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INTRODUCING THE LEADERSHIP CIRCLE

Effective methods to evolve your design leadership skills

Join our highly vetted membership network for designers, managers and directors. 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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Developing Confidence to Influence and Lead

Frank Bach
Principal Product Designer, Headspace
Learn strategies to build visibility and influence in your company
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Communicate with impact

Leslie Yang
Sr. Design Manager, Lyft
Feedback that Works: Strategies for Communicating Constructively and Productively
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Leading User-Centered Innovation for Product Success

Leslie Yang
Sr. Design Manager, Lyft
Learn to align your designs for business opportunity
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September 22, 2023

Develop Your Leadership Presence

Courtney Kaplan
Leadership Coach, Iconic Leadership
Half instruction. Half coaching.
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October 6, 2023

Transition from Designer to Design Manager

Jian Wei
Director of Design, Zendesk
Learn how to manage your time as a manager
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October 18, 2023

Influence the Product Vision and Strategy

Julie Xu
Lead Product Designer, Carta
Translate company strategy into team goals
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October 19, 2023

Improve Decision Making Through Data Storytelling

Kent Eisenhuth
Staff UX Designer, Google
How might we tell stories with data to amplify cognition and improve decision making?
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October 20, 2023

Storytelling to Influence Change

Altay Sendil
Senior Staff Researcher, Pinterest
Develop your storytelling skills
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October 27, 2023

Collaborate and Influence Decisions More Effectively

Aniruddha Kadam
UX Design Manager at Google
Develop your collaboration skills
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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 Manager, Zendesk
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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Director of Design

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Head of Engineering, Design Systems

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Head of Design

Facebook
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Product Illustrator

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Human Interface Designer

Apple
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UX Director, Material Design

Google
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Jen Kozenski-Devins

Head of Google Accessibility UX

Google
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Bethany Fong

Senior Staff Interaction Designer

Google
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Frank Yoo

VP of Design and Research

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Tina Chen

Sr. Product Design Manager

Slack
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Karri Saarinen

Co-founder, CEO

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Jeff Smith

Senior Director of Product Design

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Senior Manager, Design Infrastructure

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Director of Design

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Linzi Berry

Product Design Manager

Lyft
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Julie Zhuo

Co-Founder

Inspirit
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Former, Design Manager

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Kim Lenox

VP Product Design

Zendesk
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Product Designer, Nextdoor

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Michelle Alvarez

Staff Product Designer

Material Design, Google
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Develop Your Personal Brand
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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
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Communicate with impact
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Storytelling to Influence Change
October 20, 2023
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Transition from Designer to Design Manager
October 6, 2023
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Collaborate and Influence Decisions More Effectively
October 27, 2023
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Developing Confidence to Influence and Lead
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Develop Your Leadership Presence
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