Leadership + Design

Leadership+Design began with a simple goal: To create transformative professional development experiences. Since 2009, L+D has designed meaningful learning experiences for leaders, teachers, and learners at all levels - experiences that model teaching and learning for the 21st century. We help participants learn and practice the habits, mindsets, skill sets, and behaviors of intentional leaders, entrepreneurs, designers, innovators, and creatives. Through this work, we build the capacity of schools and organizations to transform themselves in collaborative ways in order to be nimble and adaptable in a time of rapid change. We are a national non-profit with a strong history of working across many sectors (k-12 e and higher education, business, local government and state agencies) to improve operations, strategy, leadership and culture. We employ human-centered design (design thinking) to guide clients towards change efforts aimed at more impactful and sustainable customer and client services. While the organization's history is rooted in "designing experiences for the people who create the future of teaching and learning", we are a deeply human organization that recognizes that teams and leaders across the spectrum can be supported by many of the same tools and processes we have used with success in education. In the rapidly changing social, cultural, and economic world we are experiencing, Leadership + Design is built to strategically support organizations being more nimble, iterative, intentional and successful. We help schools, districts, organizations and businesses with: -Remote Collaboration Training and Strategies -Strategic Planning -Coaching -Tackling messy, ambiguous, difficult issues, problems or initiatives by using a process inspired by human-centered design. -Critical Conversation and Communication -Re-design of the use of time and school schedule -School and Organization culture redesign -Team Dynamics and Retreat Opportunities