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Unlock Your Design Leadership Potential

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Unlock Your Design Leadership Potential

Explore our courses

iF DESIGN ACADEMY
Learn to lead with purpose and impact

Design Leadership can be a powerful force to drive positive change. Our courses equip you with the skills, knowledge and community to fully realize that potential.

Through our tailored courses you’ll advance your leadership, strategic capabilities and business savviness – ready to lead the future of design.

The next courses are about to start:

Advancing Your Design Leadership
Starting: 28 January 2026

Expanding Organizational Influence
Starting: 29 January 2026

Leading Business Beyond Design
Starting: 6 February 2026

Mastering Design Leadership Fundamentals
Starting: 26 February 2026

Elevating Your Design Team
Starting: 7 April 2026

Join the iF DESIGN ACADEMY to…
1.

Discover courses
tailored to you

Our courses are specifically
curated by and for design leaders.

2.

Enter a global network
of design leaders

Become part of a community of
leading design experts.

3.

Connect and exchange
with your community

Learn from like-minded peers
in a dedicated cohort.

4.

Advance your
global reputation

An iF DESIGN ACADEMY certificate
is a mark of excellence.

5.

Create meaningful change

Our courses foster values-based
leadership to drive sustainable impact.

6.

Stay future-ready

Our future-proof courses
keep up with an ever-changing world.

What you will achieve
with us

We focus on what today’s design leaders need most. Business know-how. Personal growth. And a forward-looking mindset to lead with purpose and shape a better future.
Our courses will prepare you for the real demands of design leadership, including setting direction, building strong teams, and working confidently at the crossover of design and business.

Meet our graduates

Discover how our course participants have evolved into confident design leaders and take the next step in their careers.

Sachin Nediya Parambath

Associate design director at frog about Mastering Design Leadership Fundamentals:
“Attending this course was an enriching experience combining inspiring guest speakers, practical tools, and meaningful peer exchange. A safe learning space and well-designed tasks made it engaging and directly applicable to daily leadership work.”

Anne Racioppi

UX Program Manager - Google about Expanding Organizational Influence:
"I’m grateful to have this course because it’s meeting me exactly where I am in my career journey. It feels wonderful to have the guidance and toolkit by such an experienced teacher as Doug. Looking forward to the remainder of the course!"

Stefan Markiewicz

Team Lead Product Design - Team Viewer about Elevating Your Design Team:
"As a new design lead, this cohort provided clear frameworks to boost our team’s impact. Assignments reflected real in-house challenges, while lectures balanced strategy and practical tools. Exchanging ideas with an international group of experienced peers brought fresh perspectives, confidence, actionable insights."

Want all course information at a glance? Request the flyer now!

Leave your contact and you will receive the compact course flyer via email.

Gain strategic insight from visionary Design Leaders

We work with design and business industry experts to develop and adapt our courses, giving you the essential skills for an ever-changing world.

Meet the team

Gain strategic insight from visionary Design Leaders

We work with design and business industry experts to develop and adapt our courses, giving you the essential skills for an ever-changing world.

Meet the team

Alice Katter

Andy Polaine

Tiffany Chen

Tey Bannerman

Doug Powell

Kim Dabbs

Peter Merholz

Garen Kouyoumjian

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