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Navigating Innovation in Times of Transformation - Executive Education

Fact sheet

Graduation
Executive Education

Taught language
Englisch

Specialization
Digital Transformation, Innovation

Program Emphasis
Design Thinking, Unternehmenswandel

Course options
Certificate program

Locations
Berlin

Gain practical skills and a double-certificate from ESMT Berlin and HPI d-school

Do you want to drive continuous innovation for your organization while staying up to speed with constant change?

This interactive, hands-on workshop can show you the practical, tangible steps to making a lasting impact – while also granting you a double certificate from ESMT Berlin and HPI d-school.

A collaboration between ESMT Berlin and HPI d-school (Hasso Plattner Institute), Navigating Innovation in Times of Transformation teaches participants to employ change leadership strategies, while also equipping them with a core design thinking mindset that powers confident decision-making.

Participants explore practical ways to combine transformation, innovation, and leadership, helping them advance user-centered growth in fast-changing and uncertain environments. 

  • Learn to develop innovative, customer-centric solutions through real-world leadership challenges, team-based prototyping, and user interviews.
  • Gain practical experience applying design thinking along the full value chain – from empathy and ideation to testing, refining, and pitching.
  • Discover change leadership strategies that can help build alliances, overcome organizational resistance, and create internal momentum for new initiatives.
  • Understand how to foster a culture of innovation and effectively communicate change stories to stakeholders.
  • Make more confident decisions during times of upheaval by strengthening your entrepreneurial toolkit.
Participants benefit from the unique expertise of both institutions: the HPI d-school brings deep knowledge in design thinking and innovation culture, while ESMT Berlin provides actionable insights on change management and organizational transformation. The program culminates in a double certificate from both ESMT Berlin and HPI d-school.

Program Emphasis

  • The changing landscape of innovation: customer centricity as the driving factor.
  • Applying design thinking methods to a real challenge from the business world.
  • Conducting interviews with customers and stakeholders.
  • Tools for implementing organizational change: discussion of potential hurdles and pitfalls.
  • Communication techniques and best practices of stakeholder management.
  • Communicating change stories and dealing with resistance.
  • Gaining insights from users of products and services.
  • Understanding how to foster an innovation culture and make impactful leadership decisions in uncertain environments. 

Important Dates

Next Intake

May 04-06, 2026
Dec 09-11, 2026

Tuition / Fees

€3,900

Participants

  • You are a manager, team lead, or executive working to advance customer-centric transformation in your organization.
  • You are an innovation leader or changemaker looking for fresh approaches to organizational development.
  • You aim to improve and support collaboration and innovation across departments.

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