THNK School of Creative Leadership

THNK was founded as a joint initiative by business and creative sectors, and in cooperation with the Dutch Prime Minister and the Dutch Innovation Platform.

We launched our first program in March 2012. Currently, over 400 participants have taken part in our Creative Leadership Program. At the end of 2014, we opened our first international locations in Vancouver and Lisbon.

Dubbed by Stanford University as “the future of higher education”, THNK stands for creativity, business model innovation, and entrepreneurship for social impact.

While a ‘B-School’ professionalizes management and a ‘D-School’ does the same for product design, THNK is a ‘C-School’ that applies creativity for positive change at scale.

THNK’s research focuses on Scaling – understanding the conditions and factors that help to make an innovative, socially relevant business concept take root and grow. THNK has developed several articles, a book, and a range of tools to explore the topic, and has partnered with Deloitte to access a rich database of tens of millions of fast-growing companies around the globe.