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Building design capability that lasts

Purpose-led organisation · New Zealand

  • Capability Building
  • Facilitation
  • Design Thinking

The ask

How might we help teams use human-centred design to solve their own organisational challenges?

Participants collaborating around a workshop table covered in sticky notes

The challenge

Why this problem mattered

Context to come — the situation the organisation was in, what was at stake and why the problem was worth solving.

What I discovered

The human insight

Key insight to come — the behavioural or human truth that reframed how the team understood the problem.

What I did

I designed and led a practical design-thinking programme combining training, facilitation and hands-on application to real organisational problems, coaching teams to use the approach independently.

Further detail to come — my role, how the work ran and the decisions it shaped.

Methods

  • Capability Building
  • Facilitation
  • Co-design

The impact

The organisation continued using design-thinking practices beyond the initial programme, embedding human-centred approaches into how teams tackled problems and developed solutions.