ID Executive Academy

Is your team ready for tomorrow?

The Institute of Design (ID) Executive Academy builds on more than 85 years of pioneering design practice to transform organizations through practitioner-led, work-integrated learning.

Today, your team builds capacity and develops its own collaborative culture by applying design to actual business challenges.

Tomorrow, your team is ready to work together seamlessly to carve out new opportunities and create new offerings.

Our Partners

A Network of Future-Facing Organizations

We have driven measurable impact for a range of organizations and industry leaders, including Autodesk, FedEx, Ford, Grainger, Hitachi, Nestle, Northwestern Mutual, Purina, Steelcase, UChicago Medicine, and United Airlines—organizations that understand design as a strategic asset.

Design-Driven Leadership

Across industries and continents, a new kind of leadership is emerging that welcomes change, greets challenge, and creates distinct value. This is design-driven leadership.

Design-driven leaders navigate complexity through systems fluency, human-centered insight, and rapid prototyping. But they don’t do it alone—they do it by transforming their teams.

Team-Focused Learning

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Train your team to think like designers, act like strategists, and lead like systems changers.

Team by team, organization by organization, the ID Executive Academy is where we teach future-facing organizations how to deliver today—perform—and carve out new opportunities for tomorrow—transform.

Developing the dexterity to do both, at the same time, is an imperative in today’s rapidly changing environment.

How We Work with Partners

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Practitioner Faculty

Learn from International Design Leaders

Your teams learn directly from ID faculty, practitioners who have an average of 23 years of cross-industry experience.

Rather than focusing on theoretical presentations, our practitioner faculty guide you through active and grounded projects with real-world applications.

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Tony is the best of both worlds. He’s fluent in the language of business and how corporate leaders measure success. But he also has a deep appreciation for the unique ways design can accelerate innovation and contribute to the financial bottom line.

—Mike Sales, Digital Transformation and Innovation Lead, Duke Energy