Design Thinking workshops
to solve any challenge
Create solutions, more efficiently.
“The Design Sprint is a globally used methodology embraced by leading innovators such as Google, Microsoft and Uber.”
I facilitate your sprints & workshops
Pressure-cooking sprints for teams to make strategically decisions with out-of-the-box ideas.
Just one workshop not only saves you hours and money but also accelerates collaboration for maximum productivity, creativity and alignment.
Available both remotely 💻 and on-site 🏢 .
Hi 👋 I am
Vera Holland
Why hire a facilitator?
Minimize time
A skilled facilitator prevents chaos and aligns your team through a structured and time-boxed approach.
Cut costs
A skilled facilitator safeguards against pitfalls to ensure the process moves in the right direction.
Achieve results
A skilled facilitator ensures you achieve desired outcomes with effective techniques and unbiased guidance.
My services
Design Sprint
Months of work, in just 4 days.
A Design Sprints guides you to find a validated solution to your challenge and align your team around it.
6 reasons to do a Design Sprint:
📈 Improve your product or service results
🚀 Innovate your product or service
🤔 Gain confidence in executing an idea or strategy
🤝 Align your team effectively
🤐 Escape from endless meetings
💡 Challenge your team with creative thinking
Or tackling another challenge?
Book a free 1-hour workshop to explore whether a Design Sprint is the right fit for your team.
Learn more about the Design Sprint
Explore further details about my pricing, the methodology and how a Design Sprint can benefit you.
Workshops
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For every team facing a strategic decision or initiating a new project.
This Mini-Design Sprint guides you through a step-by-step creative process and ensures a solution.
With a mini-Design Sprint you:
✔ Gain direct results on a challenge you face✔ Elevate your team to peak performance and
creativity.
✔ Discover Design Thinking by doing it
✔ Only invest 2 hours per team member (max. 7p.)
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Stimulate creativity within your team.
When tackling creative brainstorm sessions, navigating through varied perspectives can be challenging. Team members may have differing views, causing uncertainty about the best starting point and which ideas to prioritize.
The "Creative Brainstorm" workshop:
✔ Enhances creativity within your team.
✔ Offers engaging exercises to break through differing views
✔ Streamlines the process to an outcome
✔ Leaves your team with a unified vision and prioritized ideas, ready to fuel your next steps. -
Fast-track decision-making in your team.
Efficient decision-making often is a challenge for teams with diverse perspectives. It results in uncertainty about prioritizing tasks and immediate actions.
The "Lightning Decision Jam" workshop is designed to :
✔ Address challenges head-on
✔ Gets your team through a structured decision-making process
✔ Ensuring rapid solutions
✔ Gains clarity to your team with unified decisions and a roadmap for immediate action. -
Align your team on your company’s brand in just 3 hours.
A “brand sprint” is a game-changer. It turns the abstract concept of "our brand" into something tangible and practical. By the end of the session, you'll have:✔ 20-Year Roadmap
✔ What, How, Why
✔ Top 3 Values
✔ Top 3 Audiences
✔ Personality Sliders
✔ Competitive Landscape overview
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Draw or refine your value proposition.
Crafting a value proposition is challenging. It requires concise yet impactful messaging that resonates with diverse team perspectives and effectively communicates unique value to the target audience, all while balancing clarity, distinctiveness, and relevance.
The "Value Proposition Design" workshop incorporates a series of hands-on exercises to:
✔ Refine & strengthen or design your value proposition.
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Get your team aligned.
It's a common struggle within teams when it comes to aligning on the true challenges. Perspectives often differ, which leads to uncertainty about where to start, what needs immediate attention, and what can be temporarily set aside.
In my dynamic "Challenge Framing" workshop, we tackle this challenge head-on. Your team:
✔ Gains focus and leaves with a clear, unified understanding of the problem at hand✔ Leaves with defined next steps.
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Rapid innovation through collaborative problem-solving.
A “hackaday” is an intensive and collaborative event where a multidisciplinaire team comes together to solve a problem within just 8 hours.
We will call the participants "hackers". They will engage in rapid prototyping and problem-solving to produce tangible results.Hackathons promote creativity, teamwork. It’s simular to a Design Sprint, but then in just 1 day.
The benefits of a Hackaday:
✔ Problem Solving: Hackathons provide an opportunity to work on real-world problems and find innovative solutions in 8 hours.✔ Skill Development: Participants can enhance their technical, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.
✔ Creativity: Encourages creative thinking and out-of-the-box solutions to challenges.
✔ Project Development: Rapid development of prototypes or projects within a short time frame.
✔ Learning: Exposure to new technologies, tools, and methodologies during the hackathon.
✔ Teamwork: Collaboration with diverse individuals, fostering teamwork and communication skills.
✔ Prizes and Recognition: You can offer prizes, recognition, or opportunities to individual members or teams. Be playful!
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Months of work, in just 4 days.
A Design Sprints guides you to find a validated solution to your challenge and align your team around it.
Read this page where I tell you all about the magic of a Design Sprint.
A structured approach to optimize team outcomes.
Through purposeful exercises designed to streamline discussions, your team is empowered to produce results that align with the set objectives.
Book a free
1-hour workshop
Discover the dynamic flow of design thinking and gain a clear starting point for a full workshop or sprint.
About me
Hello! 👋 I am Vera Holland, a Design Thinker with over 10 years of experience.
My background is in product management and media, including award-winning digital products in commercial and social contexts.
My passion? Guiding teams to create products and services that not only exist but have a positive impact on the world. 🌍✨
Read more about my facilitation style and post-workshop services. ↓
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