6-Week Live Program · Starts July 14

Stunts fade.
Systems scale.
Learn the difference.

The Experiential Strategy Program teaches you to design, sell, and scale brand experiences that survive contact with reality. Built and taught by the people running it inside the world's leading experiential agencies.

Duration
6 Weeks
Format
Live · Zoom
Hours
24 Total
Tuition
$825
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The Shift

Experiential stopped being an event. It became infrastructure.

The one-off activation is dead.

Brands no longer think in moments. They think in ecosystems. Pre, during, post. Touchpoints, friction, flow, memory. The work moved from the production floor to the strategy table, and most people never made the jump.

This program is that jump. Six weeks of designing experiences as systems, defending them with data, and selling them to the rooms where budgets actually live.

01

Design as architecture

Build experiences with structure, not stunts. Pre, during, and post as one connected system.

02

Strategy that survives reality

Find the real problem behind the brief. Read audience tension, behavior, and cultural entry points.

03

Defend the work

Measure what matters, build the business case, and pitch in CMO language, not creative jargon.

Curriculum

Six weeks. Twelve sessions. One executable system.

01Jul 14 · 16

The Experiential Shift

From Campaigns to Experience Systems
ZGZoé Ganch · ECD, Factory360
1.1 — The New Role of Experiential
  • Stunt to strategy: how the discipline grew up
  • Why brands think in ecosystems, not events
  • Where experiential sits in modern marketing orgs
1.2 — Experience Architecture
  • Designing pre / during / post experiences
  • Touchpoints, friction, flow, and memory
  • How experiences create meaning, not just attention
02Jul 21 · 23

Strategy That Survives Reality

Audience, Brand & Behavioral Thinking
JVJanina Volpe · Co-founder, Vacation KHKianna Hendricks · GPJ
2.1 — Strategic Foundations
  • Defining the real problem, not the brief
  • Audience tension, context, and behavior
  • When experiential is the right answer, and when it isn't
2.2 — Designing for Human Behavior
  • Why people participate, or don't
  • Friction, reward, status, ritual
  • Designing for emotion and action
03Jul 28 · 30

From Idea to Executable System

Creative Thinking with Constraints
VAVesi Angelova · CD, TEAM
3.1 — Experiential Ideation
  • How experiential ideas are born differently
  • Format-first thinking, modularity, scalability
  • Local vs. global execution systems
3.2 — Prototyping & Rapid Testing
  • Stress-testing ideas early
  • Prototyping without over-producing
  • Pressure-testing against constraints
04Aug 4 · 6

Tech & AI as Experience Infrastructure

Systems, Not Gimmicks
JCJosh Corn · Partner, Double Take Labs
4.1 — AI in Experiential Design
  • AI as a strategic partner, not a shortcut
  • Exploring formats, variations, scenarios
  • Audience simulation and decision-making
4.2 — Technology as Participation Engine
  • Data and real-time systems in experiences
  • Personalization vs. surveillance
  • When tech adds value, when it destroys the idea
05Aug 11 · 13

Capstone & Industry Reality

Pressure, Feedback & Refinement
VAVesi Angelova · CD, TEAM
5.1 — Final Build & Rehearsal
  • Refining your experience system
  • Tightening narrative and rationale
  • Preparing for real-world critique
5.2 — Final Presentations
  • Present to industry leaders
  • Direct, actionable feedback
  • Clarity, logic, and execution
06Aug 18 · 20

Measurement, ROI & Selling the Work

Making Experiential Defensible
GNGabriela Neves · Partner & President, Factory360
6.1 — Measurement & Learning
  • What experiential can and cannot measure
  • Defining success before ideation
  • Data capture with ethics and intent
6.2 — Selling Experiences
  • Pitching skeptical clients and stakeholders
  • Turning experiences into business cases
  • Speaking CMO, not creative jargon
Final Masterclass

The Future of Experiential Leadership

Experiential as business strategy. Where leaders are emerging, how careers evolve, and what separates senior thinkers from executors over the next decade. With a senior experiential leader, agency and brand-side.

August 25
Faculty

Not professors. Practitioners.

Enrollment

Seats are limited, and they're limited for a reason.

This is live, six weeks, and built for people ready to lead the work, not watch it. If that's you, claim a seat.

Full Program
US$825
One-time tuition · all 12 sessions + masterclass
  • Duration6 weeks
  • Sessions2 per week · 2 hrs
  • Total hours24 live
  • FormatLive on Zoom
  • CapstonePresented to industry
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