Go Deeper with Certificate Programs
Take your leadership skills further with a certificate program:
What You'll Learn
Introduction
Watch a sneak peek
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From Superpowers to Great Teams—A sneak peek of the course
3 Video Lessons
- Making Work Work—The three key ingredients
- Doing Great Work—Putting people at the center
- Doing Great Work—It starts with you
1 Assignment
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Reflect on Your Best Work: Thriving—as individuals, duos, teams, and as an entire company—starts with you. It starts with identifying and activating the best in yourself.
Lesson 1: Superpowers
3 Video Lessons
- Your Superpower—What were you put on Earth to do?
- What’s Your Superpower?—Stories of how they show up
- Your Superpower in Action—Using power wisely
1 Article
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Explore the Superpowers— Click through the gallery to explore all the superpowers.
1 Assignment
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Identify Your Superpowers—It's time to identify your superpowers. The Superpowers Card Sort is a quick, fun way to put a name to the things you do best—naturally, skillfully, and joyfully.
2 Activities
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Get to Know Your Superpower—Your superpower is the unique contribution you bring to your work, your team, and your life. This activity will help you zero in on that superpower.
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Make Your Superpower Plan—Awareness is just the beginning. Take action to amplify your superpower and mitigate its shadow side.
Lesson 2: Dynamic Duos
Watch a sneak peek
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Building Strong Bonds
3 Video Lessons
- Dynamic Duos—The power of two
- Building Strong Bonds—The smallest atomic unit of trust
- Triggers—Using empathy to strengthen relationships
3 Activities
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Map Your Duos—Build awareness of your core duos and search for patterns across them.
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Reflect on Triggers—More deeply understand your broken duos.
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Build Stronger Duos—Develop a plan to make your relationships more resilient.
Lesson 3: Great Teams
2 Video Lessons
- Ensembles—Six qualities of great teams
- Ensembles—Creating conditions for great teams
2 Assignments
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Assess Your Team—Take a pulse check of where you currently are as a group.
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Share Your Ritual—By sharing your ritual ideas with other learners, we hope to inspire more people to take agency in strengthening their teams and organizations.
Conclusion
1 Video Lesson
- Final Thoughts—Start small, start now
1 Activity
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Make a Plan of Action—Make a plan incorporating small steps you'll take to show up as your best self, strengthen your relationships, or set up your team to thrive.
1 Assignment
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What's the one thing you'll take away from this course? Maybe it's a quote or piece of advice or framework. How will you use it to design your business? Or, how have you started to use it already?
Meet Your Instructors

Keith Yamashita
SYPartners Chairman and Founder
Keith works with companies including Apple, IBM, Nike, and Starbucks to bring unique, human-centered approaches to business and social challenges. He is an author, essayist, and lecturer on leadership and design. He holds degrees in organizational behavior and economics from Stanford University.

Sara Kalick
Former Vice President, SYPartners
At SYPartners, Sara worked with clients including American Express, Planned Parenthood, Huawei, and Girl Effect to set bold visions and strategies and achieve their potential. She also helped develop a new SYPartners product, Leadfully, for emerging leaders. Sara holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from ESADE Business School.
Deepen Your Learning
Downloadable Workbook
Superpowers Cards
Ritual Cards
Certificate of Completion

Frequently Asked Questions
Self-paced courses are shorter learning experiences that you can enroll in at any time. They take anywhere from 1-8 hours to complete, and you are granted 90 days of access from the date and time of purchase. You can go through the class material at your own pace, referring back to the material throughout the access dates. There is no community component in on-demand courses.
All of our courses are fully online and self-paced, so you can take them from any time zone, anywhere in the world.
You can enroll in a self-paced course at any time. You will have 90-day access to all course content from date of purchase.
We provide a select portion of the course materials to download for future reference. Most self-paced courses, these resources are a Journey Map or Activity workbook.
You will have access to the videos throughout the course, however, you are not able to access or download them after 90 days from purchase date.
Loved by Learners Across the Globe
From Superpowers to Great Teams
Self-Paced Course“The skills taught in this course need to be taught to everyone. The way we work is changing and those who embrace the change will be the ones with not just great teams but with individuals who aren't just performing at their best but who have superpowers they know how to use.”
From Superpowers to Great Teams
Self-Paced Course“It forced me to think of people and my relationships in a way that I wouldn't have otherwise. It wasn't always comfortable but that's why it was meaningful.”
From Superpowers to Great Teams
Self-Paced Course“I've enjoyed the self-paced courses and think of them as a way to remember and reinvigorate my skill-set. They're beautifully executed as well.”
From Superpowers to Great Teams
Self-Paced Course“Great experience, lovely learning interfaces for virtual on demand learning, and nicely produced videos.”
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Enroll As a Team
The practice and application of design thinking, innovation, and creativity is highly collaborative and team based—which is why we believe that learning is better together. Take a course as a team and develop new skills and mindsets, have deeper discussion during course kickoff and debrief sessions, and build a shared understanding.