It takes a new kind of leader to innovate and create strategic solutions for an increasingly complex, interconnected world.
Accelerate Change
The Leading by Design Fellows Program at California College of the Art (CCA) provides executives and senior professionals the insights, skills, and confidence to lead change that creates lasting, sustainable business and social value.
The Breakthrough Program for Today's Leaders
CCA’s Leading by Design Fellows Program brings together the most vital disciplines, mindsets, and skills you need to drive real, transformative change:
Design thinking
Business strategy
Leadership
Sustainability
Graduates of the Fellows program receive a Certificate in Innovation Leadership.
CCA is one of the world’s leading colleges of art and design. Building on its legacy as an innovator, CCA is also creating breakthroughs in business education.
Through our Leading by Design Fellows Program and our MBA in Design Strategy program, CCA is at the forefront of training the current and next generation of business leaders to design the best possibilities for the future.
Expand and Sharpen the Skills That Count
Develop and refine the skills and mindsets you need to be better positioned as an innovative leader and change agent within your organization and field.
- Gain the understanding and advanced skills to embed sustainability and systems-thinking principles into the design and management of business structures and processes, products, services, and business models
- Learn cutting-edge techniques for customer and design research, branding and messaging, and innovation implementation
- Enhance leadership skills to generate results, build excellence, and create meaningful value
- Deepen critical-reasoning abilities to distill and prioritize needs and goals for better decision making and think and lead farther and faster
- Develop and hone entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial skills for innovation
- Boost communication visual, written, oral skills for more effective management and engagement
Work with the Best, Surpass your Best
Each highly interactive, hands-on residency combines lectures, presentation, and discussions with experts in their fields, exercises in applying techniques, and lab time for projects.
In addition to CCA faculty from the MBA in Design Strategy and Design programs, we feature visionary guest faculty:
- Tim Brown, CEO, IDEO
- Bob Dunham, founder of Enterprise Performance and CEO of the Generative Leadership Institute
- Gil Friend, CEO Natural Logic, author of The Truth about Green Business
- Kaaren Hanson, VP of Design, Intuit
- Chris Conley, CEO, Gravity Tank
- Adam Werbach, Chief Sustainability Office, Saatchi & Saatchi S, and author of Strategy for Sustainability
Between residencies, participants collaborate with faculty and peers online via discussions, readings, and webinars that build on concepts from one residency to the next.
A Distinguished Network
Graduates are designated California College of the Arts Leading by Design Fellows, an elite, growing community of business leaders and changemakers.
Fellows also join the larger CCA alumni network for graduates of the MBA in Design Strategy.
Potential Fellows
Potential Fellows should be executives or senior managers who are currently in or advancing into leadership positions of increasing responsibility.
The 2013 Fellows Program begins June 6, 2013, and meets one weekend (Friday and Saturday) per month through November 2013. Applications are currently being accepted. The program is based on the CCA San Francisco campus.
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The future of business starts today. Your future starts here. Apply now!
(Please note: The Leading by Design Fellows Program is neither a degree program, nor does it award CEU credits. For questions regarding financing options, please contact Leading by Design Fellows Program Director Susan Worthman at sworthman@cca.edu.)