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Navigating the Design Leadership Dip ©2024 Andrew Polaine PDW Design Leaders+ 2024 Andy Polaine Photo by Simple on Unsplash Image: S W on Pexels Find me here:

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©2024 Andrew Polaine The worst thing about growing up is realising adults don’t have all the answers.

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©2024 Andrew Polaine 01. The dip

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©2024 Andrew Polaine The Design Leadership Dip v1.0 https://www.polaine.com/2020/04/the-design-leadership-dip/

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©2024 Andrew Polaine Companies aren’t real. They’re just an idea. Companies are really… Photo by Jethro C on Pexels

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©2024 Andrew Polaine Photo by James Wainscoat on Unsplash A group of people briefly coming together

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©2024 Andrew Polaine Projects are 90% conversations. Most of the difficulties are people problems, not design problems. Photo by Samuel Scrimshaw on Unsplash

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©2024 Andrew Polaine The meta-work is the work Photo by Pixabay on Pexels

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©2024 Andrew Polaine Leadership is slow-motion facilitation

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©2024 Andrew Polaine reading the room invited included excluded power structures tools methods spaces food cadence engaged disengaged divergence convergence closure structure crazy together apart mystery reveal purpose clarity pathways questions direction energy errors corrections improvisation

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©2024 Andrew Polaine Ask stupid questions. (Everyone will thank you for it.)

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©2024 Andrew Polaine “So what, who cares?”

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©2024 Andrew Polaine Fear & Anxiety

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©2024 Andrew Polaine Fear & Anxiety

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©2024 Andrew Polaine Fear & Anxiety

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©2024 Andrew Polaine Fear & Anxiety

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©2024 Andrew Polaine 02. Coaching reflections

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©2024 Andrew Polaine It’s not just you.

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©2024 Andrew Polaine The Dip v2.0 – more like a rollercoaster Con fi dence in skills Time Young Gun Senior IC Beginner Leader/ Manager Competent Leader Con fi dent Leader

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©2024 Andrew Polaine “Enabler” is a better mental model than “leader” Photo by Neil Thomas on Unsplash

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©2024 Andrew Polaine Servant leadership is not martyrdom. Photo by Luis Villasmil on Unsplash Fill your cup first.

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©2024 Andrew Polaine Defend your time & boundaries

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©2024 Andrew Polaine Make every meeting a workshop

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©2024 Andrew Polaine Preach design less Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash

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©2024 Andrew Polaine Meta-communication Photo by Antoni Shkraba on Pexels

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©2024 Andrew Polaine Find the shape of you ©2022 Andrew Polaine

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©2024 Andrew Polaine Photo: CC BY-SA 2.0 - Pavilhão Atlântico Find what gives you confidence on the “stage”

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©2024 Andrew Polaine Do your inner work

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©2024 Andrew Polaine Improvise Everybody else is making it up, too ©2022 Andrew Polaine Photo by Sam Browne on Unsplash

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Thank You! Q&A ©2024 Andrew Polaine Find me here: