Two tricks for gaining clarity and engaging stakeholders @apolaine
Two tricks for gaining clarity and engaging stakeholders  @apolaine
Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Every week I spend my days coaching design leaders. In these videos, I reflect upon common themes and questions that came up.

This week, how do you scale yourself as a design leader and what does that even mean?

Plus, two magic questions for achieving clarity with stakeholders, linking design to organisational impact, as well as finding the tangible things that need to change in new initiatives.

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
00:12 How can you scale yourself?
04:01 Two Tricks
04:12 So What, Who Cares?
06:40 Invert the question
08:33 Outro

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Two tricks for gaining clarity and engaging stakeholders

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