Train the Trainer: Innovation & Design Thinking Facilitator Program

Learn to design and facilitate your own workshops, sessions, programs, or classes—whether your focus is on innovation, leadership, team building, communication, or any other topic—using our coaching and online courses

Apply design thinking and innovation methods to create and facilitate impactful sessions on any topic of your choice. While our expertise centers around design thinking and innovation, you’ll gain the skills and tools to develop workshops for your preferred subject areas.

What you'll get as a part of this program:

• Access to our proven design thinking and innovation process and activities to learn from for your own work

• Our Ph.D. level research and knowledge to maximize learning, engagement, and outcomes for your program participants

• Specialized asynchronous online workshops on facilitating innovation AND an online course that is the equivalent of a 3 credit university course

• Two live coaching meetings with us to receive ideas for the program you would like to design and facilitate

• One-on-one or small group customized coaching and training to tap into our experience designing programs for over 1 million people and facilitating design thinking and training on innovation for over 100 organizations and universities

While completing this program you will:

• Create and lead your own "prototype" workshop. This can be on your own topic or an innovation or design thinking session or program.
• Create your own unique workshop that you can offer within your organization as an innovative facilitator, coach, mentor, or leader.
• Complete a project to design and facilitate your own unique session and earn a certificate.

Become a part of our program and get access to future innovation facilitator training modules, updates, and special opportunities. Some of our latest modules are on storytelling and using ChatGPT in your design thinking and innovation facilitation.

We want to make sure this program is the right fit for you. Please email Darin at [email protected] to share why you are interested in design thinking and innovation facilitation and training so we can make sure you would be a good fit to get the learning that you are seeking. This program can be done individually or with others in a group. We can even custom design live workshop sessions if you'd like to bring this program to your organization.

Train the Trainer Innovation Certification Testimonials

Please email us at [email protected] if you are interested in this unique program or any questions you might have. This program is designed to be delivered in numerous ways and we may suggest a learning and development path based on your goals. Here are some examples from clients across the globe.

Teaching & Learning Style of this Unique Program

This "self-service" model includes several online course modules and two 1-hour coaching sessions with founder, Darin Eich. The train-the-trainer program is self-directed; you choose what online workshops are of interest to you. (This is like selecting workshops at a conference on design thinking, innovation, and facilitation. You will select from different modules based on what you would like to learn and explore.) Once selected you will learn from the videos/materials and your questions can be answered during the coaching sessions.

Most people pick the individual workshops they'd like to do, but if they prefer to have them sequenced, we can make some recommendations. Many of our innovation consultants start with the facilitation workshop track since that is usually an opportunity area for them. Typically experienced educators, facilitators, and coaches like to focus on the design thinking or innovation modules. Many people just enroll in the program for the ongoing access to the courses and resources. To earn the Design Thinking Innovation Facilitation Certificate - the enrollee must complete 20 hours of learning & development in online workshops, two coaching sessions with Dr. Eich, designing and ultimately delivering their own workshop or program, etc.

Check out some of the video modules available for preview in the individual online courses bundled as a part of the program. Here's a video showing how to get started with the capstone project of designing and facilitating your own unique workshop or session that will also show you Darin's coaching and teaching style. (Video)

This program does not provide boiler plate materials for you to use; instead, the goal of the Train the Trainer Program is for you, the student, to create your own unique workshops, sessions, or activities using the tools, techniques, and approaches provided and applying them uniquely to your setting by tailoring the activities to your audience and purpose. You are the designer. You are the design thinker. You are the innovator. You are innovating how you facilitate and how you design sessions with design thinking.

We continuously add new content every year. Lately, the new modules have included applying AI tools which are completely transformational for innovation and facilitation.

Design Thinking Facilitator Program

We are a design thinking organization. We'd like to learn about you and what you would like to achieve so we can make recommendations for a program focus for you. Each innovation certification program is designed for your needs. Please email us at [email protected] about your interest, questions, and what you'd like to learn or be able to do as a result of this program.