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Programme Fee (Residential) Early Bird Fee: ₹95,850 + GST Regular Fee: ₹1,06,500 + GST |
Programme Fee (Non-Residential) Early Bird Fee: ₹81,000 + GST Regular Fee: ₹90,000 + GST |
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This programme is designed for senior leaders who:
Mr. Shashidhara C S
Mob: 7899991576
Email: shashidhara.cs@iimb.ac.in
“The future belongs to those who can design it, and in an era shaped by complexity, leaders leveraging a design thinking mindset – which integrates empathy, ideation and collaboration – will be the drivers of user-focused innovation with genuine impact”
Dr. Ramya Ranganathan
Programme Overview:
Design Thinking for Leaders is an Executive Education programme from IIM Bangalore designed to help senior leaders, business executives and innovation professionals solve complex business challenges using human-centred design. By combining empathy, creativity, experimentation and strategic thinking, the programme enables leaders to drive innovation, improve customer experiences and build future-ready organisations.
Today’s leaders operate in an environment defined by rapid technological change, shifting customer expectations and increasing business complexity. Traditional approaches to problem-solving are often insufficient to address these evolving challenges.
Design Thinking is a human-centred approach to innovation that enables leaders to understand user needs, redefine problems, generate creative ideas and test solutions through rapid experimentation.
The Design Thinking for Leaders programme at IIM Bangalore provides a structured, hands-on learning experience that equips participants with practical tools and frameworks to solve complex business problems, improve customer experiences and drive strategic innovation within their organisations.
Programme Objective:
The Design Thinking for Leaders programme aims to equip senior leaders and business professionals with the mindset, tools and practical frameworks required to solve complex business challenges through human-centred innovation. Participants will learn how to apply Design Thinking principles to understand customer and stakeholder needs, generate creative solutions, test ideas rapidly and lead innovation with confidence.
By the end of the programme, participants will be able to:
Key Takeaways:
Upon successful completion of the Design Thinking for Leaders programme, participants will be able to:
Professor Sai Yayavaram
Prof. Sai Yayavaram is a Professor in the Strategy Area at IIM Bangalore. Prior to joining IIM Bangalore, he was with the National University of Singapore for 9 years. He received his PhD in Strategic Management from The University of Texas at Austin, PGDM (MBA) from IIM Ahmedabad and B.Tech from IIT Madras. He worked as a Consultant in Tata Strategic Management Group, Bombay from 1994-98.
Prof. Yayavaram currently teaches an elective course on corporate strategy to MBA students at IIM Bangalore. As part of Executive Education, he has conducted programmes in strategic management and innovation for several organizations.
His research focuses on technology and innovation management, complexity and strategic rents and has been published in top-tier international journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal and Organization Science. He is currently a Member of the Editorial Review Boards of Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science and Global Strategy Journal.
Dr. Ramya Ranganathan
Visiting Faculty, IIM Bangalore
Poet, Parent, Professor, Philosopher – Dr. Ramya stands for inner sovereignty and outer excellence. She practices and teaches an inside-out approach that empowers leaders and changemakers to live, work, and lead with joy, resilience, and powerful intention.
Dr. Ramya holds a B.Tech in Electronics from IIT Madras, a PGDM from IIM Ahmedabad and a PhD from London Business School. She has been recognized by the MHRD (Govt of India) in the top 15 innovators in higher education in India, has received an Academy of Management Best Paper Award, has delivered three TED Talks, and is on the Advisory Board of Samatvam, Centre for Mindfulness at IIM Bodhgaya.
She has worked in blue-chip companies like ICICI, Infosys and Citibank, and it was her own experiences in the corporate world that shaped her quest to learn how she could help people flourish better at work. Post her PhD in Organizational Behaviour, she taught as a full-time faculty at IIM Bangalore for a decade, during which time she further researched and developed a systematic approach to catalyze joyful excellence in individuals and organizations.
A globally certified life and leadership coach, Dr. Ramya has conducted workshops and coaching for more than 50 blue-chip organizations and has multiple courses online on edX, IIMBx and SWAYAM platforms. She is certified in Coaching with Depth Methodology (by IIT Madras and PeopleFirst Consulting), Life and Leadership Coaching (by Coach for Life Institute, USA and Back to Source, India), Pranic Psychotherapy (by World Pranic Healing Foundation), Reiki, Access Consciousness, and the Yogic approach to holistic development (by SVYASA University).
A maverick academic, Dr. Ramya now combines her research, corporate, teaching and coaching experience with a mix of mind-body personal mastery tools (learnt and honed over a period of 20 years) to craft potent journeys of transformation. She uses a combination of left-brained logic, right-brained reflection, heart-based presence and energy-based activations to help her students shift mindsets, unpack limiting beliefs and open gateways to new possibilities.
She has published a book of poems titled I’m Choosing Life, runs a YouTube channel, and has created the platform www.craftingourlives.com to share her work with the world.
Programme Fee
INR 1,06,500/- Residential and INR 90,000/- Non -Residential (+ Applicable GST) per person for participants from India and its equivalent in US Dollars for participants from other countries.
Early Bird Discount
Nominations received with payments on or before 16-Nov-26 will be entitled to an early bird Discount of 10%.
Early Bird Fee (Residential INR 95,850/-(+ Applicable GST)
Early Bird Fee (Non-Residential) INR 81,000/- (+ Applicable GST)
Group Discount
Group Discount of 5% percentage can be availed for a group of 3 or more participants when nominations received from the same organization.
Please Note
Participant Benefits
As a participant of this Short Duration Programme, you will be able to enjoy some exclusive benefits other than the outcomes such as skills and knowledge enhancement and building specific competencies that can help shape your career growth.
Some of the exclusive benefits of attending this programme are listed below –
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