Clients

 

YOUR WORDS

School of Ideas gives you new approaches to thinking creatively, based on real world examples and tools that actually work. Right away we were equipped with a common language around brand, strategy and ideas that make the process easier, and more insightful.
— Colleen DeCourcy, Chief Creative Officer, Snap
School of Ideas helped my team direct their thinking in new ways. The training took high-level concepts and strategies and distilled them into very simple and actionable behaviors that will significantly elevate our approach.
— Lisa Materazzo, Global Chief Marketing Officer, Ford Motor Company, former Vice President Vehicle Marketing + Communications, Toyota
School of Ideas was of immediate benefit to our organization. We all left inspired, but perhaps even more importantly with a toolbox to get us to stronger work. I saw my team using School of Ideas’ frameworks in documents, on whiteboards and as a pressure test to work the day after the training. The majority of trainings you leave with a few nuggets and a full inbox, after School of Ideas we left as better marketers.
— Christine Sheehan, VP Brand Communications and Planning, adidas
School of Ideas gave the team incredible tools and techniques for thinking about our work in an even more creative way. In just 24 hours we were already asking different, more interesting questions about our business.
— Francine Li, Chief Marketing Officer, IPSI, former Global Brand Marketing, Netflix
The younger members of my team got a classical rigorous schooling in strategic planning, and the more seasoned leaders took away a bag of tips, tricks and the dark arts of selling strategy and creative to even the toughest clients. School of Ideas had a room full of smart people with lots of other things on their minds, completely hooked, for several hours across several days. That’s impressive.
— Zach Gallagher, Director of Global Brand Strategy at Snap, Inc, former Chief Strategic Officer, POSSIBLE
School of Ideas has provided a simple and effective framework to get to better work faster, all while establishing a unified language around strategy that has benefitted the whole agency.
— Martin Soendergaard, Executive Creative Director, We Are Social, Singapore
School of Ideas covered a wide range of topics associated with creativity and strategy. My team felt better equipped with relevant and useful tools to improve the ideation process, not just with our creative partners but also internally and with our clients.
— Mark Turner, Chief Strategy Officer, Saatchi & Saatchi
School of Ideas delivered the most transformational training in marketing we have experienced thus far.
— Thomas Crahan, General Manager of Vehicle Marketing + Communications, Toyota
This course is exceptional. Learned more here than ad school. Plain and simple, this is incredible.
— Wieden+Kennedy graduate
This was the most useful corporate training I have ever done. Thank you!
— adidas graduate
This is the most fruitful training I’ve ever had and I wish I’d learned it earlier.
— Riot Games graduate
School of Ideas redefined and broke taboos around strategy. It showed people who might not champion or believe in strategy how important it is for a powerful brand and impactful creative idea.
— Netflix graduate
Gives you a solid foundation & playbook to use for the rest of your career.
— TBWAMedia Arts Lab graduate
I loved the energy and vibe of the course! It’s all killer, no filler.
— Riot Games graduate
This course demystifies the work of getting to strong strategy and ideas through a toolbox of frameworks that get you to better work.
— adidas graduate
Everyone is excited to implement these tools into our everyday work process.
— The New York Times graduate
Thank you for creating simple ways to approach complex problems. It was so helpful to think of strategy as real teachable skills.
— Nike graduate
This will help me break out of feeling stuck with the big problems we are tasked to solve.
— Toyota graduate
Amazing practical examples and breakout exercises that allowed techniques to be put into practice quickly.

— Riot Games graduate
I like the breadth of topics we covered - especially the strategy, business expert, and idea selling sessions.
— DoorDash graduate
It helped me stretch into new ways of thinking about how to approach my work.
— Snap graduate
Memorable frameworks and questions to ask throughout our whole process!
— Netflix graduate
This is the best training we have, hands down, and I want more of it!
— Toyota graduate
The presentation, presence, absolute knowledge of the course content was incredible. I felt like I was able to shed bad habits and get a fresh start on strategy.
— Saatchi & Saatchi graduate
The examples were so relevant and really stuck. Definitely going to use them in future meetings!
— Lexus graduate
You broke the taboos around strategy and how important it is for a creative idea.
— Netflix graduate
I wished I had learned this sooner in life.
— Toyota graduate
This course removes all your preconceived notions of training.
— Toyota graduate
Took very high-level ideas, concepts and strategies and distilled them into very simple and actionable behaviors.
— Toyota graduate
Provided tangible processes to ideate + innovate. Compared to other ‘innovation’ training, this was much more practical.
— Toyota graduate
Well-organized, clearly articulated, with great case studies. I gleaned a great deal of value from this.
— Snap graduate
 
 

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