Design Sprint Training
We teach Design Sprints—a proven, repeatable, hands-on way to validate your new or improved product or service idea in weeks, not months. Avoid big investments in untested ideas your customers may not want. Use Design Sprints to learn what customers think about your new or improved product or service in just a week.
“This bootcamp addressed the need for promoting inventiveness and to provide entrepreneurship training for tech and industrial design students. Jeremy, Eric and Emil delivered incredible results working with a group of undergraduate students, and in barely a week of training, the students learned how to provide solutions through marketable products using technology and innovation.
They also learned how to successfully present and finance their projects through crowdfunding. This perfectly exemplifies what I perceive as the goal of the YLAI exchange program: To promote mutual understanding through education, and to promote economic prosperity through entrepreneurship.”
—Lidia Valdez, Alumni Coordinator, U.S. Embassy in Santo Dominago
“Eric! It really was a pleasure to know you and learn all what I learned from you. It's a knowledge that I will always be grateful for and I hope to share with you in other moments. Thank you very much for everything!
—Rafael Enrique Polanco Martínez, INTEC University Student
Case Study: Design Sprint Training in the DR
Wily partnered with Jeremy Losaw of Enventys Partners (a “permanent” partner) and Emil Rodriguez of Xolutronic (a location partner) to facilitate a five day Design Sprint Bootcamp with INTEC University engineering and industrial design students in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
In one week, students learned how to frame a real world challenge into an opportunity, generate ideas, prototype their best ideas, and get feedback from their target audience. We also brought in subject matter experts to share their knowledge and field questions the students had about their challenge.
While the challenge was arbitrary (how to make it easier to own and maintain household plants), the prototypes, live tests, final presentations, and (most importantly) the learning was real.
Funding for the bootcamp was provided by the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI), a Professional Fellows Program within the U.S. State Department.
Our Reach
We have experience designing and facilitating training and client workshops in Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia, Latin America, as well as across the United States and Canada. And we work with local partners to ensure each workshop is sensitive to the context, people and places we have the privilege of serving.
Our Instructors
Eric Gorman leads Wily, a design agency that runs strategy and design sprints, and trains people how to run their own.
Eric has led design sprints and training workshops for Fortune 100 firms, social enterprises, and federal and city government teams in the U.S. and abroad, including Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Canada. He has run three weeklong workshops with USAID.
He has also taught at Wake Forest University’s Design Thinking Certificate Program and holds a B.A. in political science and M.S.P. in urban planning from Florida State University.
Julia Jackson, Strategist and Facilitator at Wily, creates world class experiences for clients. With over 20 years of experience, Julia is adept at designing and facilitating innovation workshops, strategy, and project management. Julia balances a talent for generating big ideas and communicating stories of impact with a pragmatic ability to execute these creative visions. She’s passionate about working with individuals and teams to unleash their potential and has led training for students and business leaders in the US, the UK, and the Dominican Republic. Julia’s facilitation and training strategies are featured in the recently published The Remote Design Sprint Guide — a primer written by Design Sprint creator, Jake Knapp.
Jeremy Losaw is a YLAI (Young Leaders of America) alumni and currently the Director of Engineering at Enventys Partners which is a product development and launch agency. He has delivered innovation and IoT training in the US and the Dominican Republic and has developed a six-week Internet of Things training class for coding school, Tech Talent South. He has more than ten issued patents and many products that have been launched via crowdfunding and brought to mass production. In addition, Jeremy is a former NASCAR auto racing engineer and experienced prototyper, and has contributed more than 100 articles to Inventors Digest magazine.
Emil Rodriguez is a YLAI (Young Leaders of America) alumni and is the Cofounder and CEO of Xolutronic, a company based in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic that specializes in electronic product design and development.
Emil has assisted our team in the delivery of multiple innovation and product bootcamps, presentations and lectures over the past few years, and bring strong expertise to both the process and product sides of the innovation bootcamp.
Emil is the creator of the Passfort that raised $107,000 on Kickstarter, is a 2016 YLAI Fellow, and holds a B.E. from Universidad APEC.
Emil is fluent in both Spanish and English.
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