Kits
Practical tools people can pick up and use.
Education and capability by Velvet Onion
A different way to learn business.
Practical kits, coaching and learning experiences designed to build fluency across the languages of business.
Business. Money. Brand. Product. Customer. Innovation. Growth. Technology. Self.
Learn the languages. Build the solutions of the future.
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01 / Business multilingualism
Real problems don’t respect department lines.
Traditional education often separates disciplines. Marketing sits in one area. Finance in another. Product somewhere else. Innovation somewhere else. Leadership and self-development somewhere else again.
Real business problems cross all of these boundaries.
Faster Zebra develops the ability to understand different business languages, move between them, connect them, make better decisions, develop judgement, practise, apply ideas and build.
This is larger than a training catalogue. It’s a point of view on what practical business education can become.
01 / Business02 / Money03 / Brand04 / Product05 / Customer06 / Innovation07 / Growth08 / Technology09 / Self
02 / The learning idea
Education should change what you can do.
Information has never been easier to find.
The valuable part of learning is developing judgement, making connections, making decisions, practising, testing and applying what you know when the answer isn’t obvious.
Faster Zebra combines practical tools, coaching, conversation and making.
You learn the way by doing the work.
Judgement. Practice. Making. Fluency. Confidence. Application. Reflection. Collaboration. Decision-making.
03 / Ways to learn
Choose your starting point, work on building your vision.
Less sitting.
More doing.
Individual coaching
Work directly on current ideas, problems, decisions and ventures.
Team coaching
Build shared capability using real organisational challenges.
Live learning experiences
Structured programmes, workshops and cohort experiences built around practice.
04 / The product ecosystem
Practical things for people making things.
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Young Founders
Practical tools for starting and building a business from the core.
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02
The Innovators
Tools and experiences for turning problems and opportunities into better products, services and ventures.
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03
Brand Mavericks
Practical brand development.
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04
Experience Design 4.0
Human-centred experience design for products, services and systems.
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05
Scar Bearers
A practical relationship with setbacks, uncertainty and learning.
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06
Psychonauts
Persuasion, behaviour and persuasive design.
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07
Be You
A young person’s exploration of identity, stripping away layers of who you have been told to be so that more of who you actually are can emerge.
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Los Originales
Practical tools for creativity.
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Experience carried forward.
Faster Zebra builds on decades of work across design, innovation, entrepreneurship and education, including Charbel Zeaiter’s experience founding Academy Xi in 2013 and helping build one of Australia’s early schools for emerging digital and design disciplines.
Faster Zebra asks a new question: what should practical business education look like now?
Faster Zebra is its own proposition.
06 / Start with the work
Build capability around something real.
Tell us about the idea, decision, team challenge or venture in front of you. We’ll help work out which format fits.
Your enquiry goes directly to the Velvet Onion team.