More often than not, we’re leading through the unknown. The brief is fuzzy, the technology shifts daily, the stakes are high, and the impact is real. We’re told to embrace change, but in reality it isn’t all in, or all out, it’s the messy grey in between. And that’s exactly the space where leader...

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.

This talk was r...

A design leader, Remya Ramesh has been growing and leading multidisciplinary global teams for nearly two decades. With a business, design, and technology background, Remya weaves nuanced interdisciplinary thinking into inclusive digital product experiences.

Remya is passionate about women in tec...

Liga is Head of Design at Printify, Print on demand platform, leading a remote first multidisciplinary team of product designers, researchers, graphic designers and photo & 3D designers. Liga is an experienced UX, service design leader with 12+ years of experience in design and strong believer in...

Stuart Frisby shares lessons learnt from leading a design team through the excitement and optimism of growth, to the fear and uncertainty of crisis.

This talk was filmed at Leading Design Festival 2021. Find out more about the event details here - https://leadingdesign.com/conferences/festival-2...

Design Leadership is tough. Tough because many of us in these rapidly evolving and newly expanded roles have no precedents. The ambiguity of leader vs manager puts us at perennial risk of Imposter Syndrome and sometimes outright failure.

Consider then, the challenges of leading Design in hostile...

There is massive demand for designers who have the skills to lead growing design teams in complex organizations, and a vast shortage of designers with the skills and experience to fill these demanding roles. As our generation of design leaders takes on increasingly substantial challenges, what sk...

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 ...

Designers have a tick, we have an innate need to critique. It comes easy to us, it’s always obvious what should have happened, when, and to what end. This tick exists even when we are humbled by a role, dealing with endless constraints and nothing but wicked complex problems. Our spectator eye is...

Accountability in design leadership: What can I do when things don’t feel right?

Unethical design? What can I do?

There is a critical lens over digital products and services with the fallout from unsafe and unethical experiences in our digital world coming into focus. Many designers and makers ...

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...