Design Thinkers Podcast

Why businesses need to experiment more

In our latest Design Thinker podcast we explore the importance of experimentation in business. We are on a quest to find out: What do we mean by experiments in business

By all of us & never just one of us

In this podcast we talk to our new Design Director, Goldie Chaudhuri. Goldie was Goldie was the individual we spoke to on our first ever podcast and we return to talk to

The Equity Activists

How might we create equality of opportunity through design and tap talent potential in a multicultural society? That's the question we sought to explore in the first even

Using design to tackle LGBTQ+ hate crime

With LGBTQ+ hate crime on the rise, what would you do to stop it? For Marta Lima, a Technical Product Owner for Cloud Engineering at Vodafone, the answer lay in design. I

How can Design Thinking improve healthcare?

The pressures of the pandemic have left healthcare even more crippled than before. With patient backlog and patient waiting times at their worst in years across the NHS,

Why the world needs more intrapreneurs

"How to unleash the power of intrapreneurs like Joe? The key is to enable them to pursue their vision." This question, asked by Richard Branson back in 2010, feels more r

Can you learn Design Thinking in just two days?

So do you want to learn about Design Thinking but you're short of time? Well, our Design Thinking Fundamentals course may be the one for you. Taking place over just two-d

How to get Design Thinking to take off at your workplace

So you’ve taken a Design Thinkers Academy London course, but what’s next? Perhaps you slot straight into a Design Thinking project, but what if you’re in an organisation

How to use Service Blueprints

A Service Blueprint is a is a diagram that shows how a service really works in detail. It connects the customers experience with the people and activities that help deliv

What is Systems Thinking?

In our latest podcast, coach Simon Gough explains what is Systems Thinking and how it makes Design Thinking projects more successful. Simon Gough is an experienced desig

How to launch a Startup

Despite the many business closures of 2020 due to the pandemic, it also saw the launch of a record number of start-ups. Around 407,510 new businesses were formed during t

How to lift people out of poverty using Design Thinking

Some of you may have heard of the charity YMCA – the Young Man’s Christian Association. It was founded nearly 180 years ago in Britain. Now it’s based in Geneva and helps

Designing Shambala Festival

Shambala is a four-day festival that takes place in Northamptonshire, England with over 200 musical, comedy, and dance acts across dozens of venues and stages, winning mu

The Power of Prototypes

In our craft series we recently introduced our new prototyping course, which teaches participants to use prototypes to test their ideas: determining if they are solving t

Meet the Coaches: Arne van Oosterom

For our upcoming Design Sprint Camp, we have a wide range of facilitators and coaches here to teach the very best of Design Thinking focussed towards our climate based ch

When Design Thinking & Big Tech took on Plastics

In this podcast we look at how the Design Thinkers Academy London used a Design Sprint to help one of the world’s largest software companies to initiate an idea that has

When Design Thinking Meets Consultancy

For our latest podcast we spoke to one our newest facilitators, Alieu Fofanah. Alieu is a senior consultant, facilitator and leadership coach and has worked within the pr

The Art of Facilitation

Effective facilitation in the workplace has never been more important, as the world navigates the vast complexities of remote working. So, for our latest podcast, we spea

Understanding Ethnography

For our next podcast we focussed on the research method critical to Design Thinking: ethnography. Here we explore what ethnography is and its history as a research method

Can Design Thinking impact our Climate Crisis?

Our second Design Thinkers Academy London podcast is here, this time with The Climate Group focussing on climate action and the role Design Thinking can play in the crisi