Maven

Become a Top 1% Growth Designer

Walmart

Siva Sabaretnam

VP of Design @Atlassian (previously at Meta, SAP, Walmart)

Learn more about Growth Design skills, mindsets, and how to approach day-to-day work and collaboration.

The most important competencies for growth designers

How to identify opportunities to practice growth design skills in your job today - even if that's not your area of focus

How you can build or strengthen your skills immediately

Having hired hundreds of designers in my career, I'll share more about what sets a Growth designer apart

What I've noticed about the best growth designers I’ve hired

You'll walk away with more confidence about what you want next and a roadmap for getting there.

Work/life expert and bestselling author

Simone Stolzoff

IDEO Design Lead and bestselling Author of The Good Enough Job

Cohort 10

Cohort 11

Design Thinking is a creative approach to finding clarity amidst ambiguity. In this course, you'll be guided through how to apply Design Thinking to your own career exploration.The course itself is broken down into four sessions: Ground, Diverge, Converge, and Plan which will help you articulate your values, explore the career possibilities available to you, design experiments to figure out what you want, and plan your short, medium, and long-term next steps.Instead of spinning your wheels about what's next for your career, you'll follow a step-by-step process to determine what you value and plan your next move.

Clarify what you want with the help of Design Thinking

A step-by-step framework for intentional career design

Tips for navigating job searches and career transitions

Research-backed tools becoming more fulfilled and resilient 

Curious explorers who are ready for a change in their life but aren't clear on exactly what they're looking for

Overworked professionals who move a mile-a-minute but don't have the space to take a step back and reflect

Passionate generalists who feel pulled in multiple directions but aren't sure which path they want to choose

Shape the future of business. Develop the vision, strategy, and influence to make design a critical driver of transformation.


Chief Design Officer | Advisor | Author

Samsung

Amazon

Bank of America

Expedia Group

PayPal

Rachel Kobetz

Chief Design Officer @ PayPal


DLSE07 – Q1 2026

DLSE08 – Q2 2026

A two-week cohort program for Senior Directors, VPs, SVPs, and CDOs ready to lead at the strategic level — not catch up to it. Build the position, influence, and operating model that AI and organizational pressure now demand from design leaders at the top.1. Lock in your strategic positionAlign design to business priorities so your role as a strategic driver (not a service function) is unambiguous.2. Make the business case in C-suite languageConnect design decisions to measurable outcomes. Demonstrate return on design in the terms that drive budget, headcount, and investment.3. Lead organizational change, not just design workBuild the cross-functional influence and stakeholder relationships that let you drive transformation — not just respond to it.4. Build an operating model that scalesStructure your team, systems, and rhythms so design delivers at scale — without the whole thing depending on you.5. Lead into what’s nextLead in territory that didn’t exist before, where roles are blurring, design is moving upstream, and human and AI systems are working side by side.Includes 2 Office Hours with Rachel for personalized guidance on your leadership challenges.

The leadership bar has moved. DLS: Executive is built for what it requires now.

Lead the next evolution of design

Turn design decisions into business results

Drive transformation across the organization

Build an operating model for what’s next

Lead your career with the same intention

Senior Design Leaders: Senior Directors and VPs ready to lead beyond the work and position design as a strategic business driver.

Senior Design Executives: VPs and SVPs leading large teams through AI, shifting org structures, and rising C-suite expectations.

Design C-Suite: SVPs and CDOs using design to lead the business through what’s next — not just respond to it.

You will experience a professional shift, gaining the confidence, mindset, and tools to lead client interactions and create business impact.

Strategy & Transfomation Consultant

Ero Papadopoulou

Business & Culture Transformation | Growth & Turnaround | Marketing Insights

Cohort 1

Clients expect more than solutions, they expect partnership, clarity, and a service experience that feels both human and high‑performing. This course is designed to meet that challenge head‑on. It equips you with the practical skills and confidence to elevate your client interactions with empathy, precision, and strategic intent. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to:<ul><li>Deliver client service that feels genuinely supportive </li><li>Use storytelling to influence, inspire, and simplify complexity</li><li>Drive client growth through structured, strategic engagement</li><li>Build long term trust through transparency, credibility, and consistent follow through</li></ul>You won’t just learn what great client service looks like, you’ll practice how to do it. Through interactive exercises, real world scenarios, peer discussions, and guided reflection, you’ll apply each concept directly to your own client situations. The course is designed to help you shift behaviors, strengthen communication, and adopt habits that create immediate impact in your day‑to‑day work without increasing hours or workload.By the end, you’ll walk away with a toolkit you can use instantly.

Master the Skills That Build Client Trust and Drive Results

Shift from reactive servicing to strategic partnership

Evolve from task focused to growth focused

Build a trust first mindset

Turn difficult client moments into catalysts for connection

Adopt a repeatable excellence system

Professionals who work directly with business clients and want to elevate the way they show up

Account managers, Customer Success professionals, Consultants, Project managers in service companies

Individuals who feel stuck in reactive work, who want to become more confident and strengthen their presence

Move beyond execution and stand out for how you think, communicate, and shape decisions

Design Leader, ex-Slack, Pinterest

Goodnotes

Pinterest

Slack

The New York Times

Squarespace

Cheryl Chepusova

Staff-level designer with 15+ years leading product teams across 3 continents

AI is accelerating how quickly teams can produce work but that also means output alone is less differentiating.For designers, this isn’t a new problem, but it is a more urgent one. Designers have always needed to communicate their value, but as the role evolves and AI takes on more of the execution, what helps you stand out is how clearly you communicate your taste, your decisions, and your impact.This course is for product designers who are thoughtful, reliable, and trusted, but often stay heads-down or prioritize execution over making their impact clear. You’ll learn how to make your work visible, communicate with clarity, and grow in a way that’s aligned with you, not just what’s asked of you. You’ll also build awareness of the patterns that keep you in execution mode, so you can show up with more intention, confidence, and direction in your day-to-day work.This course includes: 👉 4 live sessions with feedback, coaching, and community 👉 (Optional) 30-minute live coaching with Cheryl after the course

Grow from doing the work to owning your impact

Clearer Communication

Strategic Presence

Visibility & Influence

Career Clarity & Sustainable Growth

Product designers doing strong work, but stuck in execution and unsure how to make their impact visible

Creatives in tech on global or distributed teams who struggle to clearly communicate their thinking across async, cross-functional work

Thoughtful or introverted designers who want to stand out for their impact without self-promotion or overextending themselves

The Growth Renaissance

Agentic AI

Coding with AI

AI Workflows

Claude Code

OpenClaw

Vibe Coding

AI Evals

AI Transformation

RAG & Search

AI for PMs

AI for Engineers

AI for Designers

AI for Marketers

AI for Founders

Product Sense

Product Discovery

User Research

Prototyping

Growth

Analytics

Tech Foundations

Strategy

Influence

Leadership

Career Growth

Machine Learning

LLM Ops

Context Eng

Security

System Design

Figma

Design Systems

Visual Design

Design Strategy

Automation

Content Marketing

Demand Gen

Go-to-Market

Product Marketing

Positioning

Social Media

Brand

B2B Marketing

SEO & AEO

AI for Leaders

AI Governance

Communication

Management

People Operations

Exec Presence

Storytelling

Goal-setting

Personal Brand

Fundraising

Everyone

Operators

Data Scientists

Business Analysts

User Researchers

Customer Success

Project Managers

HR Professionals

Sales People

Lawyers

Finance

Investors

Real Estate

Educators

Creators

Introduction to Becoming a Top Growth Designer

Defining Growth Design and the Top 1% Archetype

Hard Skill 1: The Ability to Ramp Up Quickly

Hard Skill 2: Unlocking User Motivation

Hard Skill 3: Rigorous Product Thinking

Hard Skill 4: Mastering Experimentation

Hard Skill 5: Driving High-Quality Experiences

Summary of Essential Hard Skills

Key Soft Skills of Top Designers

The Mindset of Excellence: High Agency and Founder Mode

Hiring Signals: What to Look for in Top Talent

Career Advice and Final Thoughts

Q&A: Data vs. Intuition, User Research, and Experimentation

Conclusion and Resources

Product managers who drive strategy, development, and launch of products.

Designers who craft user experiences, interfaces, and visual design.

User researchers conducting interviews, usability studies, and customer research to inform product decisions.

Getting promoted, navigating job transitions, and advancing to the next level in your career.

User experience design — information architecture, interaction design, usability, and end-to-end experience flows.

Driving user acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization through product-led growth strategies.

Become a Top 1% Growth Designer

What you'll learn

Why this topic matters

You'll learn from

Siva Sabaretnam