Create New Paradigms
Signature Course No. 20 — A Signature AI Socratic Coaching Course.
A New Kind of Learning
Socratic coaching, delivered by an agentic AI coach.
Not a course you watch. An AI coach you work with.
The Lighthouse Coach begins by discovering how you think about the subject, teaches what is missing, and gives you realistic practice before asking you to prove that you can use it. You may test out of concepts you already understand, while capstones turn the learning into a practical plan, decision, conversation, or other real-world result.
The curriculum is deliberately authored; the AI delivers it through coaching. It is not an AI randomly generating lessons.
A coach that teaches by asking — not by lecturing
The Lighthouse Coach is an AI Socratic coach built on Cognosco Learning's Create New Paradigms course, in the Personal Effectiveness & Well-Being category. It does not play videos at you. It holds a conversation: it asks you a question, listens to your answer, names the misconception it hears, affirms what you got right, and asks the next question — the way a great coach works in the room.
This is the course for leaders and change agents who want to work on the rules nobody wrote down — the shared, unspoken assumptions that decide what an organization can see, try, and become.
The course works in the order the work actually happens: first, see the paradigm — surface the unspoken assumptions, judge which of them are still alive, and learn to challenge them without contempt for the people who built them; then, build the new one — reframe the problem, work the creative thinking frameworks on it, pilot the new way small, carry the people through the move, and make the new way stick.
You finish by proving the whole course — in The Assumption Audit and in The Reinvention Plan. You can type your answers, or talk out loud: the Voice Coach speaks its questions and listens to your spoken replies, hands-free. The course is self-paced and always on — roughly 30 minutes per concept, about 9 hours in full, taken in as many sittings as you like. Learners who already know the material can test out concept by concept.
This course teaches the skill on original scenarios, built for learning. Widely known paradigm shifts are alluded to only in general terms, and no named-company case history is presented as fact — you learn the moves yourself, on situations made for the work, rather than borrowing a polished story about somebody else's company.
Second, the lane: this is paradigm-led change — the organization's shared, unspoken rules are the target, and the thinking changes first so the work can follow. Where those courses work on the leader or the person, this one works on the shared thinking the whole organization runs on.
This is the twentieth course in The Lighthouse Signature Series — the online counterpart to the one-day, in-person learning Cognosco Learning has delivered since 2002.
Course Facts
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Map First → Learn & Practice → Prove → Capstone
Every learner moves through the same discipline a Cognosco instructor would insist on in the room.
Map First
The Coach starts by finding out what you already know and which unspoken rules you are working inside today. Everyone begins with Module 1 — no skipping the foundations you only think you have.
Learn & Practice
Work each concept in conversation with the Coach — spoken or written — then practice it against realistic situations until it holds up.
Prove
Every concept ends in proof: answer the check cold and demonstrate the skill. Know it already? Test out and take credit immediately.
Capstone
Finish with two capstones — The Assumption Audit for Module 1 and The Reinvention Plan for Module 2 — that pull the whole course together, and earn the certificate.
What You'll Learn
Every organization operates within a set of unspoken assumptions — mental models about how things should be done. Over time, these paradigms become invisible constraints that limit growth and stifle innovation.
This course is designed for leaders and change agents who want to identify those hidden assumptions, challenge them constructively, and guide their teams toward new ways of thinking and operating. You will learn frameworks for creative problem-solving, study real examples of paradigm shifts in business, and practice facilitating conversations that help teams break free from "we have always done it this way" thinking. By the end of the day, you will have a concrete plan for driving meaningful change within your organization.
What you will learn
- Recognize and challenge limiting organizational paradigms
- Apply creative thinking frameworks to real business problems
- Lead teams through transformational change
- Build a culture that embraces innovation and reinvention
Everything in the course
- All 18 concepts of Create New Paradigms, in 2 modules
- A starting-point check first — the Coach finds where you actually stand before teaching
- Learn, Practice, Prove for every concept — no passive video watching
- A test-out on every concept: prove you know it and move on
- The Voice Coach: talk with the Coach out loud — it speaks, listens, and replies
- A personal Learner Record of your work across the course
- Two capstone exercises: The Assumption Audit and The Reinvention Plan
- A printable session summary whenever you pause
- The Lighthouse Coach completion certificate (Signature Series)
- Your progress is saved as you go — stop anytime, resume where you left off
Built for individuals and teams
Create New Paradigms is for leaders and change agents — senior leaders who can feel the organization solving yesterday's problems well, team leaders and managers who keep meeting the same wall, and founders and owners whose original formula has become the ceiling: recognize and challenge limiting organizational paradigms, apply creative thinking frameworks to real business problems, lead teams through transformational change, and build a culture that embraces innovation and reinvention.
The skill is taught on original scenarios, and widely known paradigm shifts are alluded to only in general terms — no named-company case history is presented as fact. The work stays in its lane: paradigm-led change, the organization's shared, unspoken rules.
Prefer to learn live and in person? The same material anchors Cognosco's one-day programs — browse the in-person catalog.
Start with The Assumption Audit
$195 — introductory price. One payment. No subscription, no password to manage.
Here is exactly what happens when you enroll:
- Pay securely with Stripe — you are taken straight into the course
- Create your learner profile and begin the Module 1 starting-point check
- Save the access key you are given — it restores your enrollment on any device
- Learn at your pace; your progress is stored in your browser on your device
For the full voice experience, use Chrome and allow the microphone when asked. Typing your answers works everywhere, all the time. Questions before you enroll? Email hello@cognoscolearning.com.
More Signature Courses are coming
Create New Paradigms is Signature Course No. 20. Leave your email and we'll send you news of future Signature Courses and Lighthouse updates as they are announced — nothing else.