Executive Thinking Academy 12 Month Membership
Higher-order thinking skills have always been important, but soon they may constitute all that really matters for white-collar professionals. As artificial intelligence systems take over menial tasks, the automatable knowledge economy is transforming into the ‘Wisdom Economy’.
Upskill with everything you need to move into the future with the confidence of a hallucinating chatbot, but with the very real human strategic, creative & critical thinking skills to stay ahead of the automation machines.
Your 12 Month Enrollment in the Executive Thinking Academy includes Courses such as the 4-week Higher-Order Thinking Skills course; Webinars and Q&A sessions with global thought leaders, academics, and authors; and being connected with a community of like-minded people from around the world who are expanding their executive thinking skills.
Grow your Higher-Order Thinking Skills
Enroll in this four-week course covering Strategic, Creative, Critical, and Executive thinking skills; with practical applications and templates to use beyond the course itself. Included as part of your Executive Thinking Academy membership.
Week 1: Strategic Thinking
A strategy is a plan based on relevant insights. Explore strategic thinking frameworks, with practical exercises, templates, and interactive hands-on learning.
Week 2: Creative Thinking
Creativity isn't just for pretentious people, it's an intrinsic part of problem-solving. Discover and apply myriad divergent ideation exercises to realize your creative potential.
Week 3: Critical Thinking
Never trust a brain, especially your own. Intellectual humility and critical thinking constitute some of the most valuable skills to foster, not only to mitigate risks, but also to identify opportunities.
Week 4: Executive Thinking
Our adaptability is our greatest advantage. Higher-order thinking is responsive rather than prescriptive, and this final week we'll explore how to harness synthesization, iteration, mental models and more.
Reformatted
One person droning on can be quite boring, and we're much more engaged by conversations, which is why we've used a dialogue-based format for your lessons, as well as providing the option to learn together.
Hosted by internationally award-winning creative director and founder of The School of Thought, Jesse Richardson; and best-selling author of How Minds Change and host of the You Are Not So Smart podcast, David McRaney.
Truly Interactive
If you're looking to passively watch a video, this is not the course for you.
Dive into practical exercises that push and challenge your thinking, and provide you with templates and frameworks you can use and apply well beyond the timeframe of the course itself.
Get connected
You have the option to collaborate with a small group, inspiring and helping each other to learn, as well as providing a more social and engaging format than working alone.
Research shows social learning is highly effective.
Learning mental models will vastly improve your decision-making skills, and Kitted provides a tangible way to master them by integrating them into your everyday workflows.
Gabriel Weinberg
Founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo and co-author of the internationally best-selling book Superthinking - The Big Book of Mental Models
Made by global leaders in higher order thinking
Kitted was made by the founders of The School of Thought International, a non profit dedicated to promoting critical thinking, reason, and understanding.
5% of proceeds from Kitted are donated to The School of Thought to further this cause.
About us
Our mission is to promote professional wisdom by synthesizing design with empirically supported academic understanding.
Drawing upon luminaries and insights from fields including behavioral science, physics, psychology, and philosophy, we apply design thinking principles to produce products and learning systems that make insights actionable.
Find out more about our origins and aspirations here:
Take Action with practical exercises
Become an instant workshop, brainstorm, and presentation ninja with a comprehensive range of tools, templates, and frameworks from the world’s best practitioners.
Use these cards in combination with any of the other cards, for example select 5 green Frame cards as perspective prompts to use with the 10 Ideas in 10 Minutes Action.
Get all 58 Action cards in the Practical Thinking Deck
Get strategic with Insights
Level up your professional wisdom with useful distilled insights from the fields of psychology, economics, philosophy, physics and more.
These purple Insights are especially useful to help prompt deeper strategic considerations, for example the Pareto Principle card might help you to consider a more optimal strategy.
Get all 58 Insight cards in the Strategic Thinking Deck
Shift perspective with Frames
Provoke consideration of relevant frames with these prompt cards for media channels, stakeholders, audiences, archetypes and more.
Simply having these green Frame cards in front of you during a brainstorm, workshop, or meeting can help you consider relevant perspectives that might otherwise have been ignored.
Get all 58 Frame cards in the Perspectives Thinking Deck
Avoid Critical issues with Snares
Reduce risks, limit liabilities, and save a lot of time and money with critical thinking tools that help you evaluate and move forward with assurance.
These blue Snares cards are likely to be the most valuable because they help you to consider critical perspectives that can both avoid costly mistakes, but also optimize opportunities.
Get all 58 Snare cards in the Critical Thinking Deck
Applications
Assumptions Map
The Assumptions Map is just one of 58 thinking tools in the Actions deck.
It serves as a powerful way to combine creative and critical thinking, helping us to explore our assumptions with a first-principles approach, prioritize the 'unknown and important' assumptions, and run experiments to validate or disconfirm them.
Use the arrows left and right to explore more applications.
Applications
Marketing Brainstorm
This Play provides step-by-step instructions for how to run a marketing or advertising brainstorming session.
Identify your target markets, potential media channels, and value proposition before moving on to ideation exercises, and finally validating your ideas through an evaluation process.
This Play can be cloned and adapted to include other thinking tools when you have a Pro membership (12 months included with every deck purchased – Bundle = 4 years).
Applications
Lunch & Learns
Level up your team's thinking with Kitted's cards in a Lunch & Learn session or other professional development context such as training days or during weekly retro meetings.
The Strategic Insights and Critical Thinking cards are particularly useful to this end.
Applications
Strategic advantage
This comprehensive step-by-step Play will help ensure your strategy is properly considered, and aligned with your objectives.
Move from Identification, through Goal Setting, Exploration, and Evaluation steps to formulate a well-informed strategic plan that could substantially improve your success.
Applications
Brand Workshop
A brand is not a logo, it's what's your stakeholders and customers believe about you.
A strong, clear, and aligned brand that resonates with your internal and external stakeholders can have profound positive effects. The tools and frameworks in this Play will help you to explore, define, apply, and communicate your true brand personality
Applications
Workshop it
Kitted provides a complete workshop design system, with modular tools you can swap and choose to suit any strategic objective; as well as interactive templates, helpful examples, and step-by-step instructions.
Use your cards to plan your workshops with a smorgasbord of options, as well as to facilitate by giving participants tactile prompts and actions.
Applications
Perspectives Brainstorm
This Play provides a range of perspectives to provoke consideration of different points of view in a brainstorming or strategy session.
Combine an orange brainstorming Action such as 10 Ideas in 10 Minutes with a perspective stimulus card such as The Customer or No Limits.
Applications
It's your jam
Many of Kitted’s Actions Thinking Tools are available as interactive FigJam templates.
Collaborate in real-time with your team while you’re together in the same room, working from home, or a mix of both.
Applications
Serendipity on the cards
Planning for creativity in workshops and other structured scenarios is certainly worthwhile, however the value of courting innovation through serendipity is substantial.
Simply having Kitted's cards on-hand as prompts for strategic, creative, and critical thinking in your meeting room or office can prove transformative.