Design leaders have evolved from being responsible for executing design concepts to having a crucial role in driving change across organisations. This is welcome progress, but with greater responsibility comes new challenges, especially when it comes to championing change in organisations likely ...

Now, more than ever, design leaders must navigate their teams through uncertainty and turmoil. This talk offers practical strategies for sustaining and achieving success in challenging times. Learn how to transform stressful circumstances into opportunities for you and your team.

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Mastering the three C's - collaboration, communication, and conversation - is key to unlocking Netflix's creative potential. This talk explores strategies for fostering a collaborative culture, maintaining clear communication channels, and encouraging the candid conversations that spark innovativ...

Absent, ungrounded, or unstructured feedback can be a destructive force not just for our work, but also for the lasting negative morale consequences in a team. Also, if we don’t know how really good feedback looks like we’ll always assume things are 'good enough' and never push to improve.

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As the pace of change quickens and new technologies (including AI) are rapidly adopted, design leaders across industries must balance speed-to-market with thoughtful design strategy. When users are trepidatious about new capabilities and the technologies behind them, ensuring their trust must com...

More than ever, the value of Design is being questioned by our businesses. As design leaders, if we can’t draw a straight line from our work to business value, our teams face lower rates of investment and higher rates of layoffs. What if we could translate our work into business language, so noth...

Increasingly, successful leaders are evolving from traditional managers to become catalysts for innovation - facilitating environments where employees can truly thrive and creating the connection between positive leadership behaviours and business outcomes.

Tey delves into the transformative for...

In the current landscape, many design leaders feel like they've hit a wall. The industry buzzes with stories like 'The Great Design Freakout,' reflecting the widespread anxiety over shrinking innovation budgets and their impact on design teams. What does this mean for those at the helm of design?...

Vuokko explores authenticity from both a personal perspective and as a design leader at a technology company: how she’s found a strong voice while building and scaling Monzo, and how that has helped the business — by embracing what makes her different and using it as a strength to build a beloved...

In the dynamic world of design leadership, transitioning between managerial roles and individual contributor positions is not a hard pivot, but rather a pendulum swing that brings value and perspective to your career. Don't fear moving back and forth, and don't get stuck in a single lane.

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Thu 7th Nov 2024, 12:10 - 12:35 - Barbican Centre
There is no one path to design executive. Learn about Christina’s long and winding road to VP and how she has embraced every crisis to hit the tech sector - even as far back as the dot com bust of 2000 - to forge a fascinating and truly unique car...

Leaders are facing changes today that can flatten creativity to a detriment: tools and culture are evolving as economic pressures continue, but the quest for making meaningful, beautiful work stays paramount.

In that quest, we have a duty to nurture what energises us creatively. Staying grounded...

The superpower of designers is to imagine and create potential futures. Designers add most value when they push boundaries not just pixels. However, during times of change, there is increased business pressure for certainty. As a result, ideas become smaller and more predictable. Optimisation sta...

What does it mean to be a human-centred design leader in the midst of human-created climate change? What can we do in our own companies and teams, and as a profession, to help? How might we apply our unique strengths and resources, such as design process, craft, and empathy, to this multi-faceted...