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Vadim Tslaf is an experienced professional who brings years of experience into the classroom to teach you essential skills.
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Design LeadershipCertificate
BrainStation has given me the confidence I needed to be ahead of the game... [and] given me the opportunity to think outside of the box and voice solutions that are different from the norm.
Jaana Hein
Digital Content Planner at adidas
Learn Design Leadership Live, Led by Experienced Design Leaders
Strong design leadership has played an essential role in shaping the strategies of leading design-led businesses. In this live class, learn how to drive visionary leadership and lead design teams through the execution of your vision.
Learn Design Leadership in Vancouver
Online classroom. Live and expert-led.
Professional Certificate
Earn a BrainStation Design Leadership Certificate.
Skill Level
Ideal for design professionals and graduates of BrainStation's design certificate courses.
This course is provided by BrainStation Inc. headquartered in Ontario, Canada, and is not required to be registered with the Private Training Institutions Act of British Columbia.
Learn live online from experienced industry leaders, for 3 hours a week for 8 weeks.
Learn live from experienced industry leaders
Vadim Tslaf is an experienced professional who brings years of experience into the classroom to teach you essential skills.
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Unit 1
Visionary Leadership
Through real-world case studies, explore the foundations of design leadership and how leaders at design-led organizations have leveraged Human-Centered Design to drive innovation in their industries. Learn the pillars of design leadership and how to become a design leader.
Key Skills:
Design Leadership Pillars
Design & Business
Vision Setting
Human-Centered Design
Brand & Design Frameworks
Learn the Design Leadership Pillars
Discover the pillars of design leadership and learn the role they play in setting and executing on your design vision.
Apply Human-Centered Design
Explore the role Human-Centered Design plays across different types of businesses. Learn to set and execute a design vision through collaboration with stakeholders and long-term holistic thinking.
Unit 2
Design Strategy & Innovation
Explore the strategies that have enabled design leaders to drive innovation and help their businesses thrive within the modern economy. Learn to position design for success within your organization and through cross-functional collaboration. Discover Design Ops and how design leaders can achieve design maturity within their organization.
Key Skills:
Design Strategy
Design Thinking
Design Ops
Design Maturity
Measuring Design Success
Design as an Asset
Explore design's role within a product organization and how to maximize design's impact through effective collaboration with other teams.
Establish Design Ops
Learn to combine operating models and team structures to support the consistent development of high-quality designs within your organization.
Unit 3
Leading Design Talent
Design leaders must learn to inspire and lead the talent they recruit to implement their vision. Learn the mindsets and strategy to lead design teams through the cross-functional execution of your vision in a variety of hands-on workshops and case studies. Learn to collaborate with leadership, stakeholders, and clients to achieve successful long-term working relationships, achieve buy-in and establish design advocacy.
Key Skills:
Mentorship & Team Building
Fostering Innovation
Risk Management
Leadership KPIs
Achieving Buy-In
Establishing Design Advocacy
Lead High-Performance Design Teams
Explore the concepts and practices behind high-performance design teams, and learn how to apply them as a design leader.
Build a Culture of Design
Learn design team structures and how to manage and inspire design teams to perform their best and develop into future design leaders.
Taught by Experienced Industry Experts
BrainStation Instructors are experienced practitioners who work at the world's most innovative companies. They're experts in their field, and enter the classroom with years of experience making sure you're learning the most up-to-date and practical skills companies around the world need.
Rose Matsa
Senior Interaction Designer at Google
Christine Ko
Sr. Interaction Designer at Google
Ricardo Vazquez
Sr. Manager, Product Design at Wealthsimple
Jacopo Marcantonio
Group Design Lead at Wise
Mina Bach
UX/UI Designer at IBM
Joy Sampoonachot
Product Designer at Facebook
Rose Matsa
Senior Interaction Designer at Google
Christine Ko
Sr. Interaction Designer at Google
Ricardo Vazquez
Sr. Manager, Product Design at Wealthsimple
Jacopo Marcantonio
Group Design Lead at Wise
Mina Bach
UX/UI Designer at IBM
Joy Sampoonachot
Product Designer at Facebook
Built With Experts From The World's Most Innovative Companies
BrainStation partners with industry experts when building all of our courses, ensuring every course covers the latest industry-relevant topics and tools businesses need. We continue to work with our network of experts to update our courses so they're always up to date.
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Earn a BrainStation Design Leadership Certificate
Upon completing BrainStation's Design Leadership Course, you’ll receive an industry-recognized professional certificate to share with your network and showcase all that you've learned. BrainStation certificates are formatted for sharing on LinkedIn.
Location
Learn in the Center of Vancouver
Located in the heart of the tech & retail district, BrainStation is at the center of Vancouver’s business scene, surrounded by the best tech companies in Vancouver. In addition to courses, BrainStation Vancouver offers training sessions, industry events, expert panel discussions, and more.
When you take a BrainStation course, you're learning with some of the very best in the industry. You collaborate with product managers, digital strategists, UX designers, and all kinds of other backgrounds.
Our instructor... was clear, detail oriented, and made the learning environment safe and collaborative. We got a lot of real world examples from him, and all the little details he shared made this entire course special, and more than simply reading a textbook.
Overall, I'm a big advocate for Brainstation's courses - they've proved to be extremely valuable in my career.
Jaana Hein
Digital Content Planner at adidas
BrainStation has given me the confidence I needed to be ahead of the game... [and] given me the opportunity to think outside of the box and voice solutions that are different from the norm.
Art Director at New York School of Interior Design
It's always hard to start something new, especially when it involves learning skills that you know will force you to think differently about your day-to-day work. I'm glad I got over that fear and signed up for two classes... both were fantastic!
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