Overview
The world is your classroom in this innovative and intensive two-year, master's equivalent biomimicry certification program. Through a combination of experiential education and online learning, the Biomimicry Professional (BProfessional) Certification Program brings together some of the brightest minds in their fields for the opportunity to help redefine sustainable innovation as we know it.

Over the course of the two-year term, you will develop and refine your understanding of biomimicry theory and methodology with instruction by Dayna Baumeister and inspiration from Janine Benyus, two highly acclaimed thought-leaders who have literally defined the discipline worldwide. Of course, the organisms, natural processes, and ecosystems that have adapted and evolved over 3.8 billion years will also contribute their wisdom, lessons, and strategies to your education.


Learning Experience and Outcomes
The opportunity to apply biomimicry to real-world challenges is an integral part of your BProfessional Program, and previous graduates consider our design challenge to be the cornerstone of their education. The challenge provides hands-on biomimicry experience in a supportive, collaborative, and creative problem-solving environment. It also enables you to practice the skill most critical to your success with biomimicry: communication across disciplines.

To foster this skill, the BProfessional Program creates a diverse learning environment comprised of five designers, five biologists, five engineers, and five businesspeople from around the world. The program is extremely competitive and attracts participants who are highly influential in their professional networks and aspire to be "trim tab" thinkers and doers. We have carefully chosen four broad categories—design, biology, engineering, and business—that also include related sub-disciplines such as interior design and architecture.

The BProfessional Program prepares graduates to address solutions to some of the most pressing and varied global challenges, such as climate change, resistance to antibiotics, toxic chemical proliferation, and fair and healthy housing. In short, this program will not only transform the way you view, build and elevate your career, but also inspire how you will positively transform our world.


Ecosystem Exploration Plan

Program Instructors:
	Lead Program Instructor Dayna Baumeister, PhD Co-founder Biomimicry 3.8 Based in Helena, Montana, USA Watch Dayna's talk: Innotown 2011
	Biomimicry & Design Instructor Erin Leitch, CBP Director of Professional Development, Biomimicry 3.8 Based in Mexico City, Mexico
	Biomimicry & Business Instructor Zeynep Arhon, CBP Founder, TrendDesk Based in Istanbul, Turkey
	Biology Taught Functionally Instructor Karen Allen, CBP Ecologist Based in Bend, Oregon, USA
	Biomimicry & Engineering Instructor Marie Zanowick, CBP US Environmental Protection Agency Based in Boulder, Colorado, USA