Refresh, re-invigorate, and re-define your design leadership practice.
Re-set Your Creative Compass is a 2-day leadership workshop for women in tech’s design disciplines. There are many leadership programs out there but few focus on the specific needs of UXers, designers, and other professional creative women. Through making, play, and multi-sensory exploration, you’ll uncover your inner leadership foundation. From there, you’ll define a creative vision — for you team, your product, your company — and learn methods to influence others and overcome resistance.
Topics
- Leading with courage and conviction
- Influencing others, gaining buy-in and overcoming resistance
- Vision and strategy development
- Effective communication
- Women-specific leadership topics
What You Will Learn
- How to bring your natural creativity into your leadership practice
- How to articulate your vision powerfully and confidently
- How to influence others through empathy
- How to be more effective in the midst of uncertainty
Who Should Attend?
- Leaders of design, content, product or R&D initiatives
- Designers, UXers, and Content Creators with at least 2 years experience in a project or team lead capacity
- Seniors, managers, project leads, principals and directors
- Creatives who have discovered that awesome design skills don’t help with the organizational challenges you now face
- Design leaders with a need to develop a vision that includes a strategic approach
- Designers/UXers with a desire to mobilize others and build more productive relationships
- Designers/UXers who feel worn out, burned out or otherwise uninspired right now
Need to lead but secretly wonder what leading means?
Then this workshop is perfect for you.
“Sarah really has a way of inspiring the individuals to become better, stronger and more sensitive leaders. Thank you for your enthusiasm and devotion. “
Katrine RauSr. UX Researcher, GE Design
“It’s clear Sarah understands the designer role intimately. We just don’t run into that often with leadership development.”
Catherine CourageSVP Customer Experience, Citrix Online
What you’ll gain
- A strong personal anchor to guide you in your work, no matter what chaos is happening around you
- Confidence in your own capacity to lead with integrity
- An ability to win the respect of your colleagues, team, and stakeholders
- A greater ability to bring out the best in diverse partner disciplines
- Deeper self-awareness
- An expanded leadership toolkit
- Increased resilience in the face of change
- Optimism, hope, and creative renewal
Day 1
Calibrating Your Creative Compass
On Day 1, you’ll come back to what matters most by uncovering:
- Your purpose as a designer and creative professional
- Your beliefs and core values as a leader
- The members of your Inner Team
- Your biggest design (leadership) problem
Day 2
Crafting Your North Star
On Day 2, you’ll uncover the way forward by outlining:
- What success for you, your company, team and product look like in detail
- Sources of resistance to your vision within the organization
- An action plan to overcome resistance