Strategic UX Leader™ Program
Increase Influence • Create Impact • Develop Your Leadership Strengths
Live, multi-week courses starting September 2024
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It isn’t easy. But it doesn’t have to be so hard.
After over 25 years in this field, I know that working in UX, design, or research has unique challenges that many of our leaders and colleagues just don’t understand. These programs are led by an industry expert (that’s me!) and filled with other UX pros, allow you to gain the support you need to thrive in your work and career.
I know first-hand the many challenges that face UX leaders and individual contributors. My Strategic UX Leader™ programs are tailor-made for today's user experience professionals.
This cohort-based program is designed to empower you to advance your work and your career, strategically and authentically. You'll build essential leadership skills like developing a leadership mindset, honing your vision and values, more effective communication, creating strategic partnerships, and more.
Custom built for your professional needs
This fall I’m offering this program in two tracks: Strategic UX Leadership and Strategic UX Management
Track 1:
Strategic UX Leadership
Designed for all levels and roles.
Program Focus:
Leadership Mindset
Self-leadership
Effective Communication
Create Influence & Impact
Length: 4 weeks, Sept. 20 - Oct 11
Cost: $750
Track 2:
Strategic UX Management
Designed for team leads and managers.
Program Focus:
Everything in Track 1, plus:
Measure for Success
Develop High-performing Teams
Coaching & Mentoring Others
Length: 6 weeks,Sept 20 - Oct 25
Cost: $950
Find your community
Through our weekly live sessions, you'll have the opportunity to connect with a cohort of peers who are facing similar challenges, allowing you to build relationships and a sense of community. You'll also have access to group coaching, giving you the support you need to succeed.
Live Group Coaching Benefits
Get clarity on the “Big Picture”
Identify impact
Maximize your influence
Become a more effective communicator
Build strategic relationships that amplify your work
Access to a large network of driven professionals in your field.
This cohort-based program is designed to empower you to advance your work and your career, strategically and authentically.
Enhance your professional impact
These programs are built on learning the fundamentals you need to succeed. Strategic leadership is focused on giving you an overview of leadership, while the management track allows you to go into each of the skills in more depth. By the end of each program, you'll have the tools and knowledge to create more influence and become a trusted leader.
Strategic Leadership Focus:
Leadership Mindset
Self-leadership
Effective Communication
Create Influence & Impact
Strategic Management Focus:
Measure for Success
Develop High-performing Teams
Coaching & Mentoring Others
“The Strategic UX management program was a great experience for me. As the only experienced designer at my business and having lacked strategic design leadership for most of my career, it was awesome to be in the presence of other UX leads. The course provided practical tips, great frameworks, varied perspectives and the opportunity to talk through a lot of issues that all of us were facing independently. I even got to implement a new design framework at my company as a result of this program.”
- Chimmy Kalu
Staff product designer | Keynote Speaker | 2x LinkedIn Learning Course Author | Educator and Mentor | Previous UX Cake Guest
Program Details
The program is offered in 2 parts.
Everyone starts with the most important strategic learning in Strategic UX Leadership
For those who are managers or team leads, you can sign up for Strategic UX Management, which is 2 weeks longer and includes hands-on learning for team and people managers.
Strategic UX Leadership (SUL): 4 weeks
Strategic UX Management (SUM): 6 weeks
Structure:
Wednesdays 8am PDT / check time in your location
Weekly 90-minute interactive learning sessions (live)
Additional weekly live 60-minute group coaching & mastermind sessions
Date & Times:
Wednesdays are 8am-9:30am PT (See this time in your own timezone), while Friday coaching sessions are 8am - 9am PT.
Below are all dates of the program. *Please note that there are more dates for Strategic UX Management (SUM) Track.
• Leadership Vision, Clarifying Strategic Opportunities
• Leader’s Mindset
• Effective Communication
• Strategic Relationships (End of SUL modules)
• Setting a course for team success (SUM 0nly)
• Coaching & Mentoring skills (SUM only)
• Plus weekly live group coaching calls
Additional Benefits:
Membership in the Strategic UX Leader™ Community for enhanced learning and monthly masterminds.
Access to a network of driven professional peers.
Ongoing events and alumni opportunities.
“My primary goal when I signed up for the program was to build more confidence as a leader in my first UX Management role. This program helped me do that and more! With increased clarity on who I am as a leader (my personal strengths, values, and vision), I’ve been able to create more impact in my role and with my team!”
- Lexa Wakefield
UX Manager at Brooks Running
Get reimbursed from your employer!
Investing in yourself with leadership development is a powerful way to accelerate your career, and brings many benefits to your employer, including:
Inspired Teamwork: Leadership training fosters better team collaboration and cooperation.
Problem Solving: Equipped with strategic thinking, leaders tackle challenges effectively.
Adaptability: Trained leaders thrive amidst change, steering the team through uncertainties.
Results-Driven: Trained leaders boost productivity and contribute to company success.
Want to learn more?
Here’s a half-hour Info Session where I go more in-depth on how this program will advance your leadership skills, your leadership career, and increase your network.
Additional questions? Book a chat. Let’s explore how to enhance your career together.
“Being in a middle management layer can be really stressful, because you're figuring out ‘what do the people on my team need, what does my manager need from me, what do my partners need from me?’ and it can create this kind of reactive environment. This course helped to remind me to be more entrepreneurial… who can I partner with, how can I get different resources from the team working on it and focused on it?” — A., Minnesota
“As a new design leader, I feel a lot more confident… I thought leadership's like a big scary thing. It's just like, No, this is just the stuff I'm already doing. And here's some better ways to go about it. So that's been a really awesome takeaway for me.”— M., Colorado
“I was able to put learnings into practice from the start. It gave me new perspective to find opportunities for myself and my team I hadn’t seen before. It’s more than strategic, it’s a real mindset shift.” — B., London
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