Effective Design Leadership in a Rapidly Transforming World

Design practitioners are tasked with delivering sustainable solutions amidst highly disruptive conditions. We enter systems with great intentions, anticipating that our influence, agency and designerly ways of knowing, doing and thinking will make a difference. But what are we actually contributing, and how much of our full, embodied intelligence are we bringing to bear? How do we develop ourselves as leaders in order to facilitate the change needed to meet the increasingly complex challenges of a world in transition?

We’ve invited Strategic Designer and founder of Transition Leadership LAB, Susanna Carman, back to explore these questions. In the second event in this series with Susanna, we will discover the essential creative competencies that correlate with effective leadership amidst disruptive conditions, and the reactive tendencies that hold us back from unleashing our generative energy. The session will include experiential learning opportunities to deepen understanding and introduce capacities that are necessary for leading change in a rapidly transforming world.

THIS IS A PARTICIPATORY WORKSHOP! EVENT PREP:
Please arrive 5 minutes before start time to allow us to keep to schedule.
To get the most out of this experiential event, we'll keep our cameras on.

Items to bring and work space preparation:
A box of coloured crayons, pastels or markers
At least 4 sheets of A4 paper
5 small items from the natural environment that are intuitively appealing, or already something valued
5 items from the manufactured environment that are intuitively appealing, or already something valued
You'll need to make sure that your work surface is flat and uncluttered, and that you can move freely and engage in haptic model making without concern.