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    Leadership By Design 2020 Q&A with the Coach & the CEO Spend time with the CEO of a Digital Transformation firm who is actively working through a dramatically changing landscape and an executive coach who is helping other...

Leadership By Design 2020 Civic Creatives Overview Civic Creatives produces experiences, tools, and platforms that help cities and organizations engage more intimately with communities to address social injustices within the built environment.

Leadership By Design 2020 Leading With Discomfort Originally I’d planned to discuss the systems that keep HubSpot’s 120 person UX team focused on the right things for our customers. Then the world tilted back in March, and 2020 has served...

Leadership By Design 2020 Hunting for Your Dinner: Finding Opportunities & Adding Value in Wicked Times Designers have always had to be creative and thoughtful about finding their next project, job, or opportunity. Any illusions of control we had disappeared...

Leadership By Design 2020 Betazoid Leadership in a Locked Down Federation “To admit that you’re afraid gives you strength.” — Counselor Troi to Lieutenant Worf (Star Trek: TNG) As a leader, being/feeling/appearing vulnerable can be uncomfortable and make us doubt...

Leadership By Design 2020 Beyond Tactical Onboarding: What Every Designer Needs to Know to be Successful Good design leaders know that designers must think beyond the interface and user needs and work on the business, not just in the business....

Leadership By Design 2015: Prototypes, Process & Play Advancing Strategic Design Without Going Against the Current Enable your organization to embrace and profit from the benefits of a design-led work culture. Culture change is often perceived as long and slow—but...

Leadership By Design 2015: Prototypes, Process & Play Redesign Our Design Thinking Design is beautiful and beautiful things are well-designed. While this is true, it isn’t the whole truth—aesthetics definitely are NOT everything. Sometimes the best design isn’t what you...

Leadership By Design 2015: Prototypes, Process & Play How to be a Designer CEO at a Startup without Being a Jerk As designers we’re told to practice empathy, learning our users’ habits, unspoken needs, and desires. We use that knowledge...

Leadership By Design 2015: Prototypes, Process & Play 5 Tips for Designers from a Terrible Designer I’ve been in the position to lead designers toward best-in-class, top-notch design for some of the most well-known brands in the world. Funny thing...