3 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Lead Design Sprints like a ⚡️PRO - de-risk ideas, validate user-centered solutions, and secure stakeholder buy-in for your next 🚀launch.
3 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Lead Design Sprints like a ⚡️PRO - de-risk ideas, validate user-centered solutions, and secure stakeholder buy-in for your next 🚀launch.
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Course overview
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.
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For the Strategic Product Manager who needs a clear, repeatable process to validate user-centered solutions quickly
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For the Innovation Manager or Team Lead who wants to build alignment across cross-functional teams
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For the Agile Coach or Consultant who wants to become a go-to expert in Design Sprint facilitation
Create new value propositions that address real user needs - reduce the risk of building the wrong product
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.
Build AI-powered prototypes quickly and cost-effectively
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.
Gain real facilitation experience - hands-on practice as a Design Sprint Facilitator
Nothing accelerates skill and confidence like real practice under expert supervision. Master each stage of the Design Sprint by experiencing it firsthand as a hands-on facilitator.
Walk away with a ready-to-use Facilitation Toolkits for in-person and remote Design Sprints
4 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
13 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
Projects to apply learnings
Guided feedback & reflection
Private community of peers
Course certificate upon completion
Maven Satisfaction Guarantee
This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.
Design Sprint Masterclass for Product Managers
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Audrey Watanabe
Felix Wang
Mark Niel Sy
Seamus Galvin
Kris Wahl
Ivan Karacic
Top Design Sprint leader | trainer to Google, SAP, Deloitte, eBay & 3,000+ pros
John Vetan, co-founder of Design Sprint Academy, is a leading expert in product innovation with over 20 years of hands-on experience.
After launching the world’s first Design Sprint Training in 2016, he set a new standard for tackling complex product challenges.
John has since led Google’s official Sprint Chapters in London and Berlin, spoken at Google Sprint Conferences, and trained global brands like eBay, Roche, Swift, SAP, and Mattel. As both a practitioner and educator, he shares real-world methods—not abstract theory—that rapidly validate ideas, reduce risk, and keep customer focus at the core of product development.
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Cohort 1
$1,500
Dates
Application Deadline
Total 12 hours of live sessions
Tuesdays & Thursdays
8:00am PST / 4:00pm DST / 5:00pm EST/
4x interactive live sessions over 2 weeks - each session is ⏰ 3 hours long, with breaks every 50 minutes for optimal focus.
2025 Dates
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Active hands-on Facilitation
Take on the role of the Facilitator and put theory into action right away. Practicing as you learn helps skills stick.
Interactive and project-based
You’ll work with other learners in breakout rooms and project teams, building real-world skills while developing a new product aimed at boosting profitability.
Facilitation Toolkits
Gain access to the internal tools used by top experts at Design Sprint Academy with their clients. These toolkits will help you easily repeat and scale the Design Sprint process.
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Join an upcoming cohort
Cohort 1
$1,500
Dates
Application Deadline