Navigator – Northwestern Mutual Design Thinking Academy
  • Type Certification
  • Level Advanced
  • Time Weeks

Navigator – Northwestern Mutual Design Thinking Academy

Issued by Illinois Institute of Technology

Awarded to Participants who successfully completed the Northwestern Mutual DesignThinking Academy Navigator Training for Leaders. This training was co-designed by and for Northwestern Mutual and delivered in partnership with the Institute of Design Academy. Completion of Navigator training means individuals have demonstrated the ability to lead the definition, collaboration, adaption, and implementation of Northwestern Mutual's Design Thinking practice, mindset, and tools.

  • Type Certification
  • Level Advanced
  • Time Weeks

Skills

Earning Criteria

  • Ability to develop, evolve, and cross-pollinate proprietary insights from empathy research to repeat and scale processes for developing solutions.
  • Capable of designing systems and platforms to create more holistic experiences to change customer expectations and drive change.
  • Ability to execute and learn from a number of rapid experiments.
  • Command of communicating pain points, barriers, and opportunities with clarity for efficient collaboration
  • Proficiency to build robust business cases and justify funding prioritization.
  • Potential for on-the-job learning, mentoring and interacting within a community of practice.