June 2023 Cohort

Design isn't one-size-fits-all, create a leadership playbook unique to your superpowers, team needs, and organizational dynamics.

Tiffany Chen

Unlock Your Design Leadership Playbook

Leading design teams isn’t about following a one-size-fits-all playbook. In this 2-week course, you will unlock your design leadership voice, style, and approach by building on your superpowers, adapting best practices to your team’s unique needs, and leveraging tangible tools to cultivate a creative culture authentic to you and your organization.

Lead with confidence, creativity, and in community.

Early career design leaders who want to level up their leadership confidence and craft

First-time design managers who want to build their foundational design leadership and management skills

Senior/lead designers who want to grow into team leadership and/or design management roles

Who is this course for

What you’ll get out of this course

Identify, synthesize, and articulate your leadership voice, style, and approach. You'll walk away with tangible tools that will enable you to revisit and reflect on how these qualities evolve over time.

A clear understanding and articulation of your leadership superpowers

Learn and practice how to model vulnerability, listen with empathy, and set transparent expectations with your team. You'll walk away with tangible tools to help you build trust with your team and conduct more effective 1:1s.

Best practices and frameworks for building impactful and inclusive team relationships

Decode and deconstruct the mechanics of designing team critiques and creative rituals. You'll walk away with tangible tools to guide your next design critique and design creative rituals for your team.

Models and methods for cultivating a creative and inspiring design culture

Understand and apply strategies that will enable you to effectively manage up and facilitate alignment within your organization. You'll walk away with tangible tools to help you mobilize design across your organization and map spheres of influence.

Mindsets and strategies to establish influence and impact as a design leader within your organization

Uncover and define your design leadership superpowers

Build impactful and inclusive relationships with your design team

Build a culture of creative excellence & inspiration

Establish influence and impact

Course syllabus

Experience Designer & Illustrator at IDEO.org

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Uncover and define your design leadership superpowers <ul><li>Identify, synthesize, and articulate your leadership superpowers.</li><li>You'll walk away with tangible tools that will enable you to revisit and reflect on how these qualities evolve over time.</li></ul>

Week 1 // Tuesday

Build impactful and inclusive relationships with your design team<ul><li>Learn and practice how to model vulnerability, listen with empathy, and set transparent expectations with your team.</li><li>You'll walk away with tangible tools to help you conduct more effective 1:1s</li></ul>

Week 1 // Thursday

Build a culture of creative excellence &amp; inspiration<ul><li>Decode and deconstruct the mechanics of designing team critiques and creative rituals.</li><li>You'll walk away with tangible tools to guide your next design critique and design creative rituals for your team.</li></ul>

Week 2 // Tuesday

Establish influence and impact within your organization<ul><li>Understand and apply strategies that will enable you to effectively manage up and facilitate alignment within your organization.</li><li>You'll walk away with tangible tools to help you mobilize design across your organization.</li></ul>

Week 2 // Thursday

The first 5 people to sign up will receive a complimentary 30 min coaching session.

1:1 Coaching Session (for early signup)

Course schedule

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Active hands-on learning

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Interactive and project-based

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

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