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Outcomes | Audience | Content & AI Tools | Date, Fee & Reg | Course Series | Track Record

5 Major Unique Advantages:

  1. Global Insight, Local Impact for Life & Career Design: As the exclusive China Hub of DesignThinkers Academy—the world’s largest Design Thinking institution (across 28 countries and regions)—and with a proven local track record of developing over 10,000 Design Thinkers through InnoEdge Education and Innovation Social Lab, we have transformed global Design Thinking best practices into a focused Life & Career Design methodology.
  2. Leveraging Local Design Thinkers as the Benchmark: Building on over 2 years of joint research with the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Doctoral Alumni Association and other recognized institutions and experts in Hong Kong and Mainland China(Details), we systematically examined a large group of Design Thinkers, including 16 leading Design Thinkers across different sectors (Details). This research examines how Design Thinking is applied in practice to Life Design and Career Development in China.
  3. Localized Assessment of Design Thinking for Life & Career Design: Building on our local research (mentioned in point #2) and the 31 global Design Thinking competencies for personal development [Details], we have developed twosets of assessment: (a) DT for Life & Career Design (Details), and (b) DT for Life Coaching Skills (Details). These serve as measurable benchmarks before, during, and after the course, allowing participants to track their growth in mindset and skill set.
  4. Internationally Recognized Certification for Professional Credibility: Upon completing the required simulation-based business problem-solving exercises and the required attendance hours, participants will receive the international certificate from DesignThinkers Academy, enhancing their recognized expertise in innovation and transformation.
  5. Open, AI‑Enhanced Guidebook for Public Learning: To promote wider use of Design Thinking for Life Design, we have converted the benchmarks in points #2 and #3 into a free public resource—the “Complete Guidebook of Design Thinking for Life Design” at www.DesignThinking.Life. This open guidebook provides fundamental concepts, practical tools, and self‑reflection exercises aligned with the course, enabling participants and the public to continue learning, conduct self‑assessment, and design their lives and careers.

Part 1: Course Aims and Outcomes

(1.1) Course Aims

This course aims to support individuals navigating life and career transitions by integrating Design Thinking with practical AI tools, enabling them to step back, reassess what truly matters, and intentionally redesign their next stage of life. Through a human-centered and systematic approach, participants are guided to build greater self-awareness, empathy for themselves and others, and a growth mindset, while discovering new possibilities that align with their evolving priorities and values.

At the same time, the program is designed to equip participants with concrete, AI-enhanced methods for planning and decision-making, so that reflection can be translated into realistic action. By working with 6 AI Agents on Innovation Spaces (shown as below), participants learn to co-create with key stakeholders, test and refine ideas, and develop clear roadmaps that increase personal fulfillment, resilience, and adaptability in a rapidly changing world.

Remark: If you want to learn life transition skills and master coaching techniques to guide others in navigating their life and career transitions, consider our AI Design Thinking for Coaching Skills in Life and Career Transition. [Details]

(1.2) Learning Outcomes

  1. Participants will learn to use AI tools to review their past experiences and achievements, identify core strengths, and use these insights to design their future life and career.
  2. They will be able to recognize and address limiting beliefs and behavior patterns through AI-supported sentiment analysis and guided scenario simulations.
  3. They will clarify the key sources of motivation and “flow” for themselves by visualizing ideal futures and co-creating ideas with others using collaborative and generative AI tools.
  4. They will deepen self-understanding and self-empathy by using AI-enabled reflective dialogues and visual mapping to explore their needs, values, and aspirations.
  5. They will learn to convert their life and career vision into clear, actionable plans, refining strategies with AI insights and visual tools to enhance feasibility, focus, and follow-through.

(1.3) Why AI Design Thinking Matters for Life Design

AI Design Thinking strengthens Life Design by combining the core values of self-empathy, co-creation, and iteration with powerful AI tools, enabling individuals to better understand themselves, work more effectively with others, and continuously refine their life and career paths with data-informed insight and confidence.

  1. Self-Empathy – AI-supported reflection deepens self-understanding by revealing personal strengths, needs, limitations, and aspirations, helping individuals approach life and career choices with clarity and self-compassion.
  2. Co-creation – AI-enabled collaboration tools make it easier to engage mentors, peers, and key stakeholders, integrating diverse feedback to design more strategic and meaningful life and career directions.
  3. Iteration – AI-driven analysis turns past setbacks into learning data, providing real-time insights that support continuous experimentation, adjustment, and alignment with evolving goals and values.

(1.4) Tailored for Chinese Design Thinkers – Global Vision, Local Insight

This course is specially designed for Chinese Design Thinkers by combining global best practices in life and career Design Thinking with local insights from Hong Kong and the wider Chinese community. Around the world, leaders and practitioners in fields such as hospitality, NGOs, education, coaching, and business have successfully applied Design Thinking to career development and life transitions—and this approach is now increasingly adopted in Hong Kong for career progression and pivoting across diverse backgrounds.

Building on a series of seminars and webinars from 2023 to 2025 on 設計思維生命教育與16 位生涯規劃達人: 真情對話 (please click here for details) with distinguished Hong Kong Design Thinkers, this program integrates their real-life experiences and cultural perspectives. As a result, the AI Design Thinking for Life & Career Planning course is not only globally informed but also highly relevant to Chinese participants’ values, contexts, and aspirations.

Part 2: Target Audience

  • Mid-career professionals with at least five years of experience who want to respond to industry changes, strengthen their current roles, or explore new career paths.
  • Working adults who wish to redesign their lives and careers in a holistic way—across work, health, relationships, and personal growth—using structured tools and methods.
  • Individuals aged approximately 35 to 65 who are experiencing midlife transitions and seeking to redefine their goals, values, and direction for greater fulfillment in work and life.
  • Pre-retirement and retired individuals (around 65 and above) who wish to create a meaningful next chapter through volunteering, part-time work, entrepreneurship, or new personal pursuits.

Next Step After Completing This Course: Graduates of this course are eligible to progress to the AI Design Thinking for Life Coaching Course (Details), where they can further deepen their practice, engage with more complex coachee cases, and more fully integrate AI‑enhanced tools into their life and career coaching methodology.

Part 3: Course Content and AI Tools

(3.1) Learning Mode

This interactive course equips participants with the mindset, skill sets, and AI toolsets, helping them navigate transitions and intentionally shape a more fulfilling and future-ready direction. Built on a “learning-by-doing” approach, participants will take part in structured, hands-on, and collaborative activities that address real life and career questions, leading to clear and practical personal outcomes.

Each stage of the Design Thinking process is supported by AI‑enhanced demonstrations and guided exercises in virtual innovation spaces (Details). Through these experiences, participants will clarify their values and strengths, explore multiple life and career possibilitie, and translate insights into concrete, well‑designed action plans for their next life and career chapter.

(3.2) Session Content

  • Pre-Course Preparation Session
    • Participants will complete a comprehensive self-assessment to evaluate their current life and career status.
    • Every Participant will undergo a 360-degree skill assessment based on Design Thinking principles, evaluating their abilities across 10 core competencies essential for life and career planning. The assessment used a 5-point scale, combining self-evaluations and peer feedback to provide a balanced perspective on strengths and areas for improvement. Results were visualized using bar charts to compare individual and peer evaluations and radar charts to illustrate the overall distribution of competencies. Please click here for the sample 10-page report for reference.
  • Session 1: Discovering and Self-Empathy [Tool list]
    • Leverging 3 life design tools (as below) to telp participants reflect on their past experiences and current status, explore internal needs and unmet desires, and combine these insights with external trends to define clear challenges and developmental directions.
      • Looking Forward Map
        Assists participants in reviewing past experiences, uncovering success patterns, and visualizing future goals to establish a clear sense of direction.
      • Challenge Statement Design
        Guides participants to explore unmet needs and hidden desires, helping them clearly define the core challenges in their life and career transitions.
      • Trend Map
        This course helps participants understand external trends and identify challenges and opportunities in the environment, enhancing their ability to respond effectively to external conditions.
  • Session 2: Defining Obstacles and Planning Directions [Tool list]
    • Leverging 3 life design tools (as below) to enable participants to analyze internal and external factors that hinder transitions, identify core activities that drive motivation, and integrate insights to develop a personalized and actionable plan.
      • Iceberg Model
        This person analyzes obstacles, from behaviors to deep-seated beliefs, uncovering the root causes that limit life and career transitions.
      • Flow State Analysis
        Helps participants identify key activities that inspire motivation and focus, enhancing the efficiency and momentum of the transition process.
      • Personal Persona Map
        This approach combines internal insights with external goals to clarify personal positioning and needs, forming a concrete action plan for life and career transitions.
  • Session 3: Developing Diverse Pathways [Tool list]
    • Leverging 3 life design tools (as below) to help participants explore a variety of solutions, spark creativity, and evaluate the feasibility of different options, enabling them to discover the most suitable pathways for their midlife transitions.
      • Co-creative Ideation
        This approach combines individual reflection and group collaboration, allowing participants to explore internal ideas and solutions and enhance them through diverse perspectives in group discussions to create more comprehensive pathway options.
      • Strength-Based Ideation
        This session focuses on participants’ core strengths and capabilities, proposing actionable and sustainable strategies that fully leverage their unique talents.
      • Idea Prioritization
        Uses an impact and feasibility matrix to evaluate and select the best ideas, helping participants focus on the most practical and valuable pathways while ensuring efficient use of resources and energy.
  • Session 4: Delivering a Concrete Action Plan [Tool list]
    • Leverging 3 life design tools (as below) to assist participants in transforming their ideas into actionable plans, creating a clear implementation roadmap, and leveraging stakeholder support and feedback mechanisms to enhance the feasibility and success rate of their plans.
      • Magazine Cover
        Participants design a future magazine cover symbolizing their success, using visual elements to present their life vision and goals, inspiring action and reinforcing the appeal of their objectives.
      • Life Road Map
        Guides participants in creating specific goal achievement pathways and setting phased milestones to ensure that action plans are clear, time-bound, and measurable.
      • Feedback Analysis
        This tool helps participants identify and analyze the needs and support levels of key stakeholders, enabling them to develop strategies to secure more resources and assistance, thereby increasing the likelihood of success.

(3.3) AI Tools for Each Stage will be Practiced or Demonstrated during the courses.

Part 4: Date, Fee and Registration

Official Course Title: DesignThinkers Academy AI Design Thinking for Life & Career Planning Certificate Course (2-Day | AI Tools Included)

(4.1) Tuition Fee: HK$3,250 (Early Bird, One Month Before Class Start) | HK$3,500 (Standard Price)

(4.2) Date & Time for 2-day Course: 11 & 18 July 2026 (Sat Class)

(4.3) Mode & Language: Face-to-face Model (Kwun Tong District) | Cantonese Presentation with English Materials

(4.4) Course Leaders and Facilitators: The course content is localized by the DesignThinkers Academy China program team (shown below) and delivered by certified, experienced Design Thinking facilitators. They will share practical insights and proven strategies for applying Design Thinking in innovation projects and organizational transformation. This hands-on approach empowers you to integrate Design Thinking principles directly into your daily work.

(4.5) Certification and Recognition: Upon completing the course and required exercises, participants receive a Digital Certificate of Completion from the DesignThinkers Academy, verified through a secure blockchain-based certification system for authenticity and global recognition.

Part 5: AI Design Thinking for Life and Career Design Course Series

This Course Series (Details) provides a clear, connected pathway across key life and career stages and roles. It includes Life Planning for life and career transitors who are designing their next chapter, Life Coaching for coaches supporting coachees through transition, Career Guidance & Career Planning for teachers and school counsellors who advise young people, University‑to‑Work Transition for students preparing to enter the workforce, and Thriving in University for students at different stages of university life.

CodeTitleMethod(s)AI ToolsDetails
(401)2-Day AI Design Thinking for Life & Career PlanningDT3.08 SetsCourse
(402)2-Day AI Design Thinking for Life & Career CoachingDT3.08 SetsCourse
(403)2-Day AI Design Thinking for Student Career Guidance & Planning (Designed for Teachers)DT3.08 SetsCourse
(404)2-Day AI Design Thinking for Transitioning from University to WorkforceDT3.08 SetsCourse
(405)2-Day AI Design Thinking for Strategies in Thriving University LifeDT3.08 SetsCourse

In addition to InnoEdge Education’s Life and Career Design Courses, InnoEdge Consulting also offers a comprehensive suite of Innovation Programs at the Strategic, Tactical, and Foundational levels.

Part 6: Track Record

Since 2019, DesignThinkers Academy has conducted over 100 public courses (left), 11 co-hosted programs with universities, government, and industry bodies (details) (right), and 500+ in-house trainings. Programs cover business (details), social services, and public sectors(details), achieving proven results and strong industry recognition.

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