The FORMAT
Learning experiences designed for you
Frameworks
Every workshop contains well-tested frameworks to help you develop new understanding and make translating new skills into your day-to-day leadership or management practice. Each participant will receive a printed workbook with these materials to continue the learning after the workshop.
Peer learning
We know knowledge is gained through interaction with others—which is the foundation of our live, learning experience. Our remote workshop formats are highly interactive, providing multiple opportunities for you to learn from the other leaders’ experience and stories throughout each session.
Active practice
Each workshop contains a series of crafted solo and group activities that help you apply our frameworks and best practices to your day-to-day practice. With guided learning and reflection, you’ll walk away not only with new insight but a plan to help you implement it.
Learn Alongside DESIGN LEADERS FROM
“Like good UI, [Design Leadership Fundamentals I] was what I needed, exactly when I needed it.
Wonderfully structured, terrific, relevant topics, valuable group participation, and two down-to-earth presenters who really know their onions. I felt I was in good hands the entire time.”
ESSENTIAL TRAINING
Leadership milestones
Regardless of which path you’re on—craft or management—our workshops are designed to help you make critical transitions throughout your design leadership career. Each gives you a starter kit of tools and frameworks for your new role.
FROM MAKER to LEADER
Design Leadership for ICs
A series of 4 half-day workshops
This series helps senior individual contributors develop tools for collaborating and influencing cross-functional partners and supporting other creatives in the delivery of great craft.
FROM MAKER to MANAGER
Design Leadership Fundamentals I
A series of 3 half-day workshops
As our most popular workshop series, this design leadership training helps newly minted (or aspiring) managers leverage their design skills and become truly great design managers.
FROM MANAGER TO DIRECTOR
Design Leadership Fundamentals II
A series of 4 half-day workshops
Building on Design Leadership Fundamentals I, this workshop helps experienced leaders exploring new mindsets and different approaches to sustainable, dynamic, creative leadership.
“As the title suggests, [Design Leadership Fundamentals I] is a great foundation class for aspiring and new design managers that will provide you with a starter-kit of tools and frameworks you can use, and also a platform to share points of views and ask questions to people who are in the same boat as you.”
“Powerful, engaging, and succinct workshop that will help you become a better design leader. Hear from peers in the industry and walk away with actionable steps that you’ve created.”
“A firehose of excellent frameworks and thought starts to help you approach management with intentionality.”
SKILL DEVELOPMENT
Expand your skills
Dig deeper into the four core areas of responsibility in creative leadership—Self, Vision, Team, and Delivery—to bring more intentionality to your leadership or management practice.
Vision
Visionary leaders imagine big possibilities—for teams, brands, and products—then rally others around those bright futures through influence and change management.
Team
Effective people managers lead through their team. They establish trust, craft the organization with intention, and they play a key role in developing a healthy culture.
Delivery
Delivery is about helping the team do great work. You navigate the complexities of teams and organizational initiatives with decisiveness and flexibility.
Self
The core of the wheel represents your responsibilities to yourself. If you want to lead authentically and courageously, it’s critical to begin here: within you.
Advance your leadership craft.
