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Unlock Your Design Leadership Playbook

New
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2 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

Design isn't one-size-fits-all, create a leadership playbook unique to your superpowers, team needs, and organizational dynamics.

Hosted by

Tiffany Chen

Former IDEO Director, with over a decade of experience leading design teams

Course overview

Lead with confidence, creativity, and in community.

Leading design teams isn’t about following a one-size-fits-all playbook.


In this 2-week course, you will unlock your design leadership voice, style, and approach by building on your superpowers, adapting best practices to your team’s unique needs, and leveraging tangible tools to cultivate a creative culture authentic to you and your organization.

Who is this course for

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Early career design leaders who want to level up their leadership confidence and craft

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First-time design managers who want to build their foundational design leadership and management skills

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Senior/lead designers who want to grow into team leadership and/or design management roles

What you’ll get out of this course

A clear understanding and articulation of your leadership superpowers

Identify, synthesize, and articulate your leadership voice, style, and approach. You'll walk away with tangible tools that will enable you to revisit and reflect on how these qualities evolve over time.

Best practices and frameworks for building impactful and inclusive team relationships

Learn and practice how to model vulnerability, listen with empathy, and set transparent expectations with your team. You'll walk away with tangible tools to help you build trust with your team and conduct more effective 1:1s.

Models and methods for cultivating a creative and inspiring design culture

Decode and deconstruct the mechanics of designing team critiques and creative rituals. You'll walk away with tangible tools to guide your next design critique and design creative rituals for your team.

Mindsets and strategies to establish influence and impact as a design leader within your organization

Understand and apply strategies that will enable you to effectively manage up and facilitate alignment within your organization. You'll walk away with tangible tools to help you mobilize design across your organization and map spheres of influence.

What people are saying

        Tiffany helped our team navigate a particularly challenging time after layoffs. Through team rituals, helpful frameworks, and empathetic leadership skills, she breathed new life into our team and work streams, encouraging us to discover our strengths, find renewed motivation, and increase our influence across the org.
Idit Knaan

Idit Knaan

Visual Content Strategist
        I had the distinct pleasure of working with and learning from Tiffany for many years at IDEO. Much of my own leadership is inspired by her authenticity, grounding presence, and build-to-think practices. I couldn't recommend a better instructor for anyone leading design teams—or really, any kind of team.
Becky Lee

Becky Lee

Director at IDEO
        I had the good fortune of having Tiffany as a Manager at a time where I felt I had hit a professional plateau. She not only listened to my situation with care, but walked me through exercises that helped open my mind to new avenues of development. Her desire to have "everybody-win" coupled with actionability make her an unmatched Design Leader.
Chloe Ith

Chloe Ith

Content UX & Visual Designer

Meet your instructor

Tiffany Chen

Tiffany Chen

Tiffany is a seasoned design leader with a decade of experience leading multidisciplinary design, research, and content teams. She is passionate about modeling and uplifting design-led leadership that centers empathy, community, and inspiration.


She is a former IDEO design director and has partnered a diverse portfolio of leading organizations to drive individual, team, and organizational transformation through learning, coaching, and mentorship.

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Join an upcoming cohort

Unlock Your Design Leadership Playbook

June 2023 Cohort

$500 USD

Dates

June 19 - 30, 2023

Payment Deadline

June 10, 2023

Course schedule

2 weeks, 4 hours per week
  • Week 1 // Tuesday

    1pm - 3pm EST / 10am - 12pm PST

    Uncover and define your design leadership superpowers


    • Identify, synthesize, and articulate your leadership superpowers.
    • You'll walk away with tangible tools that will enable you to revisit and reflect on how these qualities evolve over time.
  • Week 1 // Thursday

    1pm - 3pm EST / 10am - 12pm PST

    Build impactful and inclusive relationships with your design team

    • Learn and practice how to model vulnerability, listen with empathy, and set transparent expectations with your team.
    • You'll walk away with tangible tools to help you conduct more effective 1:1s
  • Week 2 // Tuesday

    1pm - 3pm EST / 10am - 12pm PST

    Build a culture of creative excellence & inspiration

    • Decode and deconstruct the mechanics of designing team critiques and creative rituals.
    • You'll walk away with tangible tools to guide your next design critique and design creative rituals for your team.
  • Week 2 // Thursday

    1pm - 3pm EST / 10am - 12pm PST

    Establish influence and impact within your organization

    • Understand and apply strategies that will enable you to effectively manage up and facilitate alignment within your organization.
    • You'll walk away with tangible tools to help you mobilize design across your organization.
  • 1:1 Coaching Session (for early signup)

    30 min

    The first 5 people to sign up will receive a complimentary 30 min coaching session.

Learning is better with cohorts

Learning is better with cohorts

Active hands-on learning

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Interactive and project-based

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Learn with a cohort of peers

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

Frequently Asked Questions

What happens if I can’t make a live session?
I work full-time, what is the expected time commitment?
Can I get reimbursed by my organization?
What’s the refund policy?
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Join an upcoming cohort

Unlock Your Design Leadership Playbook

June 2023 Cohort

$500 USD

Dates

June 19 - 30, 2023

Payment Deadline

June 10, 2023

$500 USD

New
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2 Weeks