Unlock Your Design Leadership Playbook
2 Weeks
·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
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.
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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Idit Knaan
Becky Lee
Chloe Ith
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.
June 2023 Cohort
$500 USD
Dates
June 19 - 30, 2023
Payment Deadline
June 10, 2023
1pm - 3pm EST / 10am - 12pm PST
Uncover and define your design leadership superpowers
1pm - 3pm EST / 10am - 12pm PST
Build impactful and inclusive relationships with your design team
1pm - 3pm EST / 10am - 12pm PST
Build a culture of creative excellence & inspiration
1pm - 3pm EST / 10am - 12pm PST
Establish influence and impact within your organization
30 min
The first 5 people to sign up will receive a complimentary 30 min coaching session.
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
June 2023 Cohort
$500 USD
Dates
June 19 - 30, 2023
Payment Deadline
June 10, 2023