Critical 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 Spaces for Collaboration, AI and Language, and The Economics of Creativity.
This will be the first in-person CBS, running throughout 2026.
Conventional education traverses between editorial (using the canon) and pedagogical (imparting skills). It leaves participants 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, 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.
Index Space
698 Manhattan Ave
Brooklyn, NY
Nitzan is an accomplished coach and educator, specializing in complexity design, innovation, creative team dynamics, and communication. He holds faculty positions at Parsons and has a background in teaching economics theory, interaction design, and creative computing. Nitzan was an inaugural member and former coach-in-residence at NEW INC, the New Museum incubator for arts and technology.
$500 per month. Membership to CBS includes two full days of access to Index's premier co-working space (Monday and Thursday). Hour-long meetings are convened on these days from midday.
Electives and Salons, in New York and online — programmed through our Luma calendar.
Being in Space is Nitzan's Substack on creative surplus and the work of integrating it. Latest dispatches:
AI Literacy
The thinking behind the AI Literacy for Creatives elective, published in installments. Start the series on Substack.
The AI Literacy Library is a working shelf at Index Greenpoint — borrow on the honor system, return when you're done. On the shelf now:
The latest references, links, and media feeding the program — most recently added to Are.na.
AI Literacy brings CBS into companies — three 90-minute workshops for teams who already use AI every day and want shared vocabulary for where it helps, where it gets in the way, and what to do with the difference. On-site or remote.