UX Leadership Accelerator

The top 1% of
UX Designers
think differently.
This is how.

Most experienced designers plateau. This program is for the ones who won't. Twelve weeks, built to change how you think, position, and decide.

Format
1:1, weekly
Duration
12 weeks
Investment
$4,000 USD
Next cohort
Rolling intake
01Who this is for

Built for designers in the middle of their career.

  • UX designers with 5–10+ years of experience
  • Strong in craft, but feeling capped or stalled
  • Curious about leadership, scope, or influence
  • Open to being challenged and pushed
Not for Junior designers, or anyone looking for tool tutorials and templated career advice.
02The situation

The path you were taught no longer maps to today's market.

Roles are less clearly defined. Expectations are higher. AI and organizational pressure have changed how decisions get made, and who gets to make them.

Many experienced designers feel the ground shifting but can't clearly explain why, or what to do about it.

That confusion is structural. The market changed underneath a generation of designers.

03My perspective

When industries reset, execution is no longer enough.

I've spent 20+ years in design leadership at Google in Sunnyvale, Nokia in San Francisco and Helsinki, and across organizations where the stakes were high and the decisions were mine to make.

What I've seen consistently: careers stall when designers stay in execution mode long after the market starts asking for something different.

Direction. Clarity. Decisions made with incomplete information. Those are the skills that move careers. They're rarely taught, and this program exists to make that transition deliberate.

Alexander Christian Global Design Leader
04How the program works

Twelve weeks. Small cohort. No template.

Duration
12 weeks, fixed-term
Sessions
Weekly 60-minute 1:1 calls
Portfolio
Review & narrative work that positions your story for leadership-level conversations
Interview prep
Built around leadership-level thinking and judgment
Online presence
Positioning review across the surfaces that matter
Between sessions
Asynchronous feedback on writing, decks, and decisions in flight

The work is tailored to each participant. There is no preset curriculum.

05By the end

What you should have when we finish.

  • You know exactly how to position yourself for leadership-level roles
  • Your portfolio tells a decision-making story
  • You can walk into ambiguous situations and lead
  • You can articulate trade-offs in the language executives use
  • You have a clear next move, and the confidence to make it
06Expectations

This works through your active participation.

You will be expected to think, reflect, and put work in front of me between sessions. That's where the actual change happens.

It's hands-on, tailored work between the two of us.

I work with a small number of designers at a time to maintain depth and focus.

07Investment

Pricing

$4,000 USD · 12 weeks

Payment plans available on request.

08How to apply

Apply for the next cohort.

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