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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.
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Design Your Career with Intention

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Kim Lenox
VP of Product Design, Zendesk
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Workshop
Collaborate and Influence Decisions More Effectively
DATE TO BE CONFIRMED
Mar 4
and
6-weeks
Aniruddha Kadam
UX Design Manager at Google
Leslie Yang
Sr. Design Manager
Lyft
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Workshop
Navigating Difficult Conversations
DATE TO BE CONFIRMED
Mar 3
and
Mar 17
9:00 - 11:00am PDT
Courtney Kaplan
Leadership Coach
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Workshop
Developing Confidence to Influence
DATE TO BE CONFIRMED
Feb 11
and
Feb 25
9:30 - 12:00PM PDT
Frank Bach
Lead Product Designer, Headspace
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Workshop
Leading as a Design Manager
DATE TO BE CONFIRMED
Feb 3
and
Feb 17
9:00 - 11:00 AM PDT
Courtney Kaplan
Leadership Coach
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DESIGN CRITIQUE GUIDE

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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Learn from the best design leaders

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Kyle Peatt

Director of Design

Shopify
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Garrett Miller

Head of Engineering, Design Systems

Slack
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Rich Fulcher

UX Director, Material Design

Google
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Amanda Linden

Director of Design

Facebook
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Frank Yoo

VP of Design and Research

Coinbase
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Jen Kozenski-Devins

Head of Google Accessibility UX

Google
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Yitong Zhang

Staff Product Designer

Coinbase
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Fonz Morris

Lead Product Designer

Netflix
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Ed Chao

Human Interface Designer

Apple
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Salih Abdul Karim

Motion Design Lead

Airbnb
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Karri Saarinen

Co-founder, CEO

Linear App
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Michael Chanover

VP Design

Khan Academy
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Linda Dong

Former, Design Manager

Lyft
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Julie Zhuo

Co-Founder

Inspirit
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Michelle Alvarez

Staff Product Designer

Material Design, Google
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Tina Chen

Sr. Product Design Manager

Slack
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Neek Zanfack

Product Designer, Nextdoor

Nextdoor
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Daniel Stillman

Conversation Designer

The Conversation Factory
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Chetana Deorah

Director of Product Design

Coursera
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Jeff Smith

Senior Product Design Manager

Coinbase
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Charlie Sutton

Head of Design

Facebook
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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
March 4, 2022
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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Developing Confidence to Influence
February 11, 2022
9:30 - 12:00PM PDT
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Navigating Difficult Conversations
March 3, 2022
9:00 - 11:00am PDT
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Leading as a Design Manager
February 3, 2022
9:00 - 11:00 AM PDT
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