Educator training

Innovation Catalysts are a group of professionals at Intuit who are dedicated to helping others learn and apply Intuit’s Customer Driven Innovation (CDI) and Design for Delight (D4D) best practices to develop the most innovative & customer-centric solutions. This community of 400+ Intuit employees has been around for 10+ years! And we have partnered with schools, districts, nonprofit partners & educators to bring this professional development opportunity to you! By becoming an Innovation Catalyst Educator, you will be equipped with the training & resources to bring these essential skills to your students, and help prepare them to be successful in whatever career path they may choose.

This training provided by Intuit is completely free of cost!

For most educators, this design thinking training will count towards your professional development hours. Please confirm with your supervisor as there may be specific requirements that need to be met. We will provide a Design Thinking Educator badge to all participants confirming professional development hours.

This training is for educators as it will focus on facilitation of design thinking curriculum in the classroom. We do have an asynchronous Design for Delight course: For Students & one For Educators. Both are free & open to all students & educators!

Please feel free to forward this training opportunity to your colleagues! Sign up here for the June 13th - 16th training, and here for the August 1st - 4th training.

You will receive a Design Thinking Educator Credly badge following completion of the training. In addition, all educators will receive a voucher to take the Design for Delight certification exam offered through Certiport.

The Educator Design for Delight Foundations course on NovoEd provides an introduction to Design for Delight, and takes the learner through various design thinking activities to familiarize themselves with the methodology. This Innovation Catalyst Educator Training will take learners on a deep dive into Design for Delight, and focus on facilitation skills development to support educators in bringing design thinking curriculum into the classroom.

Prior to joining the training, educators should be familiar with Design for Delight, and we strongly recommend taking the Design for Delight Foundations Course as a prerequisite. The course takes ~6-8 hours to complete.

This summer, we have two opportunities to take this training: June 13th - June 16th or August 1st - August 4th. We will be offering additional training in the future, and will be sure to share those on our website when they are scheduled.

We would be happy to discuss offering this training to your school and/or district! Please reach out to ryan_mcallister@intuit.com for more information.

This training is free of cost to the educator, and unfortunately we are unable to offer stipends in addition to this free depth training in Design for Delight. If there are extenuating circumstances, please reach out to josh_phelon@intuit.com and we will work with you to discuss possible options.