Design leaders: alpine edition
Join the adventure as 50 UX leaders head to the Tyrolean Alps for 2.5 days of soaking up exclusive content from top-notch international experts.
About this getaway
Further your career as a UX leader in an atmosphere that's as chill as it is inspiring and join design leaders - alpine edition. The meaningful retreat for (emerging) UX leaders in the heart of the Austrian mountains.
To empower you in discovering fresh solutions for your everyday challenges, we've crafted a program featuring:
Applicable & actionable input by experienced UX leaders
Relatable & personal facilitated conversations
Meaningful & hands-on focus sessions
We’ll make sure to make the most of our surroundings, where there’s plenty of opportunity to take part in guided (outdoor) activities, like hiking and yoga. Our wonderful hotel also has great indoor sports facilities as well as a spa area (it even has its own lake!), all while offering stunning mountain views.
Coaches
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Indi
Young
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Molly
Stevens
Topics
Your role as a leader
Juggling leadership transition, business savvy, diverse communication, and strategic UX integration and defining the ways of working for UX crafts.
UX governance
Crafting a supportive environment for design team success through strategic alignment, effective communication, resource clarity, agile adaptation, and improved working conditions.
Authentic leadership
Embrace your authentic leadership style: lead with passion, vulnerability, and your true values, turning weaknesses into strengths, thriving in the spotlight, and empowering your team to flourish.
People management
Navigating people management and organizational challenges, encompassing project allocation, career planning, recruitment, team dynamics, and operational tasks like meeting management.
When & Where?
Kaiserlodge in Tyrol, Austria
This is right after uxcon vienna, which will take place in Vienna, on Sept 19th & 20th, 2024.
All the magic happens at fantastic Hotel Kaiserlodge, nestled in the northern limestone Alps in the Eastern Alps. This place has it all, including a rooftop spa and pool. It's the ultimate spot to let your thoughts wander, get creative, and simply unwind. We can host a maximum of 50 attendees and it would be wonderful if you were one of them.
For who?
After talking to a whole bunch of new and more experienced UX leaders, we realised many of you have been facing the same questions:
How do I handle changing relationships with peers and stakeholders?
How can I proactively shape strategy and UX maturity, while juggling so many ad-hoc tasks and asks?
How can I redefine success, purpose and personal growth, now that my tasks have changed?
Do you work in UX in a leadership role and are you facing these challenges? Then this retreat is for you.
Program
- Transitioning from IC to Leadership: a balance act
- Understanding the business perspective
- Exploring management styles
- Building connections with other leaders within your organization
- Communicating UX to C-level executives
- Inclusive leadership in the context of diverse backgrounds and cultures
- Positioning and selling UX within the organization
- Aligning design with business goals for a stronger impact
- Talking about our design ideas in a way that convinces everyone
- Making it clear what our design team can handle (and what we can't)
- Figuring out how to work with tight schedules and budgets
- Strategies for design teams to get their ideas heard
- Is our organisation agile? Reality-Check and possible solutions
- Finding ways to create better conditions for designers in the team
Feel like going for a walk, getting steamy in the sauna, or taking a dip? You can do all that (and then some, or even nothing at all) - just go with the flow and see where the day takes you!
You're invited to come hang out with us at the hotel, enjoy a tasty meal, followed by some relaxed socializing to get to know each other better.
And hey, if you feel like taking a breather on your own, go for it - no pressure at all!
Not a fan of sleeping in (or loving the rare chance to stay in bed a little longer with the kids away)? Feel free to join our morning program!
- Aligning design with business goals for a stronger impact
- Talking about our design ideas in a way that convinces everyone
- Making it clear what our design team can handle (and what we can't)
- Figuring out how to work with tight schedules and budgets
- Strategies for design teams to get their ideas heard
- Is our organisation agile? Reality-Check and possible solutions
- Finding ways to create better conditions for designers in the team
- Creating influential longer term product visions
- Collaborating with other crafts to multiply your impact
- Developing frameworks and capabilities
- Answering the ROI question
- New tech and UX
- Lead with passion, vulnerability, and your true values
- Define your unique leadership style: Build a vision that aligns with your values and strengths
- Turn "weaknesses" into superpowers: Discover how embracing your vulnerabilities can foster trust and inspire others
- Thrive in the spotlight: Navigate the discomfort of being the center of attention and learn techniques to embody authentic confidence
- Empower your team: Discover ways to build a real and connected environment that helps everyone flourish
- Lead with passion, vulnerability, and your true values
- Define your unique leadership style: Build a vision that aligns with your values and strengths
- Turn "weaknesses" into superpowers: Discover how embracing your vulnerabilities can foster trust and inspire others
- Thrive in the spotlight: Navigate the discomfort of being the center of attention and learn techniques to embody authentic confidence
- Empower your team: Discover ways to build a real and connected environment that helps everyone flourish
Enjoy the hotel's wellness area, surrounded by Tyrolean mountains... have you discovered the swimming pond yet?
Great food and drinks - that's all you need to know.
Join us for a cozy chat with research pioneer and book author Indi Young!
- Effective project allocation and team management
- Career planning & goal-setting
- Recruiting and hiring
- Team management & defining ways of working together
- Dealing with organizational & operational taks: e.g. meeting management
- Effective project allocation and team management
- Career planning & goal-setting
- Recruiting and hiring
- Team management & defining ways of working together
- Dealing with organizational & operational taks: e.g. meeting management
To make up for it, we've got a delicious lunch waiting for you...
Since we're already in beautiful Tyrol, we want to make the most of it!
If the weather's good, we'll go for a short hike to a cabin and enjoy a few drinks there.
Feel free to join us!
Time flies when you're having fun!
We'll have a shuttle bus to the train station. And if you need any help with your journey back home, just ask - we've here to help!
Tickets
Design leaders: alpine edition
What's next
FAQs
Got questions? Swing by our information hub and let us help you find what you need.
The getaway is scheduled for Monday, September 23rd to Wednesday, September 25th, 2024 which is right in the week after uxcon '24. (Sep 19-20, Vienna).
It kicks off on Monday early afternoon and wraps up on Wednesday evening.
The venue is Hotel Kaiserlodge in Tyrol, Austria.
Address: Kaiserlodge, Dorf 11a, 6351 Scheffau am Wilden Kaiser
The short answer is: Almost everything, except your individual journey to Wörgl.
The ticket covers:
- shuttle service from Wörgl main station to the hotel and back
- 2 nights in a double room (for single occupancy) or a 100m2 luxury suite (for double occupancy; with a kitchen, a living room, two separate bed- and bathrooms)
- access to all hotel facilities, including the wellness area
- meals
- 2x breakfast
- 2x dinner
- 3x lunch
- snacks and drinks during coffee breaks
- all working sessions with our coaches
- side activities
Address: Kaiserlodge, Dorf 11a, 6351 Scheffau am Wilden Kaiser
The easiest way to get to hotel Kaiserlodge by public transport is by taking a train to Wörgl Main Station. From there, we provide a shuttle bus that takes you directly to our hotel in about 15 minutes (same for the return trip).
So, for example, if you're coming from Vienna, you can take a direct train from "Wien Hauptbahnhof" to "Wörgl Hauptbahnhof", which takes about 3 hours and 45 minutes.
Also, there are direct trains from Innsbruck and Salzburg to Wörgl.