Innovate/Academy

Accelerate your career, maximise your potential, increase your impact. With a range of in-company and cross-company programmes, expert tutors and Maastricht University as a world-leading learning platform alongside us.

Cross-company

Cross-company programmes for participants from a broad spectrum of backgrounds and businesses, you’ll learn not only from UMIO tutors, but from each other.

In-company

In-company programmes for participants from within the same organisation, UMIO/Innovate can tailor the content around specific goals and a shared ambition. Leveraging the knowledge within Maastricht University and our business network.

Innovate/Academy

In order to be more successful in your innovation endeavours you need to have the right skills, mindset and knowledge to make a sustainable impact. In our open training tracks, individuals can learn all about Customer Centric Innovation and Design Thinking and build their own innovation capacity.

We offer several masterclasses and courses (either off- or online) on design thinking and innovation management.

Service Design Thinking

Service Design Thinking is a powerful mindset, and offers you a process and a toolkit to innovate and grow your business. UMIO can help you grow your organisation’s innovation capacity by introducing you to Service Design Thinking.

Leading through crisis

Each crisis has winners and losers. What sets them apart is empathy, adaptibility, speed of change and good leadership.

Business model building

Products and services expire faster than ever before, industry boundaries are disappearing, sectors are being disrupted. Future proof companies constantly challenge their own business model, pushing the boundaries in the industry. Disrupt or be disrupted.

Speculative futures

As our society is expanding, more interconnected and therefore more complex there are all sorts of aspects that can influence our personal and organisational situation in both a positive as well as a negative way.

Acceleration Masterclass

Maastricht University invites you to join a half-day Acceleration Masterclass.

Learn from experience

We find that the successes and failures of others can be the best source of learning. Our programmes are brought to life with real-world case studies and both tutor and student experiences.

Led by leaders

We are a team of design leaders with specific passions and extensive experience in leading design in the real world.

Blending learning

We mix formal teaching with self-guidance and coaching. Face to face and online. Delivering impactful learning that’s personalised and engaging.

Result focused

For in-company and cross company trainings, we’ll agree desired outcomes early on, then drive progress in a structured way with an ongoing action plan and progress tracking.