A growing number of organisations have adopted customer journey mapping not only as a way to visualise customer experiences, but also as a management approach to connect strategy, operations, and customer outcomes. However, they recognise that the true challenge is not in producing different zoom-level maps, comprehensive atlases, or playbooks, but in embedding journey management into the operating model of the organisation. At this stage, CJM becomes a discipline for managing customer lifecycles, aligning functions around shared outcomes, and enabling business transformation at scale. The complexity increases as journeys intersect, data systems expand, and governance demands become critical.
This 12-week course acknowledges those challenges and builds on the solid foundation participants already have, taking them beyond the basics into advanced application. The course takes you deep into the discipline of journey management, combining advanced methods, governance models, and data-driven practices to elevate how you design, maintain, and scale journeys. Through online lessons, live interactive sessions, and peer-to-peer learning, you will not only refine your technical mastery of CJM but also develop the leadership and organisational practices required to embed it sustainably. You will equip yourself and your team to advance managing journey maps as dynamic management tools that guide strategy, operations, and innovation, truly uncovering insights and further guiding your organisation in customer-centric transformation.
This course is part of the Customer Journey Management Mastery Program, equipping professionals with the skills to enable active journey governance and optimisation by learning how CJM fits into the broader customer management and service strategy discipline, functioning as a practice that spans internal structures, cultural mindsets, governance models, service orchestration, and operational capabilities. The program is relevant for organisations responding to challenges such as declining retention, inconsistent service delivery and customer experience, departmental misalignment, or the need for better customer insights. It is equally applicable to those undergoing digital transformation or seeking to differentiate through service. Professionals completing the program will be positioned to support journey-led transformation, shaping initiatives grounded in real-world needs and delivering measurable impact across channels, processes, and teams.
For whom
This advanced course is designed for senior professionals, leaders, and their teams who have recently started with, or are already engaged in CJM. It is intended for those responsible for customer experience, digital transformation, service design, or operational excellence, and who are seeking a more deliberate, structured approach.
In this 12-week Master’s level course, you will follow a series of lessons bundled in 12 chapters. Each Monday, the online lessons for that week are unlocked. Each week, you will join a live, interactive class of 2 hours, designed to further let you dive into CJM (recordings will be made available). You can study the content, watch the videos, and do the exercises at your own pace. Because you start at the same time as your fellow participants, you will be able to discuss, exchange feedback, and work on exercises together. Learning with and from your peers is one of the guiding principles of our courses.
All lessons are online, and live sessions will take place via Zoom.
This course is worth 60 SDC study points. You will receive a certificate of completion.
Service design, organisational design, CX, business design, design thinking, strategic design, systems thinking
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Itziar Pobes (Spain) is a seasoned design leader, experienced in establishing service design practices in government and global, corporate environments, anchoring consumer lifecycles as organisation-wide guiding principles for cross-functional alignment, to positively impact organisation's long-term success.

Marzia Aricò (Italy) is an executive coach and consultant, former (Managing) Design Director at Livework, supporting organisations to reorient around their customers, work on their mindset, culture, practices, and leadership to embed the customer perspective and thrive through change.

Regina Beyhl (Germany) is an experienced design leader. As Director of CX Design at Philips and Co-Creation Director at social business consultancy Favela Fabric, she has supported design-led change and CJM/innovation programs across industries for many years.

Inge Keizer (The Netherlands) is a service design leader specialised in strategic design, creative leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurship. She is a conceptual thinker, and an experienced design researcher.

Felipe Camara (Brazil) is a service design leader and strategist, currently Design Director at IKEA. He is a multi-faceted experience designer specialising in journey management and leading organisations through systemic change, embedding service design into business strategy, innovation, and sustainable growth.

Marc Stickdorn (Germany) is a passionate advocate for service design, journey management, and human-centred design in general. As the founder and CEO of Smaply, he helped shape the market for journey mapping and management software.
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