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Our Courses

Build leadership, strategy and business skills to elevate from creative thinker to decision-maker.

Our Courses

Build leadership, strategy and business skills to elevate from creative thinker to decision-maker.

Four essential pillars for effective Design Leadership

Our leadership courses are designed to close a gap we see every day: while great designers are promoted into leadership roles, traditional design education rarely prepares them to lead people, influence the business, scale design, or navigate what’s next. The curriculum is built around four practical focus areas that address these issues and help you solve them.

Personal Growth helps to build self-awareness and healthy boundaries.

Business Fluency connects design to value and builds credibility with stakeholders.

Operationalizing & Scaling Design turns good intent into lasting impact.

Future Literacy helps you spot signals and act strategically. (Courses tba 2026)

PERSONAL GROWTH

Develop your leadership identity. These courses help you build self-awareness and find your leadership style. You will explore how your values and mindset shape your impact and learn how to grow as a leader while staying true to your design roots.

Leadership Studio 01

This course is for early career or soon-to-be design leaders. You’ll learn to:

  • Identify your leadership superpowers
  • Build inclusive design teams
  • Create cross-functional value in your organization
  • Duration: 7 weeks
  • Format: Live-online cohort course

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Leadership Studio 02

This course is for established design leaders. 

You’ll learn to:

  • Identify energizers, de-energizers and set boundaries
  • Develop your value proposition to guide decisions
  • Apply unique design skills to leadership
  • Duration: 7 weeks
  • Format: Live-online cohort course

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BUSINESS FLUENCY

Add a new lens to your leadership. This course area helps you gain the language and tools to operate effectively at all levels and navigate business realities: This includes collaborating across functions, influencing senior stakeholders, and connecting design to what the business truly values.

Leading Beyond Design

This course is for every designer who wants to accelerate their leadership journey through by combining design and business skills. 

You’ll learn to:

  • Understand fundamental business concepts to solve problems cross-functional
  • Quantify impact and dealing with ambiguity
  • Communicate top-down, executive-ready
  • Duration: 7 weeks
  • Format: Live-online cohort course

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OPERATIONALIZING & SCALING DESIGN

Enhance design’s impact. These courses focus on creating the conditions for design to thrive on a large scale. Learn how to embed structures and processes that promote creative and operational excellence, increasing the influence of design across your organization.

Elevating Your Design
Team

This course is for design leaders who want to scale design’s impact with focus on the team. 

You’ll learn to:

  • Assess team health and performance
  • Plan the team’s organizational structure
  • Support growth and retention through career architectures
  • Duration: 7 weeks
  • Format: Live-online cohort course

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Expanding Organizational Influence

This course is for design leaders who want to scale design’s impact with focus beyond the team. 

You’ll learn to:

  • Map your stakeholder landscape
  • Foster alignment across functions to mobilize others
  • Elevate design from a tactical service to a driver of strategy
  • Duration: 7 weeks
  • Format: Live-online cohort course

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