Strategic UX Leader™ Program
Increase Influence • Create Impact • Develop Your Leadership Strengths
Now enrolling for May-June 2025
It isn’t easy. But it doesn’t have to be so hard.
After over 25 years in this field, I know that working in user-experience design & research roles has unique challenges that many of our leaders and colleagues just don’t understand. These programs are led by an industry expert (that’s me!) and filled with other UX pros, allow you to gain the support you need to thrive in your work and career.
I know first-hand the many challenges that face UX leaders and individual contributors. My Strategic UX Leader™ programs are tailor-made for today's user experience professionals.
This cohort-based program is designed to empower you to advance your work and your career, strategically and authentically. You'll build essential leadership skills like developing a leadership mindset, honing your vision and values, more effective communication, creating strategic partnerships, and more.
Custom built for your professional needs
This program has two tracks: Strategic UX Leadership and Strategic UX Management
Track 1:
Strategic UX Leadership
All levels and roles
Program Focus:
Leadership Mindset
Self-leadership
Effective Communication
Create Influence & Impact
Leadership Roadmap
Length: 5 weeks
Cost: $850
Track 2:
Strategic UX Management
Team leaders & people managers
Program Focus:
Everything in Track 1, plus:
Leading Teams:
Measure for Success
Coaching for Development
Length: 7 weeks
Cost: $1,150
Find your community
Through our weekly live sessions, you'll have the opportunity to connect with a cohort of peers who are facing similar challenges, allowing you to build relationships and a sense of community. You'll also have access to group coaching, giving you the support you need to succeed.
Live Group Coaching Benefits
Get clarity on the “Big Picture”
Identify impact
Maximize your influence
Become a more effective communicator
Build strategic relationships that amplify your work
Access to a large network of driven professionals in your field.
This cohort-based program is designed to empower you to advance your work and your career, strategically and authentically.
Enhance your professional impact
These programs are built on learning the fundamentals you need to succeed. Strategic leadership is focused on giving you an overview of leadership, while the management track allows you to go into each of the skills in more depth. By the end of each program, you'll have the tools and knowledge to create more influence and become a trusted leader.
Strategic Leadership Focus:
Leadership Mindset
Self-leadership
Effective Communication
Create Influence & Impact
Strategic Management Focus:
Measure for Success
Develop High-performing Teams
Coaching & Mentoring Others
“This course helped me identify my core principles as a leader. I honed my value proposition and goals. I reframed years of ‘recommendations’ and crystalized what I care about, which helped me land the awesome role at Twilio, back in the SaaS/Productivity world I’m passionate about.
Another key takeaway was observing how Leigh coached — asking questions and allowing participants to find their way. I’ve been modeling this, refining how I coach and mentor.”
- Ryan Gachet
Director of Design & Research, Twilio
Program Details
Spring 2025 Cohort Starts May 14
The program is offered in 2 parts.
Everyone starts with the most important leadership development in Strategic UX Leadership
Strategic UX Management, for people managers or team leads, is 2 weeks longer and includes hands-on learning for team and people managers.
Strategic UX Leadership (SUL): 4 modules
Strategic UX Management (SUM): 6 modules
Bonus roadmaping session (both tracks)
Structure:
Weekly 90-minute interactive learning sessions (live)
Additional weekly live 60-minute group coaching & mastermind sessions
Online community with your cohort for additional learning
Date & Times:
Wednesdays are 8am-9:30am PT (See this time in your own timezone), while Friday coaching sessions are 8am - 9am PT.
Below are the program modules. *Please note that there are more dates for Strategic UX Management (SUM) Track.
• Leadership Vision, Clarifying Strategic Objectives
• Leader’s Mindset
• Effective Communication
• Strategic Relationships
• Success Metrics for UX Teams (SUM 0nly)
• Coaching & Mentoring skills (SUM only)
• Creating Your Leadership Roadmap (both tracks)
• Plus weekly live group coaching calls (both tracks)
Additional Benefits:
Membership in the Strategic Leader Community for enhanced learning
Access to a network of driven professional peers.
Ongoing events and alumni opportunities.
Register now for May 2025
“My primary goal when I signed up for the program was to build more confidence as a leader in my first UX Management role. This program helped me do that and more! With increased clarity on who I am as a leader (my personal strengths, values, and vision), I’ve been able to create more impact in my role and with my team!”
- Lexa Wakefield
UX Manager at Brooks Running
Get reimbursed from your employer!
Investing in yourself with leadership development is a powerful way to accelerate your career, and brings many benefits to your employer, including:
Inspired Teamwork: Leadership training fosters better team collaboration and cooperation.
Problem Solving: Equipped with strategic thinking, leaders tackle challenges effectively.
Adaptability: Trained leaders thrive amidst change, steering the team through uncertainties.
Results-Driven: Trained leaders boost productivity and contribute to company success.
Want to learn more?
Here’s a half-hour Info Session where I go more in-depth on how this program will advance your leadership skills, your leadership career, and increase your network.
Additional questions? Book a chat. Let’s explore how to enhance your career together.
“Being in a middle management layer can be really stressful, because you're figuring out ‘what do the people on my team need, what does my manager need from me, what do my partners need from me?’ and it can create this kind of reactive environment. This course helped to remind me to be more entrepreneurial… who can I partner with, how can I get different resources from the team working on it and focused on it?” — A., Minnesota
“As a new design leader, I feel a lot more confident… I thought leadership's like a big scary thing. It's just like, No, this is just the stuff I'm already doing. And here's some better ways to go about it. So that's been a really awesome takeaway for me.”— M., Colorado
“I was able to put learnings into practice from the start. It gave me new perspective to find opportunities for myself and my team I hadn’t seen before. It’s more than strategic, it’s a real mindset shift.” — B., London
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