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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

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Workshop

Leading as a Design Manager

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Courtney Kaplan

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Strategic Communication and Alignment for Product Design Teams

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Courtney Kaplan

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Developing Confidence to Influence

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Nov 12

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Dec 3

9:30 - 11:30PM PDT

Frank Bach

Headspace

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Workshop

How to use your unique strengths to advocate for your career growth

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Jen Enrique

Slack

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Collaborate and Influence Decisions More Effectively

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Oct 29

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6-weeks

Michael Chanover

Khan Academy

Kelly Griggs

Director of Product Design

Gusto

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Workshop

Level up Your Product Design Career as a Lead Designer

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Dec 10

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Dec 17

10:00 - 12:30PM

Fonz Morris

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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

DESIGN CRITIQUE GUIDE

Leading Effective
Design Critiques

We compiled this guide to help you get expert best practices
on how to lead better more effective design critiques with your team.

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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Develop Storytelling Skills

November 2, 2021

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Collaborate and Influence Decisions More Effectively

October 29, 2021

6-weeks

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Building a Culture of Trust

September 17, 2021

60 minutes

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Developing as a Manager

September 15, 2021

60 minutes

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How to use your unique strengths to advocate for your career growth

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Developing Confidence to Influence

November 12, 2021

9:30 - 11:30PM PDT

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Strategic Communication and Alignment for Product Design Teams

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Level up Your Product Design Career as a Lead Designer

December 10, 2021

10:00 - 12:30PM

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Leading as a Design Manager

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