Transformational Leadership

Bring about transformations through design leadership by becoming a more self-aware leader.

Stand-Alone course from the Weitzman Executive Program for Design Leadership

$699

6 weeks

8 hours per week to complete all aspects of the course

TBA

Six 2-hour sessions once per week live online.

Experienced designers transitioning into leadership positions, established design leaders who want to be more effective, and emerging design leaders who need coaching and mentoring to get to the next level.

Professionals who do not have design backgrounds but are leading design projects from the client or organizational side.

This is a non-credit course for working professionals taught at the graduate level.

Introduction and Meet and Greet 

Topics:

1. Are Leaders Born or Made?
2. Transformations & Competencies of a Transformational Leader
3. What Brings You to XDL?
4. Disorienting Dilemmas
5. People Disorienting Dilemmas - INCREMENTAL
6. Personal Disorienting Dilemmas - EPOCHAL
7. Defining Your Dilemma 
8. People Don't Care What You Do, They Care Why You Do It

Topics:

1. Power
2. Transformational Leadership & Transactional Leadership
3. Parallel Theories
4. Opposing Wedges
5. Positioning Your Dilemma on the Spectrum
6. Letting Go

Topics: 

1. Design Leadership
2. The Internal Condition & The Blind Spot of Leadership
3. Ontological Understanding of Self
4. The Egoic Self & The Egoic Self
5. Ethics - I
6. Ethics - II
7. Three Enemies: Fear, Judgement, & Cynicism
8. Dissertation Conclusions - I

This week seeks to knit together the three previous weeks in a presentation prepared by each member of the cohort and shared with the cohort.  The more frequently one learns to articulate dilemmas, passions, sources, and goals, the clearer one becomes about the ‘why’.  Learning to do this with small, medium, and large scaled groups is a way to gain confidence and to hold up a mirror.

Assignment details will be presented in class.

Topics:

1. A Few More Terms
2. Dissertation Conclusions II
3. Your Final Project
4. The Rumble
5. Open Space

Topics: 

1. The U - Part I - What Is It?
2. The U - Part II - Down One Side 
3. The U - Part III - Passing Through the Eye of the Needle 
4. The U - Part IV - Up the Other Side 
5. How Designers Can Benefit from the U
6. Open Space
7. The Container
8. Rumbling
9. How Designers Can Benefit by Holding the Space