The Future of Design

Three Keys to Building Influence Beyond Your Design Skills

Hosted by Mollie Cox

Mon, Feb 10, 2025

8:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)

Virtual (Zoom)

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What you'll learn

Quick-start guide to soft skills assessment

Learn a practical framework to evaluate your career-critical soft skills and identify growth opportunities.

Live framework demonstration

Watch a real-time walkthrough of how to assess one key soft skill using a proven scorecard template.

Immediate implementation guide

Get a simple template and quick-win strategies you can use right after the session.

Why this topic matters

The design industry increasingly values soft skills over technical expertise alone. Yet most designers lack a framework to evaluate and improve these critical capabilities, often hitting a career ceiling despite their technical excellence. Learn a practical system to assess your soft skills and unlock the career advancement opportunities you've been missing.

You'll learn from

Mollie Cox

Design and Product Leader, Founder • 15 + Years in Design • Currently @ Branch

For over 15 years, Mollie has taught, mentored, and led designers while building products across multiple industries. She's developed frameworks for design team growth and championed user-centered approaches in complex enterprise environments.


As Sr. Director of Product Design at Branch, she leads strategic design initiatives and manages a global product design team. Her experience teaching UX design at the University of Nebraska has given her unique insights into how designers learn and grow.


Throughout her career at companies like GRIN, Hudl, and Fleetio, she's built and scaled design teams from the ground up, developing evaluation frameworks and career development programs still in use today.


Mollie believes that technical skills alone aren't enough – real impact comes from mastering the soft skills that accelerate careers. In addition to her extensive product design leadership experience, she is the cohost of Bounce Podcast.

Previously at

University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Hudl
GRIN
Fleetio
Branch

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