Guide

Leading and growing an in-house team

For designers stepping into leadership—how to grow your influence, build and keep a strong team and sustain a creative culture that lasts.

GROWING AS A LEADER

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Design Leadership at Scale

Bob Calvano

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Advancing Your Design Practice

Andy Vitale

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What They See That You Don’t: The unspoken rules of design progression

Deborah Peterson

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Building your Table of Influence

Josh McInerney RGD

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We Must Make Our Own Opportunities

Samina Dagger Bhutta, Sean Davison

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Stop Asking Why: What parenting teaches us about leading designers

Jordan Gosselin

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Out of Office: How stepping away leads to better design and leadership

Victor Yves

SHOWING YOUR TEAM'S VALUE

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Promoting your In-House Team: Demonstrating your value, getting the jobs you want and receiving the recognition you deserve
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Communicating the Value of Creativity: Framing ideas in business terms

Jesse Krinsky

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Empowering Partner Creativity: Our journey to a self-serve ecosystem

Wendy Millard RGD

CULTURE & SUSTAINING THE WORK

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The In-House Culture Hack: How to creatively kick ass and enjoy doing it

Andy Epstein

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Make Design Fun Again: Practices that keep the ‘creative’ in creative services

Bianca DiPietro RGD, Jen Cook, Melissa Wagler RGD

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Designing a Healthy Workplace: Mitigating Burnout in Marketing and Design Teams

IN-HOUSE CASE STUDIES

Freshly Certified – In House Design Case Studies

Hayley Fulton RGD, Sara LeBlanc RGD, Hilary McHale

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Case Studies of Award-winning 2024 In-House Projects
Inspiration

Past winners give advice for entering the RGD In-House Design Awards