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INTRODUCING THE LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

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January 26, 2024
Elevating Team Collaboration and Design Systems Efficiency
Learn advanced Figma techniques to communicate your ideas, influence vision or design decisions.
Joey Banks
Baseline Design
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January 26, 2024

Elevating Team Collaboration and Design Systems Efficiency

Learn advanced Figma techniques to communicate your ideas, influence vision or design decisions.
Joey Banks
Design Founder at Baseline. Formerly at Webflow, Twitter, and Figma
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December 13, 2023
Level up as a Design Manager
Learn how to manage your time as a manager.
Jian Wei
Zendesk
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December 13, 2023

Level up as a Design Manager

Learn how to manage your time as a manager.
Jian Wei
Director of Design, Zendesk
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December 15, 2023
Develop Your Leadership Presence
Half instruction. Half coaching.
Courtney Kaplan
Iconic Leadership
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December 15, 2023

Develop Your Leadership Presence

Half instruction. Half coaching.
Courtney Kaplan
Leadership Coach, Iconic Leadership
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February 23, 2024
Developing Confidence to Influence and Lead
Learn strategies to build visibility and influence in your company.
Frank Bach
Instagram
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February 23, 2024

Developing Confidence to Influence and Lead

Learn strategies to build visibility and influence in your company.
Frank Bach
Staff Product Designer at Instagram, Formerly at Headspace
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January 31, 2024
Collaborate and Influence Decisions More Effectively
Develop your collaboration skills
Aniruddha Kadam
Google
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January 31, 2024

Collaborate and Influence Decisions More Effectively

Develop your collaboration skills
Aniruddha Kadam
UX Design Manager at Google
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January 31, 2024
Storytelling to Influence Change
Develop your storytelling skills
Alan Walker
Pinterest
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January 31, 2024

Storytelling to Influence Change

Develop your storytelling skills
Alan Walker
Design Manager, Pinterest
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February 2, 2024
Building Your Personal Brand
Learn Frank's philosophy for becoming a highly visible and connected design leader.
Frank Bach
Instagram
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February 2, 2024

Building Your Personal Brand

Learn Frank's philosophy for becoming a highly visible and connected design leader.
Frank Bach
Staff Product Designer at Instagram, Formerly at Headspace
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December 20, 2023
Influence the Product Vision and Strategy
Translate company strategy into team goals
Julie Xu
Carta
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December 20, 2023

Influence the Product Vision and Strategy

Translate company strategy into team goals
Julie Xu
Lead Product Designer, Carta
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Improve Decision Making Through Data Storytelling
How might we tell stories with data to amplify cognition and improve decision making?
Kent Eisenhuth
Google
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Improve Decision Making Through Data Storytelling

How might we tell stories with data to amplify cognition and improve decision making?
Kent Eisenhuth
Staff UX Designer, Google
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Communicate with impact
Feedback that Works: Strategies for Communicating Constructively and Productively
Leslie Yang
Lyft
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Communicate with impact

Feedback that Works: Strategies for Communicating Constructively and Productively
Leslie Yang
Sr. Design Manager, Lyft
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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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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.
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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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Leading Effective
Design Critiques

Insights from 200+ product designers and design managers from leading tech companies
to get expert best practices on how to lead better design critiques with your team.

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Overcoming challenges when running critiques

Ways for resolving conflicts and debates in a critique session.

Prioritizing design after a critique session

Ways on how to prioritize in which direction to take action after a critique session.

Distinction for design critiques & design reviews

Setting expectations on the differences between design critiques and design reviews.

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Head of Google Accessibility UX

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Senior Staff Interaction Designer

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VP of Design and Research

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Tina Chen

Sr. Product Design Manager

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Karri Saarinen

Co-founder, CEO

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Senior Director of Product Design

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Diana Mounter

Senior Manager, Design Infrastructure

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Director of Design

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Linzi Berry

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Lyft
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Julie Zhuo

Co-Founder

Inspirit
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Linda Dong

Former, Design Manager

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VP Product Design

Adobe
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Product Designer, Nextdoor

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Staff Product Designer

Material Design, Google
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How Content and Design Teams Can Work Effectively Together
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Methods to Tell Compelling Stories in a Design Critique
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Elevating Team Collaboration and Design Systems Efficiency
January 26, 2024
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Building Your Personal Brand
February 2, 2024
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Leading User-Centered Innovation for Product Success
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Improve Decision Making Through Data Storytelling
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Influence the Product Vision and Strategy
December 20, 2023
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Communicate with impact
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Storytelling to Influence Change
January 31, 2024
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Level up as a Design Manager
December 13, 2023
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Collaborate and Influence Decisions More Effectively
January 31, 2024
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Developing Confidence to Influence and Lead
February 23, 2024
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Develop Your Leadership Presence
December 15, 2023
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