Cohort 8

Instead of spinning your wheels, follow a step-by-step process to determine what you value and plan your next move.

Simone Stolzoff

Designing Your Next Career Step

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The Atlantic

Penguin Random House

Design Thinking is a creative approach to finding clarity amidst ambiguity. In this course, you'll be guided through how to apply Design Thinking to your own career exploration. The course itself is broken down into four sessions: Ground, Diverge, Converge, and Plan which will help you articulate your values, explore the career possibilities available to you, design experiments to figure out what you want, and plan your short, medium, and long-term next steps. You'll walk away with more confidence about what you want next and a roadmap for how to get there.

Clarify what you want with the help of Design Thinking

Curious explorers who are ready for a change in their life but aren't clear on exactly what they're looking for

Overworked professionals who move a mile-a-minute but don't have the space to take a step back and reflect

Passionate generalists who feel pulled in multiple directions but aren't sure which path they want to choose

Who is this course for

Key outcomes

The North Star of this course is for you to go from messiness to clarity. We'll explore different frameworks for clarifying your personal values and career possibilities. You will walk away with conviction for what you really want from the next step in your work and life

A clear vision for the next step in your work/life

This course is actionable. From day one you will be envisioning, prototyping, and refining your path. You will leave with an air-tight action plan for the steps to take to keep progressing and resources that you can return to throughout your career.

An action plan with the short, medium, and long-term steps to achieve your vision

Accountability is everything. In this course you will connect with other folks who are in similar places on the journey. The relationships you form will extend long beyond the last day of class.

A vibrant community of other ambitious professionals to hold you accountable

In the course, you will receive a workbook filled with evergreen exercises, reflection prompts, and resources that you can dust off whenever you find yourself at a similar crossroads.

A buffet of research, exercises, and resources that you can return to again and again

Our course starts by grounding in where you're at today. Through a series of exercises, you'll reflect on your unique values, career experiences, and visions for your future. By the end, you'll be able to clearly articulate what matters most to you in your next step.

Ground

This session is all about going wide. You'll canvas out three potential paths for yourself, quiet your inner critic, and ask what would have to be true in order to pursue each. By the end, you'll have three distinct paths and a research plan.

Diverge

This session is all about making decisions. You'll synthesize what you've learned from your research and address some of your fears in making changes in your life. By the end, you'll clarify the direction you want to keep exploring.

Converge

Here's where the rubber meets the road. You'll make an action plan with short, medium, and long-term goals, and find accountability within the rest of the group. We'll talk about addressing the inevitable barriers along the way, and you'll leave with clarity and conviction for what's next.

Course syllabus

Director of Content at Humu and best-selling author of No Hard Feelings

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Meet your instructor

Our course starts by grounding in where you are. Through a series of exercises, you'll reflect on your values, career experiences, and visions for your future. By the end, you'll be able to articulate what matters to you in your next step. *All live sessions will be recorded.

Module 1: Ground

Module 2: Diverge

Module 3: Converge

Here's where the rubber meets the road. You'll make an action plan with short, medium, and long-term goals, and design methods of accountability. We'll talk about addressing the inevitable barriers along the way, and you'll leave with clarity and conviction for what's next.

Module 4: Plan

Almost all coursework will take place during the live sessions, but there will be optional resources to continue exploring outside of class. *There will also be the (optional) opportunity to meet 1:1 with Simone

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Course schedule

Join a network of fellow explorers from companies like Google, Pinterest, and Meta

Though exploring what we want from our careers is vital, we rarely invest the time and effort to do so

Invest in your future self

This course is full of custom hands-on exercises like the Career Paths Canvas that will give structure to your exploration

Active learning, not passive watching

Join a community of like-minded people from companies like Google, Pinterest, and Meta

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