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RETHINK develops professional development programs for experienced Product Designers, UX Researchers or Design Managers. We work with product design leaders of the fastest growing companies to help tomorrow's design leaders unlock opportunities and extraordinary career growth.

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INTRODUCING THE LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Effective methods to evolve your design leadership skills

Access the frameworks, methods, and best practices from design experts to help you advance your career as a leader either on the individual contributor or design management path.

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Organizing and communicating your design system

Reflect on the key components of organizing and communicating your design systems.

This 2-week program provides you with frameworks and principles to structure your design systems to enable consistency and better collaboration.

NEXT EVENTS

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Keynote

Design Your Career with Intention

Thursday, July 30, 2020

VP of Product Design, Zendesk

Programs

Next workshops
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Workshop

Strategic Communication and Alignment for Product Design Teams

Jul 22

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Aug 5

2:00 - 4:00pm PDT

Courtney Kaplan

Leadership Coach

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Workshop

Navigating Your Product Design Career

Jul 30

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Aug 13

1:30 - 4:00pm PDT

Fonz Morris

Lead Product Designer

Netflix

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Workshop

Leadership Development for Design Managers

Aug 20

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Aug 27

1:00 - 3:00PM PDT

Courtney Kaplan

Leadership Coach

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Workshop

Developing Influence and Leadership Skills

Sep 17

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Oct 1

10:30 - 1:00PM PDT

Frank Bach

Lead Product Designer

Headspace

Educational Design Events

Learn frameworks and actionable strategies from design leaders that you can apply right away to solve your professional challenges.

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Mentorship Programs

Connect with a supportive network of mentors and peers, work side-by-side to get 1-1 coaching and answers to your questions.

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Design Workshops

Develop hands-on experience plus learn tons of tactics that can supersize your skillset and professional growth as a designer.

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Professional Development Program for Sr. Product Designers and UX Researchers

Strategic communication to influence change. A program for design managers, program managers, principal, staff senior designers

NEXT MENTORSHIP PROGRAM

Professional Development Program Product Design Teams

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Meet our previous speakers

Kyle Peatt

Director of Design

Shopify

Garrett Miller

Head of Engineering, Design Systems

Slack

Charlie Sutton

Head of Design

Facebook

Salih Abdul Karim

Motion Design Lead

Airbnb

Meg Robichaud

Product Illustrator

Lyft

Ed Chao

Human Interface Designer

Apple

Rich Fulcher

UX Director, Material Design

Google

Jen Kozenski-Devins

Head of Google Accessibility UX

Google

Bethany Fong

Senior Staff Interaction Designer

Google

Frank Yoo

VP of Design and Research

Coinbase

Tina Chen

Sr. Product Design Manager

Slack

Karri Saarinen

Co-founder, CEO

Linear App

Jeff Smith

Senior Product Design Manager

Coinbase

Diana Mounter

Senior Manager, Design Infrastructure

GitHub

Amanda Linden

Director of Design

Facebook

Linzi Berry

Product Design Manager

Lyft

Julie Zhuo

Co-Founder

Inspirit

Linda Dong

Former, Design Manager

Lyft

Kim Lenox

VP Product Design

Zendesk

Neek Zanfack

Product Designer, Nextdoor

Nextdoor

Michelle Alvarez

Staff Product Designer

Material Design, Google

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Thanks to the RETHINK events I've learned a lot of frameworks that I applied right away to deal with my own challenges in my day to day work.

Jian Wei

Design Manager, Zendesk

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Q&A with Mike Dick

July 23, 2021

1:00 - 2:15PM PDT

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Developing Influence and Leadership Skills

September 17, 2021

10:30 - 1:00PM PDT

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Strategic Communication and Alignment for Product Design Teams

July 22, 2021

2:00 - 4:00pm PDT

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Navigating Your Product Design Career

July 30, 2021

1:30 - 4:00pm PDT

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Leadership Development for Design Managers

August 20, 2021

1:00 - 3:00PM PDT

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Strategies and actionable tactics from design leaders

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Techniques for Inclusion of Cross-Disciplinary Teams in the UX Research Process

Sarah Wille

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Tactics on effective communication that drive performance

Shay Ghassemian

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Tactics on how to become more self-aware as a product designer

Neek Zanfack

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