Speakers
We’re assembling a line-up of talented leaders from some of the world's most pioneering organisations. 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.
More speakers will be announced over the coming months, so check back for details or sign up to our mailer for the latest updates.
Nishat Akhtar
Chief Creative Officer, Instrument
Katrina Alcorn
Managing Director, Accenture Song
Vuokko Aro
VP of Design, Monzo
Tey Bannerman
Partner & Head of McKinsey Design Europe, McKinsey & Company
Erin Casali
Senior Director of Product Design, Xero
Maria Giudice
Executive leadership coach & co-author of 'Changemakers', Hot Studio
Christina Goldschmidt
VP, Product Design, Warner Music Group
Rebecca Groves
Leading Design curator & programme lead, Clearleft
Ray Ho
Director of Design & Product Management, Back Market
Chris How
Head of Experience Design, Clearleft
Will Miner
VP, Product Design, Slack
Fonz Morris
Lead Product Designer, Netflix
Ryan Scott
Founder, Accelerate Design
Tom Takigayama
Director of Product Design, Justworks
Archana Thiagarajan
Vice President, Experience Design, Adobe
Julia Whitney
Executive & Leadership Coach, Whitney and AssociatesLunch table hosts
Pull up a chair for lunch and share a conversation with your fellow participants. These themed lunch tables are hosted by some special guests. Sign up on the day at our registration desk. Bon appétit!
Navdeep Athwal
Global Head of UX Research - Enterprise Technologies, Citi
Venessa Bennett
Global Director of UX, Dye & Durham Corporation
Steve 'Buzz' Pearce
VP Design, Monday.com
Sedef Gavaz
Digital Director of Student Experience, University of the Arts London
Rachel Ilan Simpson
Head of UX, Tessl
Inayaili León
Director of Design Operations, GitHub
Sabari Majumdar
Senior Design Leader, Booking
Anthony Pond
UX Director, Territory Studio
Rich Rutter
Co-founder and MD, Clearleft
Dr Emmanuelle Savarit
Head of User Research (Global), Just Eat Takeaway.comPast 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
Jane Austin
Chief Experience Officer, Digitas
Mike Davidson
Vice President, InVision
Dantley Davis
Chief Design Officer, Twitter
Janice Fraser
Senior Vice President, Bionic
Aaron Irizarry
Sr. Director of Design, Capital One
Abi Jones
UX Manager, Imaging & Diagnostics, Google Health
Margaret Lee
Leadership Coach, Design Dept.
Noah Levin
Design Director, Figma
Jill Lin
Head of Interaction Design, The LEGO group
Farai Madzima
UX Manager, Shopify
Dan Mall
Founder, SuperFriendly
Peter Merholz
Design organization consultant, Humanism at Scale, LLC
Iram Mirza
UX Lead, YouTube
Lauren Pleydell-Pearce
Chief Creative Officer, PwC
Doug Powell
Vice President of Design, IBM
Ovetta Sampson
Director of User Experience Machine Learning, Google
Eric Snowden
SVP of Design, Head of Adobe Design, Adobe Inc
Alberta Soranzo
Group Head of Customer Experience, Vodafone Business
James Stevens
Director of Group Product Research & Opportunity Development, Sky
Andy Vitale
Executive Vice President, Design, Rocket Companies
Cap Watkins
CXO, Primary
Alla Weinberg
CEO & Culture Designer, Spoke and Wheel
Lisa Welchman
Consultant & Author, Hildegard BV