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Lee-Sean Huang, AIGA's co-executive director of learning and programs, recently appeared on Association Leadership Radio to discuss our work. In this clip, Lee-Sean shares his thoughts on designers' career paths and transitions into leadership. Full Episode: businessradiox.com/podcast/designing-the-future
CLIP TRANSCRIPT: What we see with designers and career paths, whether they go into starting their own design firms or they climb the ladder in a corporate environment, is that the skills that get you in the door and into your first few design jobs aren't necessarily the skills that carry you on into leadership and more senior positions. And so, there is an identity change and shift as part of that, but we want to be with designers that whole way to equip them for that, or also just help them see that there are different choices, different paths that they can take as they grow. And even if they no longer have designer as part of their job title, they're still using their skills: their creative skills, their visualization skills, in whatever leadership positions they might be in.
Lee-Sean Huang, AIGA's co-executive director of learning and programs, recently appeared on Association Leadership Radio to discuss our work. In this clip, Lee-Sean shares his thoughts on designers' career paths and transitions into leadership. Full Episode: businessradiox.com/podcast/designing-the-future
CLIP TRANSCRIPT: What we see with designers and career paths, whether they go into starting their own design firms or they climb the ladder in a corporate environment, is that the skills that get you in the door and into your first few design jobs aren't necessarily the skills that carry you on into leadership and more senior positions. And so, there is an identity change and shift as part of that, but we want to be with designers that whole way to equip them for that, or also just help them see that there are different choices, different paths that they can take as they grow. And even if they no longer have designer as part of their job title, they're still using their skills: their creative skills, their visualization skills, in whatever leadership positions they might be in.
