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Royal College of Art Executive Education masterclasses and workshops provide senior-level professionals with critical business skills, covering topics such as design thinking, creative leadership and service design.
Design Thinking & Innovation in Collaboration with the Design Museum
17 & 18 October 2022 (on campus)
6, 7, 10 & 11 October 2022 (online)
Creative Strategies for the Future of Work
3, 4, 7 & 8 November 2022 (online)
Human-Centred Design for Intelligent Mobility
22, 23 & 24 February 2023 (online)
Creative Leadership
14 & 15 September 2022 (on campus) FULLY BOOKED
Unleashing Innovation
New dates to be announced soon
Co-Designing Innovation
New dates to be announced soon
Open for Innovation
The Executive Education programme invites you to meet faculty members in person at the Open for Innovation half day workshop and networking opportunity as part of London Design Festival on 20 September 2022. Find out more and sign up to attend here.
“Learning how co-creation can boost your workforce, change the whole company mindset, improve collaboration and bring user to the center stage was mind-blowing. We need more of that in the world. Innovation is just one crazy eight away.”
“I got usable and relevant insights to apply at my work space. I learned how to communicate complex topics in a more precise and understandable manner through the combination of human centred design and business thinking.”
“The presentations blended design-thinking approaches and practical examples and focused on the responsibility of service designers”
“I enjoyed interacting with a wide variety of people united by a desire to make things. better for customers”
“This experience helped me realise that diversity fuels innovation. I learnt that together we could come up with new ideas that can offer maximum value to our customers.”
“I learned new tools and new design methodologies that will definitely add value to my career and years to come. I can't wait to implement these learnings in future challenges!”
Executive Education online
Register your interest for our executive education masterclasses.
Find out more about Custom Executive Education.
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About Executive Education
Key benefits
- World-class professional and personal development
- Advanced level lectures and seminars by RCA academic faculty who teach on the postgraduate degree programmes
- Notable guest speakers and professional practitioners connected to industry
- Real time interaction with the course leaders to exchange ideas and receive feedback
- Learn about the RCA's most recent case studies and practices
- Opportunity to collaborate and connect with an international network of peers
- Business critical skills essential for the twenty-first century
- Certificate of achievement on completion.
The World Economic Forum ‘Future of Jobs’ research report highlighted that by 2022, in the context of technological advances including AI, ‘human’ skills such as creativity, critical thinking and empathy will be among the top three most important business skills.
Teaching and learning methodologies
- “Learning by doing” drawing upon the ethos of the RCA studio context, an immersive space where interdisciplinary and creativity push the boundaries of innovation
- Teaching via a mixture of case studies, lectures, and small group exercises, you’ll gain the strategies, tools, and insights to solve your most challenging problems
- Clear, simple digital technologies and flexible learning models to enable our participants to navigate e-learning with the guidance and support of our expert faculty.
Online delivery
Our online short courses, masterclasses and workshops are organised in synchronous sessions in a live virtual environment.
Participants:
- engage with the RCA’s esteemed academics and facilitators via the audio and video conferencing service Zoom
- access resources on the College's learning platform Moodle
- work with peers in breakout rooms in real time using visual collaboration tools such as Miro.
On campus delivery
Certain short courses may be delivered face to face at our campuses in London.
Covid-19
RCA Short Courses will continue to monitor the Covid-19 situation in the period up to the course dates.
Our planning incorporates the latest UK Government guidance as well as consideration of how best to ensure a safe and inclusive learning space for participants and staff team.
Our participants health, wellbeing and quality of experience while attending our on-campus courses is paramount to us.
Full details of the Covid safe guidelines in place for the course will be provided to you in advance of your start date with your welcome information.
Disclaimer: Change to online delivery
It may be necessary due to Covid-19 restrictions to change the mode of delivery to live online or postpone to a later date.
We will endeavour to notify all participants in advance of any changes, no later than 2 weeks before the course start date.
Terms & conditions apply.
Join a network of global peers
Our courses are an opportunity to collaborate with a global network of peers.
We have been running these courses for more than 5 years and have attracted a high calibre individuals and organisations from over 60 countries.
Past participant industries include:
- financial services, technology, manufacturing, healthcare, education, consulting, pharmaceuticals, advertising/marketing, museums, education, artists and designers.
Past companies include:
- Adidas, AstraZeneca, BAA plc, BBC, Bertelsmann, Dentsu, European Broadcasting Union, Facebook, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, GlaxoSmithKline, Google, HSBC, Hong Kong Civil Service Bureau, IBM, ITOCHU, J.P. Morgan, Medronic, Panasonic, PwC, Samsung, Sharjah Art Foundation, Singapore Airlines, Sony, Statoil, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, and more.
Custom short courses and executive education
Our experts can develop custom executive education programmes for business, government, the public sector and universities globally.
Many of our existing open executive education and short courses can be adapted, combined or customised for the particular needs of an organisation. The courses are ideally suited for groups of 15 to 30 or more participants.
Learn more about our custom programmes here.
Download the RCA Executive Education Brochure 2021-22.
Contact us to discuss developing a custom programme:
Peter Christian, Head of Executive Education
Hattie Allen, Executive Education Manager
More opportunities to study at the RCA
Royal College of Art x London Design Festival 2022: Open for Innovation
Register now
To celebrate the opening of the RCA’s new state-of-the-art campus in Battersea and the return of in person executive masterclasses and short courses, we invite you to participate in a half day workshop and networking opportunity as part of London Design Festival 2022.
Contact us
Get in touch with Jo Chounta if you'd like to find out more about this or any of our other short courses.
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