Become the Design Leader Your Team Needs Now

Part of Accelerate Your Career

Hosted by Amanda George

Tue, Jul 21, 2026

4:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

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From Instinct to Influence: Design Leadership in Half a Day
Amanda George
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What you'll learn

How great leaders set a quality bar their teams can meet

Three practical ways to define quality without becoming the bottleneck.

What taste actually is (and why AI can't replace it)

Why the real differentiator in an AI-driven design world isn’t output, it’s judgment.

How to build a culture where craft still matters

How strong standards and psychological safety work together to produce better work.

Why this topic matters

When anyone can generate a UI in minutes, taste and craft become your team's biggest competitive advantage. Design leaders who can stay close to the work, and build cultures where craft thrives are the ones whose teams will stand apart. You'll leave this session with a a clear way to define quality your team can hold without you in the room.

You'll learn from

Amanda George

Product Design Executive | Former Design Leader at Zillow & Meta

Amanda George is a product design leader and start-up advisor who helps teams raise the bar on product quality and develop a culture of excellence.

Over the past decade she has led design across large-scale consumer products at Zillow and Meta, partnering with product and engineering leaders to shape experience strategy, define quality standards, and guide teams through complex product challenges. Her teams have designed and shipped products used by hundreds of millions of people.

She is particularly interested in how leaders create environments where great work can happen consistently, through clear standards, strong feedback cultures, and a shared understanding of what good means.

Today she focuses on helping designers transition from being great at the craft to leading the craft, developing the judgment, frameworks, and leadership habits needed to guide high-quality work in an era increasingly shaped by AI.

Led teams at

Zillow
Meta
Equinox
Huge
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