Learn the skills of the 21st century.
Hands-on courses, simulations, and workshops that teach the one skill every field now demands: working well across disciplines. Built on published research, delivered by people who do this work for a living — for you, or for your whole team.
Skills you can use on Monday.
Most training teaches you a tool. Ours teaches you how to think and work with people who don’t share your training — engineers with designers, researchers with producers, the finance team with the creative one. That is the skill that decides whether a project works, and almost nobody is taught it on purpose.
We turn hard-won expertise in collaboration, data, and communication into learning you can apply right away: short modules, real exercises, a reflection, and a job to try before the week is out. No fluff, no ivory tower.
For you, or for the whole team.
IndividualsFor individuals
New to the workforce, changing fields, or moving into a role that needs you to coordinate people you don’t manage? Build the collaboration and boundary-crossing skills the job actually runs on — at your own pace, about 30 minutes to start each learning week.
OrganizationsFor organizations
Enroll a cohort in an existing course or get a workshop built around your goals, your tools, and your real problems. Live, online, or hybrid; English, Spanish, or both.
Start with one of these.
Self-paced, priced for individuals, and built to be run as a cohort for teams.
ApprenticeshipTransdisciplinary Intelligence Apprenticeship
Thirteen ways of thinking, two historical exemplars each — from Galileo and Marie Curie to the Eames and Frida Kahlo. One module a week, then a real-world assignment and a reflection. The first module is free.
Simulation gameSimulation Game: Transdisciplinary Intelligence
Run a transdisciplinary team or project in a game-based simulation, and practice the calls that make cross-disciplinary work succeed or stall.
Thirteen ways of thinking.
The Apprenticeship borrows the habits of mind of people who crossed boundaries for a living — one way of thinking a week, each taught through two historical exemplars chosen for range across disciplines, countries, and gender.
- 01ScientistGalileo Galilei · Marie Curie
- 02EngineerLeonardo da Vinci · Lillian Gilbreth
- 03DesignerThe Eames · Buckminster Fuller
- 04ArtistFrida Kahlo · Pablo Picasso
- 05HumanistSor Juana Inés de la Cruz
- 06EntrepreneurMadam C.J. Walker · Raoul Cortez
- 07EducatorMaria Montessori · Friedrich Fröbel
- 08ApprenticeBenjamin Franklin · Ada Lovelace
- 09ExpertGarry Kasparov · Wangari Maathai
- 10CollaboratorGertrude Stein · Vannevar Bush
- 11MentorStella Adler & New Hollywood
- 12HybridJulio Ottino · Diana Dabby
- 13AmphibianHedy Lamarr · Charles Csuri
Plus an opening module — What is Transdisciplinary Intelligence? — with the case of bioacoustics.
How you learn.
Experiential
You learn by doing. Every module ends with something to try in your real work, not a quiz to pass.
Iterative
Practice, feedback, repeat. A knowledge check across both exemplars, then a reflection a day later, is how the skill sticks.
Networked
You learn with and from others. Cohorts and simulations put you next to people from other fields — the cohort is the community, and that is the point.
The rhythm: about 30 minutes of module at the start of each week; the rest of the week is for the activity and a short reflection.
Train the whole team.
Cohort courses and custom workshops that build real, applicable skills — designed and delivered by the team behind Nowadays Orange Consulting.
Talk
A short consult to understand your team and goals.
Design
We scope the right mix of courses and workshops.
Deliver
Live, online, or hybrid.
Reinforce
Materials and follow-ups so it sticks.
English, Spanish, or both.
Dr. Alex Garcia Topete
Researcher, producer, and entrepreneur; PhD in Arts, Technology & Emerging Communication (UT Dallas), where his research focused on how teams collaborate across disciplines to produce knowledge. The courses draw on that published, peer-reviewed work — and on 15+ years of doing it in media, technology, and consulting.
More about Alex →Google Scholar (opens in a new tab)ORCID (opens in a new tab)
Start on Monday.
Pick a course and begin this week — the Apprenticeship’s first module is free — or tell us about your team and we’ll scope the right program. Questions first? We reply within one business day.