Becoming a high performing strategic designer

practical skills and tangible tools to accelerate your career immediately

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Becoming a high performing strategic designer

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Strategic Design Career Accelerator

Jacalin Ding

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Strategic Design Career Accelerator

Jacalin Ding

What you'll learn

Future Proof Design Career by Improving Strategic Thinking

Understand business decision-making and think like a business leader with a heart of a designer.

Gain Trust by Influence Strategically

Learn to align design with business goals and become an influential partner.

Manage Up and Across Effectively

Practical tips to boost performance in your day-to-day work to improve working relationships with leaders and your team.

Why this topic matters

As designers advance into senior roles, staying within the 'design' bubble can limit career growth. Building business acumen and effectively communicating the value of design are crucial next steps. By mastering these skills, you will gain trust, deliver impactful results, and excel as a strategic thinker in both your professional and personal life.

You'll learn from

Jacalin Ding

Product Design Leader | Coached 350+ Designers | Top-NPS-ranked GA instructor

Jacalin Ding is a seasoned product design leader and business strategist with over 15 years of experience in building design teams and products.

She has collaborated with startups, enterprises, and agencies across New York, Vancouver, Tokyo, Singapore, and Sydney.

Jacalin has worked directly with CEOs and founders and help raised millions in funding for their businesses.

Jacalin is a business thinker with a designer heart. She founded a design label and grew it into a side hustle that generated multi six-figure annual revenue.

Since 2019, Jacalin has coached over 350 designers to amplify their impacts by connecting design to business success. She has since facilitated more than 70 workshops that have impacted over 10,000 creative problem solvers worldwide.

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