How Creative Work Breaks Through to Executives

Andrew Clark

I have a creative title, I move business

Your design is excellent. Your influence on leadership isn't. Yet.

The current state

You are good at your craft. You have earned your seat. But somewhere between the design review and the executive briefing, your work loses altitude.

Senior creatives who work with executives run into the same invisible walls:

  • You present process. They want outcomes.

  • You use the language of design. They use the language of investment, risk, and organizational levers.

  • You’ve built good work. But you haven’t built a relationship roster, so when a decision gets made, you weren’t in the room where it happened.

  • Your identity and your reputation with senior leaders are not the same thing.

This isn’t a skills gap. It’s a paradigm gap. Executives think in a different operating system. This course teaches you to speak it fluently.

By the end of six sessions, you’ll be able to:

  • Reframe your mental model

  • Close the gap between your identity and your reputation

  • Build a deliberate relationship roster

  • Communicate in their language

  • Show up with executive-level presence

What you’ll learn

This isn’t a course about leadership theory. You leave with actions you can take the next day. You'll know yourself and executives better.

  • You will identify the 2–3 senior leaders worth cultivating, and leave with a 1:1 relationship plan you’ll actually use.

  • You can walk into any briefing, skip deck, or hallway conversation and communicate outcomes — not process.

  • You'll know the gap between how you see yourself and how senior leaders experience you. And design a deliberate plan to close it.

  • Create a routine to operate at the executive level — from how you prepare to how you show up when it counts

Learn directly from Andrew

Andrew Clark

Andrew Clark

Executive Design Leader, Creative coach & Venture mentor

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Who this course is for

  • Senior contributor moving toward leadership

    You’re skilled and credible on the team, but your work doesn’t get higher traction.

  • Design Manager building upward influence

    You’re responsible for the work and the team, but you’re always translating up, down and out.

  • Creative Director operating at the executive edge

    You’re already in the room. The challenge is converting proximity into influence.

What's included

Andrew Clark

Live sessions

Learn directly from Andrew Clark in a real-time, interactive format.

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

Reading List and Resources

Learn from a curated set of books, articles, videos, and podcasts

Self-directed exercises

Frameworks you can use the next day, and share with your peers and team.

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Course syllabus

9 live sessions • 9 lessons

Week 1

Jun 15—Jun 21

    Intro and Paradigms

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    Jun

    16

    Module 1 Live Session: Introductions and Paradigms - Kick Off

    Tue 6/164:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    Module 1: Pre-Work

    1 item

    Module 1: Reading & Watching Assignments

    1 item

Week 2

Jun 22—Jun 28

    Jun

    23

    Module 2: Live Session Relationships

    Tue 6/234:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    Jun

    26

    Fireside Chat with Guest

    Fri 6/264:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    Module 2: Post-Session Activity

    1 item

    Module 2: Relationship building

    1 item

Schedule

Live sessions

1 hr / week

Live interactive sessions with the entire cohort plus sharing breakout groups to dive deeper into individual exercises

    • Tue, Jun 16

      4:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    • Tue, Jun 23

      4:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

    • Fri, Jun 26

      4:00 PM—5:00 PM (UTC)

Projects

1 hr / week

Most weeks incorporate an exercise or self-assessments to be completed prior to the live session. These are durable artifacts reference over and over again.

Async content

1-3 hrs / week

There is a healthy resource list of books, articles, videos, and podcasts. Each week, we'll focus on certain portions or ideas from these resources.

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