You're now in charge. What's the plan?
Four key elements to develop a comprehensive, winning plan to lead a design team.
Ryan Rumsey
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Change your inner narrative with neuroscience and post-its
Use neuroscience (and post-its) to hack your brain from negative thought loops
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Design is biased. And, your execs know it.
It's critical to find data, leverage it, and examine your own bias. Doing so means you'll be a better advocate for the value of design because I could anticipate how executives might react when I presented data like this.
Design Team Strategy
Our flagship course. This 9-module, 139-lesson design leadership course is made for Design Directors and Executives. Determine the vision, priorities, measurable outcomes, and tactics to make it clear Design shapes Business.
Prioritize Design Quality at Scale
Perfect for Senior Design Leaders and DesignOps teams make and prioritize decisions that impact not just one product or service, but raise the quality bar for your products, people, and practice.
Make Design Unignorable with Data
Transform metric anxiety into strategic power. Learn proven techniques to turn your work into undeniable evidence of impact. Move beyond explaining ROI to shaping company strategy, with insights executives can't ignore.
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Write–Speak–Communicate: A masterclass in Influence
A design leadership course to make better arguments and get PMs, Engineers, and business executives to listen.
Overcoming self-doubt as a Design Leader
The most effective design leaders I know leverage nuance to overcome self-doubt in five steps.
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Selling a Design System before asking for buy-in
An “adoption first” strategy for an internal Design System at EA
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Stand Out Design Leadership Portfolios
A design leadership course to help you stand out in the job market, and create a compelling story that hiring managers and teams want to hear.
Find Your Executive Champions
A design leadership course to prioritize the work that has the biggest potential for impact with the stakeholders who will be your advocate when you're not in the room.
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Business and Product Strategy Essentials
A design leadership course to learn the fundamentals of strategy and rethink the role of the design executive. Learn a better idea of what strategy is and how to do it.