Sketches to Strategy

Sketches to Strategy
Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Being a Leader

Becoming a design leader is a challenge in and of itself. Moving up in seniority often means moving further away from the day to day craft of design – something which can be difficult to handle. This talk speaks to that and other challenges and how, as design leaders, we can rethink our notions of leadership, success, and even design to be more effective.

Presented at Design Leadership Summit, Toronto, September 2018

Transcript

1. Sketches to Strategy Chris Govias · @cgovias
2. Sketches to Strategy Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Being a Leader Chris Govias · @cgovias
3. Chris Govias · @cgovias Hi Design leaders
4. 9 years
5. 9 years out of 20
8. Small Medium Large
9. Startups Fortune 500 Government
14. The notions of leadership and success
15. This is you.
17. DISTANCE FROM CRAFT LEADERSHIP LEVEL
18. DISTANCE FROM CRAFT LEADERSHIP LEVEL
19. DISTANCE FROM CRAFT LEADERSHIP LEVEL
20. DISTANCE FROM CRAFT LEADERSHIP LEVEL
21. Head of Design
22. Head of Design Team Lead Team Lead Designer Designer Designer Designer Designer Designer
23. Head of Design Team Lead Team Lead Designer Designer Designer Designer Designer Designer
24. Focus on the people.
25. Prepare your designers for their next job.
26. Letting go.
27. Maintain the quality of work, but not the way you think.
29. Head of Design
30. Chief Design Officer Director of Design Design Director Director of UX Sr. Manager of Experience Design Chief of Design VP of Design
31. Chief of Design
32. Head of Design Team Lead Team Lead Designer Designer Designer Designer Designer Designer
33. Chief of Design Head of Design Team Lead Team Lead Designer Designer Designer Designer Designer Designer
34. Chief of Design Head of Design Team Lead Team Lead Designer Designer Designer Designer Designer Designer
35. Chief of Design ORGANISATION
36. Chief of Design ORGANISATION
37. GOVERNMENT Chief of Design
38. Chief of Design
39. The team’s success is your success.
40. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not
 care who gets the credit. — Harry S. Truman
41. Chris Govias · @cgovias Thank you.