Design Thinking Consulting & Training

Design thinking consultants train teams and facilitate human-centered innovation processes using design thinking methodology.

With design thinking mainstream and customer-centricity essential, consulting generates revenue of $150,000-$520,000 with 85-95% margins.

The business requires design thinking expertise, facilitation skills, training curriculum, workshop materials, and IDEO or d.school background helpful.

Services include design thinking training workshops, human-centered design facilitation, empathy and user research, prototyping and testing sprints, design sprint facilitation (5-day), and innovation capability building.

Revenue through training and facilitation fees.

Success factors include design thinking certification or IDEO background, powerful facilitation and group engagement, creating experiential and hands-on learning, rapid prototyping and testing mindset, and serving innovation teams and product organizations.

Marketing focuses on corporate innovation, product teams, and transformation initiatives.

With design thinking proven and customer-centricity demanded in 2025, design thinking consulting offers methodology opportunities serving human-centered innovation with facilitation and design thinking expertise as differentiators.