Ignite innovation by unlocking your team’s creative potential
Transform your organization into a cutting-edge producer of powerful experiences by nominating members of your team for the 10-month, low-residency Experience Design Certificate Program by Odyssey Works.
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Transform Your Team Into Pioneering Experience Designers
Build a Reputation for Delivering Exceptional Experiences
Develop a Culture of Innovation and Empathy
CAN YOUR TEAM KEEP UP?
Experience-centered organizations and their teams face constant pressure to innovate and remain competitive.
LETTING YOUR ORGANIZATION FALL BEHIND PUTS YOUR TEAM AT RISK FOR:
Being overwhelmed & stressed due the demands of quality work on tight deadlines
Ineffective collaboration due to a lack of shared vocabulary and methodology
Missed opportunities and unrealized potential, leading to frustration and disappointment
“YOU HELPED ME FIND MY PURPOSE”
We believe you can be a revolutionary leader who inspires and mentors your team to create electrifying experiences.
Empower Your Team.
Elevate Your Organization.
Transform Our World.
Investing in your team's growth and development is vital to ensuring the long-term success of your organization. We understand the challenges team leads face in providing comprehensive and effective training for their team members. The Experience Design Certificate Program will empower your team members to create intentional experiences that stand out above the noise.
Odyssey Works has been at the forefront of transformative experience design for over two decades and has worked with employees at Facebook, Apple, Nike, The Stanford D-School, and countless others. With our program, you will gain access to the expertise of our experienced instructors, Abraham Burickson and Ayden LeRoux, who have written the books that define the field, lectured and led workshops at some of the most prestigious universities and organizations worldwide.
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Transform your team's design skills to create experiences that change lives.
The Experience Design Certificate Program provides a broadly applicable and rigorous design methodology that moves beyond Human-Centered Design to equip your team with the tools they need to create innovative experiences.
Delivered by the experienced professionals who wrote the book on experience design, our program offers personalized education with mentorship, feedback, and community building. Our certification process sets your team apart as experts in the field and unlocks substantial career growth, giving you a competitive edge in the market.
With a proven track record of success, our graduates have gone on to get promotions, secure funding and large grants to produce their work, and grown their organizations substantially within months of certification.
By nominating your designers for our program, you are investing in the future success of your organization. Collaborating with the only program of its kind, you’ll set your team apart as experts in the field, giving you a competitive edge in the market.
Program ethos
Our program is for those who share our values in practical and rigorous work with a high conceptual impact. It is an investment in transforming the designer and the organization to create long-term employees with a cutting-edge understanding of this field.
Take the first step towards unlocking your team's full potential by nominating them for the Experience Design Certificate Program today.
Revolutionize Your Team in 3 Steps
Nominate
Fill out the application to reserve seats for chosen nominees, and we’ll schedule a call to learn more about your organization and goals.
2023 Applications due by October 1
PARTICIPATE
We transform your team's skills, build future leaders, and leave a lasting impact in 10 months.
PIONEER
Elevate your organization's success with a certified experience designer on your team who can create intentional experiences and foster a culture of innovation and creativity.
Designed for Working Professionals
An intense, hybrid program designed for working professionals
By creating intentional experiences, your organization will stand out in your industry, attracting and retaining top talent. Our students join us for 3 class hours per week, and bring the challenges they face with their professional projects to our program.Establishing clear, tested practices across disciplines
We’re defining experience design by establishing clear, tested practices across disciplines. We are to experience design, what IDEO is to design-thinking. 20 years of experience design distilled into one program
A proven track record of success
Our graduates have secured multiple grants and funding, been featured on the radio, earned promotions at top companies like Meow Wolf and seen agencies double their growth. Personalized education that replaces useless team development
The high-touch, personalized education offered at the Experience Design Certificate Program not only rededicates students to their work but offers specific toolsets for creating collaborative purpose-driven workplace communities effectively replacing one-off team buildings.
Praise
“This program was truly life-changing for me. [It] helped me gain the words and wisdom to better emphasize the importance of the experience being the key driver. I have better words for grounding my audience (of other producers, directors, designers, developers) in what's important to the project but also to them.”
— Jerome Morrison, Experience Designer, Meow WolfSchedule
Two Retreats. Weekly classes in small groups. One-on-one Mentorship. Career and Personal Transformation.
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10 months, Feb–Nov 2024$11k tuition 10-15 students per cohort10 hours per week
Students will take a weekly course online and receive mentorship from Abraham Burickson and Ayden LeRoux. The program will be bookended by in-person weekend intensives, the first in Baltimore and the second in New York City. Students will leave the program with two completed portfolio projects.
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Retreat 1
Feb 2-4, 2023
Baltimore
SESSION 1
FEBRUARY–MAY
Weekly Classes Online
Students will be sorted into one of two cohorts that meet the same day every week and are assigned upon acceptance. You may note on your application if you are unavailable for one of the slots. Classes are Tuesdays 2-5 pm EST, or Wednesday 12-3 pm EST.
RESEARCH SESSION
JUNE–AUGUST
Lived Research Session
Self-directed, with weekly accountability group meetings.
SESSION 2
SEPTEMBER–NOVEMBER
Weekly Classes Online
Tuesdays 2-5 pm EST or Wednesday 12-3 pm EST.
Public presentation
NOVEMBER 22-25, 2024
New York City
Final projects will be presented to an invited public in New York City. Certificates awarded.
the Experience Design Certificate Program
Nominate Your Team Member & Kickstart Your Organization’s Transformation
FAQs
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The Experience Design Certificate Program is a 10-month, low-residency program designed to transform an organization into a cutting-edge producer of powerful experiences by nominating members of their team.
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The program offers personalized education with mentorship, feedback, and community building. It provides a broadly applicable and rigorous design methodology that equips the team with the tools they need to create innovative experiences.
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The experienced instructors for the program are Abraham Burickson and Ayden LeRoux, who have written the books that define the field and have lectured and led workshops at some of the most prestigious universities and organizations worldwide.
We also bring prominent industry and arts figures as guest instructors, providing invaluable interaction and feedback to our students. Visit our instructors' page to discover these remarkable individuals shaping the program's excellence.
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We believe in transformational education which plants seeds of transformation in organizations by creating leaders with a cutting-edge understanding of the field.
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Tuition includes books and a materials stipend for each portfolio project. Students are responsible for their own travel and accommodations for the weekend intensives.
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Simply fill out the application to reserve seats for chosen nominees and Odyssey Works will schedule a call to learn more about the organization and goals. Nominate any time, but 2024 applications are due by October 2.
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In this brief info session, an Odyssey Works co-director will introduce the Experience Design Certificate Program and answer questions you might have about it. They will discuss the cadence of the year, the portfolio material you will produce, and the application process. They will also discuss the two BIPOC scholarships and the work-study positions. Most of the time will be allotted to questions from attendees.
Register here for August 8, 12-1:30 pm EST.
Sign up here to attend on September 13, 5:30-7 pm EST.
