Critical Business School

Greenpoint, New York


Critical Business School is a year-long, in-person and online design program based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The program will equip professionals with the critical thinking and practical skills needed to innovate in complex environments. 

Participants will learn transformational skills; prompt writing for humans (and AI), methods to harness creative surplus, the art of holding space for others, and economic articulation.

Critical Business School will consist of two parts—a core weekly course on topics of the self, transformation, and leadership. And a set of electives on topics ranging from typography, AI R&D, branded world building, and bio design.

Electives are 4, 8, or 12 weeks long and include designated learning outcomes, readings, and a culminating project/assignment. 
WhatCritical Business School has run for the last five years, hosting 200+ alumni spread across Europe and the United States. The course has covered a wide range of topics, including (among others) Spaces for Collaboration, AI and Language, and The Economics of Creativity.


This will be the first in-person version of CBS, and will run throughout 2026.


WhyConventional education traverses between editorial (using the canon) and pedagogical (imparting skills). It leaves participants (students) fending for themselves when it comes to independent, diverse forms of thinking and being. In my work as a Coach, I see the value of self-leadership firsthand. In my teaching work, I never tell students what to think; instead I ask them to articulate the value in their thoughts. It is this criticality that nurtures generosity.


Where698 Manhattan Ave
Brooklyn, NY


ElectivesJan Wilker 
Where the ‘local' meets ‘global', and micro-publishing.

Jordan Czamanski
Intuition as Method
Improvisation, Spontaneity, and Decision Making

Leslie Bradshaw
Selling Growth

Nikita Huggins
How to Eat a Mango: Culture, Research, Mediation


Stefani Bardin 
Strategic questioning, observation, and listening techniques for human-machine collaboration.

Sam Spurlin
The Three-Body Problem: Deliberate Experimentation and Finding Agency Across Societal, Organizational, and Individual Complexity


WhoNitzan is an accomplished Coach and Educator, specializing in complexity design, innovation, creative team dynamics, and communication. He holds faculty positions at Parsons, where he teaches on these subjects, and has a robust background in teaching economics theory, interaction design, and creative computing. Nitzan was formerly an inaugural member and former coach-in-residence at NEW INC, the New Museum incubator for arts and technology.


https://in-process.net





Cost$500 per month. Early-bird Discount: 15%.
Membership to CBS will include two full days of access to Index's premier co-working space (Monday and Thursday). Our hour-long meetings will be convened on these days from midday.