Speakers
We’ve assembled a line-up of talented leaders from some of the world's most pioneering companies. They'll be sharing their insights, their stories and their ideas - as well as some of their pain from past challenges. It's all designed to help you navigate your own leadership journey.
Join us to meet a diverse group of speakers as they discuss how they've embraced the challenges of design leadership in their own unique ways.
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Andrea Barbarin
Senior Manager, Insights + Enablement, Client Insights & Research, IBM
Kara DeFrias
Director of Experience Design, Obama White House
Katie Dill
Head of Design, Stripe
Rebecca Groves
Leading Design curator & programme lead, Clearleft
Scott Hines
Vice President, Global Design, PayPal
Hayley Hughes
Design Director, Nike
Aaron Irizarry
Sr. Director of Design, Capital One
Courtney Kaplan
Coach & founder, Iconic Leadership Coaching
Jeremy Keith
Founder, Clearleft
Audrey Liu
Executive Vice President, Head of Design, Lyft
Farai Madzima
UX Manager, Shopify
Peter Merholz
Design organization consultant, Humanism at Scale, LLC
Andrea Mignolo
Executive & leadership coach, method & matter
Lola Oyelayo Pearson
Director of Product
Chris Pearce
Managing Director, Clearleft
Michael Remyn
VP, UX Design & Research, American Express
Dalit Shalom
Design Lead, Trust and Credibility, The New York Times
Aditi Sharma
Head of Design & Research, AWS, Fintech
Laura Silva
Sr. Inclusive Experience Design Lead, Bank of America
Alastair Simpson
VP Design, Dropbox
Eric Snowden
SVP of Design, Head of Adobe Design, Adobe Inc
Tutti Taygerly
Leadership coach & author, Taygerly Labs
Andy Vitale
Executive Vice President, Design, Rocket Companies
Alla Weinberg
CEO & Culture Designer, Spoke and Wheel
Leslie Yang
Senior Design Manager, LyftPast speakers
Since 2016 Leading Design has been convening the brightest minds in design leadership from some of the world's most pioneering organisations. Meet a few of our past speakers...
Temi Adeniyi
Product Design Manager, Instagram
Kate Aronowitz
Design Partner, Google Ventures
Jane Austin
Chief Design Officer, Flo Health Inc.
Bob Baxley
SVP, Design and Experience, ThoughtSpot
Meredith Black
Co-host, Reconsidering podcast
Stuart Clarke-Frisby
Director of Design, Deliveroo
Catherine Courage
VP of Product Design and Experience, Google Ads
Mike Davidson
Vice President, InVision
Dantley Davis
Chief Design Officer, Twitter
Randy Hunt
Head of Design, Grab
Steve Johnson
Vice President of Product Design and Studio Design, Netflix
Abi Jones
UX Manager, Imaging & Diagnostics, Google Health
Margaret Lee
Leadership Coach, Design Dept.
Noah Levin
Design Director, Figma
Dan Mall
Founder, SuperFriendly
Peter Merholz
Design organization consultant, Humanism at Scale, LLC
Christine Pizzo
Boston Studio Lead, Digital Products, Accenture
Ovetta Sampson
Director of User Experience Machine Learning, Google
Khoi Vinh
Principal Designer, Adobe
Aarron Walter
Director of Product, Resolve to Save Lives
Cap Watkins
CXO, Primary
Alla Weinberg
CEO & Culture Designer, Spoke and Wheel
Julia Whitney
Executive & Leadership Coach, Whitney and Associates
Timothy Yeo
Head of Design, Finder