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Designing meaningful experiences involves multiple steps in the design process. Understanding what your audience is thinking, how they make decisions, and what drives them towards making them is all part of design strategy. Being able to empathize with your customers and recognizing the psychology behind their decisions is one of the most important aspects of design.

Consumer empathy. It’s the key to successful product strategy, design, and marketing. Through it, we find unanswered questions, unmet needs, and idea­ catalyzing behaviors. But building a business, product, or service around a point­-in-­time understanding of your consumer is a strategy destined to fail. To successfully create an offering that dramatically shifts behavior, organically generates habitual engagement, and promotes a profitable viral cycle, we must first understand the consumer journey. This workshop will teach you a multidisciplinary approach to consumer…

In this class, we will move beyond the basics of spreadsheet creation. Topics will include data manipulation/troubleshooting and advanced functions to summarize and analyze data having multiple attributes. We will also introduce using slicers with PivotTables, creating interactive charts and dashboards, and writing basic macros. Class exercises will be utilized to facilitate understanding.

Learn how to use your Google Analytics to get real insights into your website’s visitors, their behavior and any patterns and trends. You will learn the lean smart way to gain customer insights and then turn these into actions that will drive your business forward.

Creativity and collaboration have become essential skills in businesses that seek to grow through innovation. Fortunately, these are not inborn traits — to organizations or individuals — but skills that can be taught. Together, they form the cornerstone of Design Thinking (a.k.a. Human-Centered Design).This hands-on bootcamp will lead you through the design thinking process. The class will explore how design thinking can be used to develop innovative solutions for the problems we face as businesspeople, non-profit leaders, entrepreneurs, and global…

Everyone can master the art of public speaking and easily leverage the secrets the best speakers in the world to elevate your public speaking performance, forget the fear, and learn to love the spotlight. Public speaking is the most common #1 phobia in today's society, and at the same time, our abilities to strongly represent ourselves are becoming more and more of a priority. Whether we are job interviewing, pitching our startup, actively networking, or needing to lead a presentation…

Python is a versatile and widely-used programming language with many applications. This workshop explores basic programming concepts in Python and discusses real world applications across multiple industries. The workshop is hands-on and exercise based, so participants will get plenty of practice. This class is aimed at new programmers, or those who are looking to brush up on the basics and get a hands-on introduction to the Python programming language.

We’ve all heard of Microsoft Excel, and yet a surprising number of people have little to no experience using it. In this class — ideal for people working in business, management, or simply interested in getting more organized — you’ll learn the basics of the application, including calculation, formatting, and charts. The class will also extend beyond the simple addition of data and will put participants in a position where Excel is no longer a chore, but a powerful tool…