Design Executive Council

Design Executive Council is the private network you tap when you need peer counsel and strategic clarity, not cheerleading. It gathers senior design leaders, VPs and C-suite creatives to surface practical playbooks for influencing orgs, scaling design and measuring impact. Meetings, dinners and summits are curated to push beyond craft problems and into boardroom conversations about org design, enterprise AI and strategic product decisions.

Membership is about access and accountability. As a member you get short, high-signal events, tight cohort conversations and executive-level workshops where peers share playbooks and critique real challenges. The Council is run with executive experience at the helm, which keeps conversations sharply focused on outcomes like stakeholder buy-in, org design and how to prove design value at scale. If you lead design or sit on the hiring / strategy side, this is a place to test ideas with people who have already been in those rooms.

There is public value too. Design Executive Council publishes insight articles, interviews and podcast episodes that anyone can read or listen to, and it runs occasional open events that surface useful thinking for a wider audience. Those pieces are good for staying current on executive level thinking and for preparing for higher level conversations. Use the public content to learn the language of strategic design, then consider membership when you want a private group to workshop the messy stuff that actually moves an org.

This is a selective, premium network aimed at senior players. If you want tactical how-to, hiring marketplaces, or a broad peer feed, pair the Council with more open forums. If you want a compact leadership lab where you can get direct feedback on strategy and boardroom positioning, Design Executive Council shortens the runway.