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Free Lesson

7 Dimensions of Design Leadership

30 min
Oct 7, 2024 12:00 PM
Virtual (Zoom)

What you'll learn

Build empathy for shifting societal composition and needs

Learn how to track your team's evolution to ensure it mirrors target audience intersectionalities and lived experiences

Evaluate your leadership tact in shaping team evolution

Learn the key differences between gatekeeping (i.e., keep the status quo) and servant leadership (i.e., embrace change)

Lead design team evolution as a holistic transformation

Understand how to rationalize people, processes and tools as you build, scale and deploy your design team's capabilities

Why this topic matters

Have you encountered leaders that are stuck in their ways as they build and scale their teams? For design, our discipline needs to represent "people in love with people" (to quote my friend Mauro Porcini, CDO of PepsiCo). We must recognize our changing world and ensure our teams are always adapting to it. This lightning talk will give you key framings on how to think about leading differently.

You'll learn from

Kevin Bethune

Kevin Bethune

Design & Innovation Leader | Bestselling Author, Reimagining Design + Nonlinear

25+ years of multidisciplinary leaps ...

dreams • design + life
TED
Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Nike
Westinghouse Nuclear
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