Practitioner Certification Program

Become a front-line innovator who uses design thinking in your daily work to tackle problems and design powerful solutions.

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Private programs

Interested in Practitioner Certification for your organization? Learn more about our private programs or contact us.

Build skills to solve problems creatively and collaboratively

Our Practitioner Certification Program teaches you design thinking skills and equips you to tackle the challenges you face in your daily work creatively, collaboratively and with confidence in a different way of working.

You’ll learn the LUMA System as a human-centered toolset to help your team identify the right problems to solve and design solutions that people want and need.

Who the program is for: 

    •  Individuals and small teams through open enrollment sections.
    •  Large organizations through private programs. Learn more about flexible options for private programs.

Available formats: Fully online or blend of online and in-person*

Structure: Four live learning sessions followed by three live coaching sessions

Duration: Six weeks

What you earn: Certification as a Practitioner of Human-Centered Design

What you'll learn

As a LUMA certified practitioner, you’ll be able to: 

  • Use human-centered design methods, activities and techniques in your work on a daily basis, whatever your job is.
  • Begin to speak a common language for creative problem-solving that leads to faster, better collaboration that gets results.
  • Know how and when to apply combinations of human-centered design methods to common challenges, such as aligning a team or coming up with better ideas.
  • Build your own agendas for work sessions that use combinations of LUMA methods to address specific business challenges.
  • Collaborate effectively with others — whether that’s colleagues, customers or partners — both in-person and remotely, across locations and time zones.
Photo Illustration of the LUMA Institute Practitioner certification badge
Illustration of the LUMA Institute Practitioner certification badge
Costs

Public programs

  • $2,250 USD per person, standard rate
  • $1,950 USD per person, non-profit/education/government rate
  • Group rate: $1,950 USD per person for 3-5 members from the same organization

Private programs

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