We are thrilled to share the talks from the incredible design leaders who joined us on Wythe Avenue for the first Leading Design New York.
After three successful years in London, we decided to bring Leading Design to New York. A sell-out event which quickly amassed a waiting list of over 800. There is such a wealth of incredible content, inspiration and practical tools included in these talks which we know will be of huge value to you all and the wider design leadership community.
Once again a huge thank you to our amazing speakers:
Aaron Walter, Get off your island
Amélie Lamont, The Language of Design
Audrey Liu, Three Principles for Building Great Teams: Finding Your Way Amidst The Chaos
Cap Watkins, 600 One on Ones
Courtney Kaplan, Design Ops Teams That Matter
Farai Madzima, The only one of your kind in the room: Perils and opportunities.
Hannah Donovan, Earning a Seat at the Table
Jane Austin, The Three Stages of Leadership
Janice Fraser, Women in Leadership: 2019
Julia Whitney, Group Decision Making’s Dirty Little Secret
Khoi Vinh, Leading Design Out of Obscurity
Kim Goodwin, Bringing Back “Human-Centered”
Margaret Lee, Insights from a Reluctant Leader
Meredith Black, Get your sh*t together: How to build a DesignOps team
Nick Marsh, Leading design from top to bottom
Steve Johnson and Rochelle King, The Power of an Ally
Stuart Frisby, First comes scale, then comes…
Todd Zaki Warfel, The Design Career Journey
Whitney Hess, Exercising Empathy to Resolve Conflict at Work
Leading Design New York 2019 happened with the support of our amazing sponsors. Many thanks to Google, InVision, Salesforce, Capital One, Mailchimp, Spotify Design and Def Method.
Clearleft launched Leading Design to help design leaders connect, learn and feel inspired by their peers. When working with leadership teams across the world, it became clear that everyone has the same challenges. We wanted to put together a unique programme of events to help tackle some of the most pressing challenges and create an all-too-rare opportunity to meet like-minded design leaders, swap war stories and build relationships to last the rest of your careers.
Have a look around our site to learn more about who we are, what we do and how we’ve worked collaboratively with other design leaders and businesses.