Join us for an intensive six-day workshop to help you design more human-centered, strategic, and effective programs and organizations in the social sector. You will learn how to apply the tools, approaches, and mindsets of design thinking, combined with the basics of systems thinking, to tackle complex multi-stakeholder social sector challenges. This work is contextualized within your organization’s strategy and real-world constraints.

Workshop Highlights

Human-Centered Systems-Minded Design

You will experience integrating human-centered design and systems thinking methods, and see how they complement each other.

Interactive, experiential learning

Learn via hands-on project work, interactive lectures, and activities that help build your capacity to be more creative, insightful, collaborative, and strategic.

Workshop project challenge

Go beyond the theoretical and put techniques into practice by working in teams on a real project in partnership with a nonprofit or government organization.

“Take-it-home” focus

Understand how to apply these practices to your work when you return home. We will help you scope a human-centered design project, design an experiment, and develop tactics specific to your work.

Active coaching

Throughout the project work, and your “take it home” work, receive expert coaching in the techniques, behaviors, and mindsets. We average one teaching team member for every four participants.

Real-world case studies

Hear from leading innovators, including past d.school fellows and other pioneers in the social sector, who are applying these practices to their work.