If you’re “reconsidering” what you want out of your current or next adventure, Abbey will help you reflect on what matters most to you right now in this season of your life and how to either identify if your current role can morph into that right fit or how to find the path to what you should see...

Executive Function - Reflections on management vs executive leadership, and lessons from a very odd two years.

This talk was filmed at Leading Design New York 2022. Find out more about the event details here - https://leadingdesign.com/conferences/new-york-2022

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In 2022, all leaders have a responsibility and a role to play in the movement toward equity and justice. In this talk, Dianne candidly shares some of the experiences and lessons that have shaped who she is as a design leader and how she shows up for teams and communities.
This talk is an invitati...

When product teams aren’t working together, siloes between teams lead to fragmented user experiences. In contrast, a design system team is positioned to stitch together siloes and unify experiences across the organization. After occupying this unique role for nearly a decade within multiple organ...

As leaders, the well-being and success of the teams we manage—paired with the quality of work they produce—are paramount areas of our focus. Over the flux, stress, and uncertainty of the past couple years, ensuring our teams have been as connected and fulfilled remotely as they were in-person has...

In the midst of incredible ambiguity and challenges, how we do we bring out the best in ourselves and teams? This talk covers how to move through discomfort and ambiguity from the personal to the professional so that we uphold a standard of excellence when we ourselves don’t feel we’re operating ...

Our careers are inevitably marked by high and lows. Some chapters are filled with motivation and inspiration, while other times are marked by the doldrums. The pandemic made us keenly aware of where we are in that cycle, leading us to reexamine our values and priorities. For some, the introspecti...

In this talk, Ovetta describes how she uses the framework of collective leadership to lead multidisciplinary teams for better design. This leadership framework focuses on empowering and supporting leadership at all levels and from all disciplines throughout the design process to push product inno...

The Peter Principle (not named for me, but for organizational consultant Laurence J. Peter) states that because people are promoted based on prior success, they end up rising to a level of their incompetence, because the skills that got them there aren't those that will carry them forward. This i...

How do you create a design practice that feeds collaboration in a world where people are staring at computers all day long? How does design leadership change when teams are distributed across timezones, and team building is done remotely? And most importantly, how to you create belonging, psychol...

Do you find yourself in firefighter mode, rapidly moving from flare-up to flare-up? Are you continually context-switching between each urgent and evolving priority? Does it feel like you’re drowning in the quicksand of changing customer or leadership needs amidst this global context of uncertaint...

Leading Design brings together experts who lead design teams, oversee design direction and know what it takes to successfully create design culture in organisations. In 2022 we hosted two days of virtual talks and discussions from our studio in Brighton, UK. For day 1 we enjoyed talks from Peter ...

Leading Design brings together experts who lead design teams, oversee design direction and know what it takes to successfully create design culture in organisations. In 2022 we hosted two days of virtual talks and discussions from our studio in Brighton, UK. For day 2 we enjoyed talks from Cap Wa...