Design Leadership Mastery
Your design leads are talented. But they're getting overruled, brought in too late, and struggling to influence decisions that should be theirs to shape. This workshop fixes that.
Format: 2 days · in-person or remote. Audience: Heads of design, product leaders, design managers.
Duration: 2 days. Group size: Up to 20 participants. Delivery: In-person or remote. Languages: English.
What you will learn
- A shared decision-making framework your team will actually use
- Stakeholder rituals that cut design-to-dev friction
- A 90-day plan for raising design influence in your org
- A shared decision-making framework your entire team will reference long after the workshop.
- Stakeholder alignment rituals that cut design-to-dev friction by creating shared context early.
- A repeatable process for translating user insight into business cases the C-suite responds to.
- Confidence facilitating difficult conversations — about scope, quality, and prioritisation — without losing relationships.
- A 90-day influence plan tailored to your organisation's current maturity level.
- A peer cohort of leaders facing the same challenges, building on each other's thinking.
Why this matters now
- When design is brought in after the direction is already half-decided, the usual mess follows: late feedback, repeated rework, design-to-dev friction, and a team that proves its value through more screens rather than better decisions.
- Most training tries to make designers better at design. This workshop helps them become better at operating inside an organisation — influencing roadmap decisions, aligning stakeholders early, and building the rituals that reduce rework before it happens.
- If your design or product leads are producing good work that isn't landing at the right level, this is the session that changes how they operate.
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Your design leads are talented. But they're getting overruled, brought in too late, and struggling to influence decisions that should be theirs to shape..