Courses
Multi-day, guided programs to get real results
Course2 weeks
Design Leadership at Scale: Executive
Shape the future of business. Develop the vision, strategy, and influence to make design a critical driver of transformation.
4.8(68)
·Oct 5 – Oct 15Course2 weeks
Design Leadership at Scale: Director
Learn the core principles of effective design leadership in scaled enterprises
4.7(28)
Course10 days
Design Leadership at Scale: Operations
Learn best practices to build a durable design organization operating system.
4.2(11)
Course2 days
Design Leadership at Scale: Career Strategy
Executive career frameworks and decision tools to define your path, increase leverage, and make intentional next moves as a design leader.
4.6(9)
Workshops
Single-day, hands-on sprints to practice new skills
Lightning Lessons
Free, interactive sessions to explore new topics
Lightning Lesson45 minutes
How Top Design Leaders Influence At Scale
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How Design Leaders Stand Out in a Competitive Market
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Team Tactics for Increasing Influence + Impact
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Org Design For Your Design Org
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Design in Context: Mapping Your Role in a X-functional Org
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Designing Your Design Team
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12 Qualities of Effective Design Teams
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How Design Leaders Stand Out In A Competitive Market
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Strategic Design Leadership: Essential Questions for Design Executives
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Alumni reviews
If you're curious about what considerations you need to be thinking about, there's no one better to hear it from than Rachel. She has a way of breaking complex things down and explaining them extremely well while completely avoiding jargon. Beyond helpful context as I start to plan for my team's future.
Mike
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Creative Director · AKQA
Loved the challenging/provocative style, real-life examples, insights from other industry leaders and thought exercises.
Marlene
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VP Consumer UX · HelloFresh
In a time when we’re constantly bombarded with information and pressure to keep up with AI, this course gave me space to slow down and think about what actually matters. It helped me get clearer on the role design can play in the age of AI, and what I can do as a leader to better communicate and amplify the value design brings to the business.
Gosia
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Associate Design Director · Click Therapeutics
The AI-Native Leader is one of the most thought-provoking executive workshops I’ve attended. Rachel Kobas challenges conventional thinking with a practical, research-backed perspective on how AI is reshaping leadership, and why design’s greatest value is moving upstream into business strategy, judgment, and decision-making. I left with frameworks I can immediately apply, not just ideas to think about.
Amy
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VP Experience · Decisively Different
Deep, thought- and insightful curated curriculum with lots of pragmatic inspirations to get started in changing how we deliver products going forward.
Gaby
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Head of Product Design, Business Suite, SAP SE · SAP SE