Design Leader, ex-Slack, Pinterest

AI is accelerating how quickly teams can produce work. As execution becomes easier, what differentiates senior designers isn’t output alone, it’s judgment.
The designers who grow aren’t necessarily doing more work. They’re helping others understand the decisions behind the work, influencing direction, and making their impact visible in the moments that matter.
This course is for senior product designers who consistently deliver great work but struggle to articulate their value. You may be known as reliable, collaborative, and highly capable, yet still find it difficult to communicate your thinking in stakeholder conversations, growth discussions, promotion cycles, or other career-defining moments.
Together, we’ll focus on the skills that become increasingly important as your career grows: communicating decisions, building influence, navigating ambiguity, and making strong judgment visible to the business.
This course includes:
👉 Weekly live group coaching sessions
👉 Async support on artifacts, communication, stakeholder situations, and other moments where you want feedback applying what you’re learning in practice
Move beyond execution and stand out for how you think, communicate, and shape decisions
Structure design reviews so conversations focus on decisions, not catching people up on context
Frame recommendations in ways that resonate with product, engineering, and leadership
Communicate your thinking clearly in high-stakes conversations, even when you don’t have time to prepare the perfect response
Turn 1:1s from status updates into strategic conversations
Share meaningful progress without constant self-promotion
Create lightweight visibility habits that help stakeholders understand your impact over time
Tailor the same recommendation for different audiences
Communicate design rationale using language that resonates beyond the design team
Build alignment by making tradeoffs and decisions easier to understand
Communicate impact without sounding self-promotional
Build a professional narrative that survives project transitions, reorganizations, and changing stakeholders
Become known for your judgment, not just your output

Staff-level designer with 15+ years leading product teams across 3 continents

Senior product designers who ship consistently but are still seen as executors when promotions, reviews, and visibility matter
Designers on distributed teams who struggle to communicate judgment clearly across async updates, reviews, and reorgs.
Designers growing into strategic partners who want influence through strong thinking, not self-promotion.

Live sessions
Learn directly from Cheryl Chepusova in a real-time, interactive format.
Community of peers
Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.
Lifetime access
Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.
APAC-friendly timing
This course is uniquely timed so designers in Asia timezones can fully participate in live sessions — no more joining past midnight or missing out.
Maven Guarantee
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4 live sessions • 5 projects
Jun
2
Communicating Design Decisions with Conviction
Jun
4
Lead Cross-Functional Conversations with Clarity
Jun
9
Make Your Work Visible Every Week
Jun
11
What People Trust You For
Live sessions
4 hrs
Come prepared to unpack why communicating your work is hard, practice clearer ways to speak about decisions and taste, and stand out with strategic impact while learning directly from other product designers in the room.
Tue, Jun 2
2:00 PM—3:00 PM (UTC)
Thu, Jun 4
2:00 PM—3:00 PM (UTC)
Tue, Jun 9
2:00 PM—3:00 PM (UTC)
Thu, Jun 11
2:00 PM—3:00 PM (UTC)
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