior after sales experience for customers

    With the rising competition in the market, with the customer having access to multiple local as well international brands to consider from, one of the key differentiators is the after sale experience. It can potentially prove to be the factor that decides the success of the product. It is paramount for the brand to deliver superior after sale service to gain market share and establish themselves.
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    Health & Wellness

    Enable better hygiene practices in India

    With the Covid situation, it has become increasingly important for people to understand the importance of public hygiene. Through collective efforts and best practices, such pandemic situations can be mitigated in a more effective manner in the future.
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The program is ideal for

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LEADERS

Leaders who want to scale their business and deliver operational excellence

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ENTREPRENEURS

Entrepreneurs who are looking to create impactful new organizations and businesses

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PROFESSIONALS

Professionals who wish to develop a user-centric mindset while creating products and services

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INDIVIDUALS

Individuals aspiring to learn & implement a design thinking approach

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