Design Dept.
Leadership development for designers, by designers. We help transform the way creative leaders work through workshops, individual coaching, and customized learning and development programs.
2024 Designing with AI for Managers
Designing with AI is a community-based learning experience in which creative leaders learn to integrate generative AI into their team's creative practice. Members are equipped with everything needed to navigate this fundamental shift: exclusive curriculum, curated news, live events, and resources curated specifically for designers.
Communication by Design
In design, there are many forms of communication around our work (and lots of it). Clarify the different types of feedback in your daily work to improve communication and collaboration. Whether it’s providing challenging feedback or praise, develop and practice the tools to deliver effective feedback to your team, peers, and managers. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN A ...Demystifying Vision
Understand how vision influences strategy and sparks change A vision emphasizes the tension between the present and what is possible. Whether your goal is a new strategy, new funding, or new hires, establishing a North Star shows people why change is needed and allows them to envision a better state. But imagining that better state is only the first ...Design Leadership for Individual Contributors
Follow your own path to great design leadership More and more makers seek to influence business outcomes without managing people. While company career ladders are beginning to support this path, the tools for non-manager leadership are rarely taught. Usually, individual contributors learn to wield influence through personal trial and error. This ...Design Leadership Fundamentals I
Where makers become managers As a designer, you’ve cultivated a set of skills to craft quality products and brands for others. Now you’re transitioning from maker to manager and navigating expectations about impact while learning a completely new set of skills — and you’re expected to fly when you’re just figuring out how to walk. (No pressure!) This ...Design Leadership Fundamentals II
Scale your impact and influence Expand your leadership awareness and learn new methods for scaling your impact and influence. This design leadership training builds on the work you did in Design Leadership Fundamentals I to prepare you for your next transition — leading leaders. In this management workshop, we’ll tackle the “leadership style” myth ...Design Leadership Skill Wheel
The Design Leadership Skill Wheel focuses on the four primary areas of responsibility in creative leadership—self, vision, team and execution—and the critical skills design leaders must exhibit to successfully deliver within each area. Whether you’re a manager already, or considering making the transition, the Design Leadership Skills Wheel will help ...Designing Alliances
Collaborate effectively Being an excellent creative isn’t enough to guarantee impact. Shifting your mindset from reactive problem-solving to proactive relationship-building is critical to success. However, it starts with knowing yourself and clarifying your needs in a relationship. Learn to collaboratively build effective alliances up, down, and across ...Designing Businesses
Create business value through design As creatives, we believe in the value of design. But to amplify its visibility and impact, we need to integrate our creative practices with the objectives of the business. This design leadership training helps creatives at all levels develop basic business acumen and perspectives that apply directly to their day-to-day ...Designing for Change: AI
AI brings a set of new challenges for leaders. The speed of information is overwhelming and it’s increasingly clear AI is going to have an impact on what we build and how we build. From new roles to new delivery expectations, guiding your team through the evolution includes preparing for change. Changes of any scale can throw teams off rhythm and put ...
