This course explores various perspectives on how participants can build learning organizations. The course begins with Senge's 5th Discipline, which states that learning organizations depend upon the mastery of five dimensions: systems thinking, personal mastery, mental models, building a shared vision, and team learning. Next, the class will explore a model of a learning organization which includes a learning environment, learning processes, and leadership support of learning along with an organizational assessment tool. Finally, the class will discover how the iterative processes involved in the systematic approach to problem-solving of design thinking fosters learning and innovation within organizations.