Maven

Airbnb

RISD

Mozilla

Yuan Wang

Head of Design, Maven. Certified Coach. Design Faculty.

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Cohort 2

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Become a better leader. Achieve more with less stress. Motivate yourself to do what you desire to do.

Leadership Coach (CPC, ELI-MP). Design Leader & Educator.

Energy Leadership Bootcamp

Sr. Product Designer 

Senior Product Designer

Product Designer 

Designer and Researcher

Head of Design, Maven. Ex-Airbnb/Twitter

Pinterest

Salesforce

Mercury Bank

Microsoft

Head of Design at Maven. Certified Coach. Ex: Airbnb/Twitter/Mozilla

What's inside 

Reference guide for transforming 1:1s from advice-giving sessions into conversations that empower independence.

Certified Coach. Head of Design, Maven. Ex-Airbnb/Twitter/Mozilla.

Coaching Toolkit for Leads & Managers

Thrive as a player-coach design leader without burning out.

The design leader's role has changed. Flat orgs. Reduced middle management. Companies are now hiring for player-coach roles everywhere. More design leaders are being asked to ship and manage at the same time — often as one headcount doing two jobs. The result: burnout, misalignment, and talented leaders quietly stepping back to IC work.I've been a hybrid design leader at Airbnb. For the past 4 years, I've been a player-coach leader as the Head of Design at Maven. This workshop teaches the mindset and skillset that I've learned the hard way: when to play, when to coach, and how to do both without burning out.

Senior, Staff, or Principal designers interested in stepping into Head of Design or newly in the role.

Design managers who still ship and want frameworks for balancing playing and coaching without burnout.

Founding designers at early-stage startups scaling from being the solo designer to hiring and growing a design team.

Storytelling frameworks for design interviews

Margo Stern

Staff Content Designer. Author of Good Job. Adjunct Professor at CCA.

Josh Silverman

Founder at PeopleWork Partners. Career Coach. Former Chair of MDes at CCA.

Yuan Wang (Host)

Head of Design, Maven. Certified Professional Coach. Ex: Airbnb/Twitter.

Hiring managers evaluate how you think and decide, not just what you made. Your story is how they see it.

Why your story matters more than your portfolio

Your experience matters, but framing matters more. Learn how to structure what you say so it lands.

Frameworks for telling your story effectively

Each stage asks something different. Learn how to tailor your narrative for screens, reviews, and panels.

How to tailor your story across interview formats

Coaching Skills for Leads & Managers

Head of Design at Maven (ex-Airbnb, Twitter, Mozilla). Certified Coach.

Most leaders default to solving. We'll explore what shifts when you coach instead, and when each approach serves people.

Understand the difference between helping and empowering

Practice acknowledging and validating — two skills that build trust faster than any advice.

Make people feel seen without telling them what to do

The right question doesn't just unblock someone today. It changes how they think next time.

Learn directly from Yuan Wang

Yuan Wang

About Yuan

Workshops

Player-Coach: The Workshop for Hybrid Design Leaders

Lightning Lessons

Storytelling frameworks for design interviews

Coaching Skills for Leads & Managers

Resources

Coaching Toolkit for Leads & Managers