Business Essentials for Designers
Build your foundational understanding of business to drive strategy and impact
Gain the language, mindsets, and tools to advocate for the business value of your design work.
Learn how business strategy is defined, crafted and connected to your day-to-day projects and tasks.
Take your goal-setting to the next level with a technique that can align companies at every stage.
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Leverage insights around what drives human behavior to have a greater impact on your business.
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Use the power of design to grow your business and drive results for your company.
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Communication & Collaboration
Broaden your influence, create clarity and achieve results
Communicate more effectively to persuade stakeholders at all levels and inspire action.
Navigate work relationships more skillfully and apply proven principles to get what you want.
Daily collaborative best practices that will enable your team to work better together.
Learn to give & receive better feedback to ignite a continuous cycle of improvement & growth.
Tools and techniques to facilitate conversations, create clarity and achieve shared results.
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Testimonials and Feedback
The word on the street
“I love, love, love the conversational format! I already sit in meetings and watch videos of people talking all day so I get tired of watching people lecture. This conversational format was different, unique, refreshing, and engaging!
Staff Product Designer,
Shopify
“The concepts in Business Value of Design are so clear and powerful that I was using them in my workplace just hours after learning them!
Product Designer,
"This workshop made it incredibly easy to digest subjects that had sounded intimidating before — and now I'm excited to be able to apply these concepts to my day-to-day work. And the format and length of the classes made it a breeze to squeeze into a busy work week.
Communication Designer,
Dropbox
“Exceeded my expectations! My goal was to learn how to better socialize the business impact of design to a broader audience and I leave feeling empowered to demonstrate the impact my team's work has on the success of our company.
Creative Director,
Zendesk
These lessons are quick hits of design goodness. The information is engaging, concise and enlightening. It’s just enough information to learn something and apply it without being overwhelmed
Senior Product Designer, Superhuman
“I highly recommend this course for anyone wanting to better understand how design relates to and impacts the greater business. I loved the course format. It was unlike any other course I've taken before, and felt totally manageable, even during a busy week!
Product Designer,
Slack
“Deep down I knew this information, but the Business Value of Design workshop effectively connected all the dots by framing the topic from a design perspective and providing practical frameworks.
Senior Product Designer,
Netflix
“This workshop is a great way to add another few tools to your design tool kit. As designers, we’re able to have more impact when we’re able to articulate how our work will directly ladder up to business needs. I feel better equipped to speak to that aspect of my work.
Senior Product Designer,
Shopify
“Super useful workshop, giving me frameworks I can put into practice right away with my team! The format was particularly refreshing, interactive and super engaging. Highly recommend!
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