I opened the Design Leadership Summit in Toronto with my talk on “Decision Making in a Time of Uncertainty” and also lead a workshop on the second day on “How to Coach Yourself and Your Team with the Tarot”.
My talk explored how we deserve better. Accessing your subconscious isn't just for creative brainstorming, but you can use it for helping you get unstuck for anything, for anything that you are facing as a Design Leader. And there are new approaches to expanding the brainstorming phase of design thinking worth trying!
Session Description: We continue to be faced with compounding uncertain times. As Design Leaders, we are looked to by our teams for the answers, inducing anxiety for us. In these uncertain times, normal business frameworks don’t always lead to an obvious solution. We encourage our teams to access their subconscious for brainstorming to solve creative problems, but we also deserve techniques to access our subconscious to help unlock all of our decision making. Using data to prove that this is a trend sweeping society, this talk will detail practical methods for accessing the subconscious to help make decisions by looking at problems differently and alleviating anxiety and stress around decision making.
