In his talk Adam looks at the qualities you need to have in order to become an egoless collaborative designer, the importance of craft and domain knowledge and how to scale these ideals across an entire organisation.

This talk was filmed at Leading Design London 2017. Find out more about the eve...

Over the past decade the role of design has taken on greater organisational significance. Today design leaders must focus not only on creating great products and services, but on transforming business through the power of design. But what about our own personal transformation? We pour so much tim...

How do you stop being the bottleneck and how do you lead multi-disciplinary, agile design teams at scale?

The traditional Design Director is a bottleneck. Design and creative teams still follow the old top down model of the 60’s commercial art studio. It's a waterfall process. A modern design pr...

Teams are comprised of humans, and we're highly variable—and sometimes volatile. What works for one person or team may not work for another. There are, however, key principles that generally define great teams, and when viewed as a playbook rather than handbook, these principles become a powerful...

"A very common question I get, whether at a conference, on a panel or even from people I work with at BuzzFeed, is what my day-to-day work is like as a VP of Design. Since no one week or day is exactly the same, I've historically had trouble answering this question. No more!" - Cap Watkins

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New design leaders quickly discover what experienced leaders already know: No matter how brilliant your long-term plans for addressing major organisational challenges, ignoring problems today is never an option.

In this talk, Dan outlines five tactics you can start using your first day back in t...

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Even after 20 years in Silicon Valley, Janice Fraser was baffled by the hundreds of articles and studies that each try to explain why women don't advance into senior leadership at the same rate as men. Drawing upon dozens of these publications, Janice has mapped out the system, in simple boxes an...

Jens is a German managing several of Google’s product insight and design teams from London — not from the mothership in California. In this talk, he reflects on how this outside perspective enabled him to build a strong global culture of user empathy - and to redefine the role of ux research alon...

There’s a popular meme that humans can be divided into two camps: those who embrace change and those who resist it. The first group are the heroes: Enlightened. Set to inherit the future. The second group are petty villains: Narrow-minded, obstructive, and soon to be left behind.

As design and e...

It’s taken years for us to prove that design matters and delivers business results. At long last we live in a time where we’re being included in meetings and called upon to lead important projects. Companies worldwide, big and small, are hiring designers as fast as they can. Design executive posi...

What does it take for a large organisation to shift from ‘Traditional Enterprise' to one that operates good services, organising itself around the needs of its users?

In this talk, Kate shares ways of working across organisational boundaries to deliver better services, changing the way that larg...

As leaders, we sometimes find ourselves in unexpected positions and realize that everything is not OK. When that also involves product transformation, the stakes get very high very quickly and our skills are put to the test. While the temptation might be to take a backseat and let others solve th...

A challenge many designers face as they embrace leadership is learning how to let go of the work. All through their career, their success has been measured by their ability to deliver. Now they have to figure out how to shift their efforts to support the delivery of their teams. This may lead to ...

A story about what you learn when you're tossed, unprepared, into the deep end of design management. Russ shares some big lessons learned making the transition from designer to manager and back again; lessons about what a manager is, why you should (or shouldn't) become one and how leadership com...

GE invests over a billion dollars a year worldwide to develop people at every level of the company, from executives to interns. GE Digital's UX Leadership Program (UXLP) was created to identify and support the development of early career designers through an accelerated two-year, rotational progr...

How does your role make a team successful – professionally, personally, and for your company?

Few design leadership jobs are alike, but all require confident, thoughtful management. Simon dives into which questions to ask before accepting the job, when it’s OK to fail and when it’s not, and how ...

For several years I've been on a quest to master design leadership. In this talk I share what I’ve learned integrating design at startups, scaling design at Spotify, and traveling the globe to meet other design leaders. My hope is that wherever you are in your journey, you’ll find something to he...

In this talk, Stuart shares lessons learnt over seven years at Booking.com where the design team grew from three to 200. From embedding a design culture, to proving the value of design in a data-driven product development organisation.

This talk was filmed at Leading Design London 2017. Find out...