I have a creative title, I move business

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
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

Executive Design Leader, Creative coach & Venture mentor
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.

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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9 live sessions • 9 lessons
Jun
16
Jun
23
Jun
26
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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Reimbursement
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