4.7
(34 ratings)
2 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Learn how to champion the change required to build a thriving design culture and drive business impact.
Leadership experience
Last chance to apply
3
days
1
hour
43
mins
Course overview
Establish strong foundations, balance vision and execution, increase your influence and impact, and scale a design organization with actionable advice, frameworks, and approaches you can immediately put into practice.
/ Course content /
1: Establish strong foundations
Learn how to demonstrate business fluency, show up as a company leader, and connect the work to clear outcomes.
2: Balance vision and execution
Apply a framework that balances charting an experience vision and tackling strategic design work while improving current experiences and driving the metrics that matter.
3: Understand how to increase your influence and impact
Develop strong relationships with partners, stakeholders, and executives through ongoing communication, building trust, and understanding how to gain buy-in, approval, and support.
4: Learn best practices to build design infrastructure that scales
Establish mechanisms and high-leverage activities that maintain culture, quality, and community as you grow.
Plus: 2 in-depth Office Hours / Q+A sessions with Rachel for personalized guidance.
01
Senior Design Executives leading functional organizations or large teams with a comprehensive product and service portfolio.
02
Design C-Suite entering environments of rapid transformation and growth.
03
Senior Design leaders taking on their first executive role.
Showing up as an enterprise leader and demonstrating business fluency will change the type of conversations, opportunities, and roles you have in the future.
Directly connecting your team's work to its impact on customers and the business will elevate the function, influence priorities, and open investment opportunities.
We will discuss how to build strong relationships, create alliances, team across the company, and use every communication vehicle required to align your comms strategy with business imperatives.
This is an intensive 2-week course for leaders that have minimal openings on their calendars. The sessions will be recorded if you want to re-watch them.
7 interactive live sessions
Lifetime access to course materials
30 in-depth lessons
Direct access to instructor
17 projects to apply learnings
Guided feedback & reflection
Private community of peers
Course certificate upon completion
Maven Satisfaction Guarantee
This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.
Design Leadership at Scale - Executive
Week 1
Jun 3—Jun 9
Events
Mon, Jun 3, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM UTC
Tue, Jun 4, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM UTC
Wed, Jun 5, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM UTC
Thu, Jun 6, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM UTC
Modules
Week 2
Jun 10—Jun 13
Events
Tue, Jun 11, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM UTC
Wed, Jun 12, 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM UTC
Thu, Jun 13, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM UTC
Post-Course
Modules
Bonus
Modules
4.7
(34 ratings)
Chief Design Officer @ PayPal
Rachel Kobetz is a distinguished Chief Design executive with proven expertise driving the vision, strategy, and implementation of customer experiences and organizational transformation for Fortune 100 companies. Her ability to shape product cultures that humanize technology and forge meaningful connections between products and consumers has made her a sought-out operator, indispensable advisor, and industry thought leader. Rachel builds world-class organizations integrating human-centered design to drive product and service innovation and elevates design as a strategic advantage. She brings deep expertise in design strategy, operational leadership, and organizational design, ensuring that businesses can navigate the present and shape the future. Her leadership experience spans a range of industries, including tech, e-commerce, financial services, consumer electronics, and travel.
As Chief Design Officer for PayPal, Rachel is responsible for the design strategy and execution at scale across all end-to-end experiences for consumers, merchants, developers, and employees globally. She’s joined at a pivotal moment in the company’s history to reinvent experiences across all surfaces, foster a culture of creativity and innovation, and help to define the future of commerce and payments.
Prior to PayPal, Rachel was SVP and Global Head of Design for Expedia Group, where she led a cultural transformation to shift the company into an experience-led organization, responsible for the design vision, experience strategy, and operational leadership for all products and services. Before joining Expedia, Rachel held prominent leadership positions as SVP and Head of Experience Design at Bank of America, Head of Studio, New Product UX at Amazon's Human-Centered Design Group, and Senior Director of UX at Samsung's Mobile Innovation Lab.
Rachel serves as Executive Board Member for the Fast Company Executive Board. She also writes the influential newsletter, Defining Experience, providing insights on design leadership, experience-led culture, emerging technology, and the future of work.
DLSE04 - June 2024 - Executive
$2,200 USD
Dates
Application Deadline
Don't miss out! Applications close in 4 days