• The Innovation Leadership Course

       

       

    • The DSIL Course Sequence

      This course was designed for the modern day leader with their schedules in mind. We create an environment for rich, manageable, and relevant learning.

      9 day Immersion in Southeast Asia

      8 day Immersion

      Southeast Asia

       

       

      Online Virtual Classrooms

      Virtual Classrooms

      Online

       

       

      DSIL Challenges

      DSIL Challenges

      At Home

       

       

      Expand your network of global leaders

      Expand your Network

      Globally

       

       

      Executive coaching

      Executive Coaching

      1:1

       

       

       

    • Innovation leadership is the path forward. We develop leaders holistically by teaching a horizontal breadth of emerging tools and skills, and a vertical depth of awareness and EQ.

    • Vertical Development

      Increase your Level of Leadership

      Learn to think with expanded perspectives and increase your emotional intelligence along the way. It is more important than ever to understand who you are and how you affect others since leadership today lives amidst hyper-diversity, adversity, and increasingly interdependent systems.

      Throughout each phase of the course, the DSIL learning environments and coaches will challenge you to understand more about yourself - both your strengths and also pull out where exactly your areas for growth lie. The DSIL Berkeley- trained coaches will support you personally so that you can work on the areas that matter the most to your development both in your personal and professional life. Only 15% of the world will grow to reach the highest level of vertical development. Are you one of them?

    • Horizontal Development

      The Innovation Process of Design Thinking

      A well-defined, robust, collaborative problem-solving method with many tools embedded within each phase that drive organizations forward.

      The design thinking method is an innovation process that allows for deeper and wider understanding of complex challenges.

      The Design Thinking method is an innovation process that allows for deeper and wider understanding of complex challenges and how to build solutions for them. At the DSIL Course, you'll actively learn the process and tools, but also develop the mindsets they require through engaging in design sprints with living companies and enterprises in Southeast Asia using their real challenges as a learning lab.

       

      Ideal for any person looking to set themselves apart, Design Thinking is a tool that has helped facilitate the creation of user-focused solutions in organizations like Google, IBM, Clorox, Nike, UNICEF, and World Vision.

    • Alumni Story:

      Sawako | Japan

      Sawako came to learn about creating innovative grassroot solutions that she could teach forward at her University.

      Alumni Story:

      Chris | Austria

      An Entrepreneur and Creative, Chris came to learn about the practice and of design thinking.

       

      Alumni Story:

      Mansi | India

      An Intrapreneur and Problem Solver, Mansi came to learn about authentic communication and leadership.

    • What You'll Learn

      • The details of design thinking (or human-centered design) mindsets and skills.
      • How to lead co-creation with a diverse group of cultures and perspectives.
      • How to use storytelling as an effective tool to amplify ideas and ignite your leadership.
      • Master the interdependent collaborator mindset: see systems, patterns, and connections while holding multiple perspectives of the world around you.
      • Increase your emotional intelligence score and understand better who you are and how that moves your work. 
      • How to teach forward what you learn; we teach to train so that you may drive innovation in your organization/community for years to come.

    • At the DSIL Innovation and Leadership Course, learning is layered for busy leaders.

      Learn more about each phase in the 5-months.

      Your learning will be layered with unique experiences, new tools, lots of practice, a support network, and a coach walking with you along the way.

      The DSIL Innovation and Leadership Course includes the Virtual Classrooms featuring global thought leaders in innovation and leadership.

      Virtual Classrooms

      Our Virtual Classrooms were created with the curious, time-crunched leader in mind. 

       

      Virtual Classrooms are 60-minute meet-ups led by the world's foremost thought leaders on topics such as organizational change, social innovation, empathy, design thinking for life and work, authentic leadership, and entrepreneurship.

       

      Our speakers have represented University of California Berkeley Executive Coaching Institute, the Stanford d.school, MIT D-Lab, and THNK School of Creative Leadership to name a few. Click to view past classrooms.

      The 9-day field immersion in Southeast Asia provides a unique opportunity for Vertical Leadership Development.

      9-day field immersion

      You will not find anything like a traditional academic environment on the DSIL Course. 

       

      At DSIL, we believe that learning occurs through questioning, reflecting, and experimenting during every experience. We use design thinking methods that can be used both professionally and personally. The immersions are created in collaboration with local communities and focus on solving real challenges that social enterprises face through workshops and design sprints.

       

      We work in highly diverse teams alongside partners from academia, grassroots movements, social enterprises, and entrepreneurial ecosystems.

      The DSIL Innovation and Leadership Course helps you expand your network of diverse global leaders.

      Expand Your Network

      The DSIL course is about the people that travel, experiment, and learn beside you for years to come.

       

      DSIL participants are selected for their diverse professional and personal backgrounds. No two cohorts are the same. Our students exemplify an ability to show bias towards action, radical openness, critical thinking, and a readiness for upward growth.

       

      Currently, the DSIL Course Community totals over 130+ alumni from 55+ countries.

      Through the DSIL Challenges you apply your newfound innovation and leadership skills to real-world situations in your own company or community.

      DSIL Challenges

      Experiencing learnings alongside others creates learning that lasts.

       

      Throughout the 5 month course, you will be asked to complete 5 hands-on challenges that will facilitate heightened self-awareness.

       

      To solidify your learning, the DSIL Challenges offer practice to lead in your own company or community. The results are increased confidence in applying your newfound skillsets to real-world situations.

      During the DSIL Innovation and Leadership Course, certified executive coaches guide you through challenges.

      Executive Coaching

      We learn when we can see where we get stuck using tools, how that relates to our unique development path.

       

      The course is customized for each individual with one-on-one University of California Berkeley-certified coaches whom will guide you throughout challenges during the course. Our coaches will also be there to help you get clear on how to specifically integrate these skills and build new habits after the course in your real life, wherever you are.

    • The Importance of the Southeast Asia Immersion

      Southeast Asia is quickly establishing itself as a fast-growing economic powerhouse for think-tanks and innovation. The region is also a keeper of rich, diverse cultures as plentiful as the many islands that dot the boundaries. As a global hub with diverse communities living and working together, you'll grasp the importance of just how important it is that we start learning how to think together and lead differently.

       

      The DSIL Course will take you through Thailand's fast-paced tech-heavy capital city of Bangkok, and Cambodia's culture-rich capital of Phnom Penh. Each city has their own unique political, socio-economic and environmental opportunities and challenges. With 5 days in each country, you will work with local innovators and social entrepreneurs by engaging in design sprints to work on real-time challenges. Why not learn and help the world out a bit too?

    • Alumni Voices.

      130 + DSIL Course Alumni from over 55+ countries and counting!

      "One of the things I find so amazing about my participation in DSIL was the degree to which I have been able to take the learning and relationships and immediately apply them within my teaching and my private executive education/coaching/consulting work. The depth of the learning and collaboration I know engage in has increased significantly. I've been to MANY trainings in my career, and rarely (if ever) have I found a course so impactful and immediately useful. DSIL has been an excellent investment for me with returns in knowledge, skills and important relationships."

      - Dr. Sherwood, Director, IDEA Institute

      The DSIL Course taught me much more than d.thinking. It taught me how to become a more resilient leader and to re-connect with my personal goals for this crazy and beautiful planet. "

      - Hanna Ruddies, Global Growth and Acceleration Lead, Impact Hub

    • Who Joins the DSIL Course?

      YOU! The DSIL Course prides itself on diversity. With 130+ Alumni from over 55+ countries, the DSIL Course attracts a global group of high performing leaders from multiple industries. Past alumni include CEOs, entrepreneurs, leaders at Shell, Salesforce, UNDP, IBM, Deloitte, and the Asian Development Bank. The age of our alumni networks ranges from 26 to 60 years old and includes people of all educational backgrounds.

       

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