Design Sprint Academy

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Your ultimate AI Design Sprint coach. Elevate your design sprints from planning to execution and beyond.

Design Sprint Master GPT

As a product manager, you’re constantly balancing discovery with the need to make confident, informed decisions—while aligning stakeholder demands, supporting your design and development teams, and staying ahead of the competition. To truly differentiate yourself, you need to make strategic choices and guide your teams toward user-centric solutions that drive business impact and minimize development risk. This means you need a reliable, scalable process to uncover real user needs and consistently find the best solutions—enter Design Sprints. This course equips you with the hands-on skills and confidence to lead impactful Design Sprints in-house, transforming the way you and your team solve problems. We've distilled a decade of experience conducting Design Sprints for top brands and training elite teams into this program. You’ll gain direct insights from firsthand case studies and learn from seasoned experts, taking away practical tools, reusable templates, and facilitation techniques ready to implement with your team. This is more than a beginner’s guide—it’s a masterclass designed to elevate your facilitation skills and help you confidently lead sprints that replace business-as-usual routines with user-driven insights and effective solutions. By the end of the course, you’ll not only be equipped to run your own sprints but also make a compelling case to sponsors, demonstrating the value of low-cost, high-impact sprints that seamlessly integrate into agile workflows. And who knows, you might even position yourself as a go-to leader in innovation facilitation, setting the stage for your next career move.

Align teams. Meet customer needs. De-risk your product roadmap.

Course syllabus

4x interactive live sessions over 2 weeks - each session is ⏰ 3 hours long, with breaks every 50 minutes for optimal focus. 2025 Dates<ul><li>January 21st</li><li>January 23rd</li><li>January 28th</li><li>January 31st</li></ul>

Tuesdays & Thursdays

Course schedule

For the Strategic Product Manager who needs a clear, repeatable process to validate user-centered solutions quickly

For the Innovation Manager or Team Lead who wants to build alignment across cross-functional teams

For the Agile Coach or Consultant who wants to become a go-to expert in Design Sprint facilitation

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to identify, define, and validate compelling value propositions that directly align with user needs, minimizing wasted resources and maximizing product-market fit.

Create new value propositions that address real user needs - reduce the risk of building the wrong product

Gain the skills to leverage AI for fast, functional prototypes that look and feel real, allowing for quick user testing and feedback without extensive resources—helping you iterate faster and lower development risk.

Build AI-powered prototypes quickly and cost-effectively

Nothing accelerates skill and confidence like real practice under expert supervision. Master each stage of the <a href="https://www.designsprint.academy/blog/what-is-a-design-sprint" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Design Sprint</a> by experiencing it firsthand as a hands-on facilitator.

Gain real facilitation experience - hands-on practice as a Design Sprint Facilitator

Our Design Sprint Facilitation Toolkits (both <a href="https://www.designsprint.academy/product/remote-sprint-facilitation-kit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">remote</a> and <a href="https://www.designsprint.academy/product/design-sprint-facilitation-kit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">in-person</a>) include Presentation Decks, Miro boards, Agendas, Checklists, Design Sprint Briefs, and Sprint Replay Reports, providing you with all the resources to lead impactful sprints from day one.

Walk away with a ready-to-use Facilitation Toolkits for in-person and remote Design Sprints

Lead Design Sprints like a ⚡️PRO - de-risk ideas, validate user-centered solutions, and secure stakeholder buy-in for your next 🚀launch.

John Vetan

Top Design Sprint leader | trainer to Google, SAP, Deloitte, eBay & 3,000+ pros

How Design Sprints Solve Biggest Product Manager Challenges

Trained 3000+ PMs at Google, Amazon, eBay, etc.  
20 years of product experience

Struggling with constant shifts in stakeholder priorities? Learn how to lead conversations and bring order to chaos.

Turn stakeholder chaos into alignment

Foster focused, high-energy teamwork by aligning cross-functional teams to solve problems together and avoid rework.

Get your team working together, efficiently

Align everyone on a well-defined problem and path forward while staying responsive to business needs.

Keep your roadmap intact, even with new ideas

Quickly prototype and test with real users to validate ideas, make confident decisions to keep your team moving forward.

Make faster, user-centric decisions without endless meeting

Integrate Design Sprints integrate into your workflow, delivering immediate results without disrupting existing process.

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Design Sprint Academy

Courses

Design Sprint Masterclass for Product Managers

Lightning Lessons

How Design Sprints Solve Biggest Product Manager Challenges

Resources

Design Sprint Master GPT