Leadership By Design 2024
Navigating The Design Leadership Dip
“The worst thing about growing up is realising adults don’t have all the answers.”
Moving into a design leadership role can lead to a confidence jarring dip. You let go of your craft skills while learning new leadership skills, often feeling inadequate at both. Many design leaders also discover loneliness at the top, being the sole executive with a design background. And yet is this not the place you aimed to be your whole career? Why, then, does it lead to such a crisis of purpose and uncertainty?
Drawing upon hundreds of hours of coaching design leaders, Andy Polaine, explores how to become more confident and comfortable with your leadership style and how to find resilience over burnout, authenticity over faking it.