Cap Watkins is a leadership coach in Brooklyn focused on
non-executive leaders, as well as an organizational
consultant. Previously, Cap was VP of Design at BuzzFeed,
led design teams at Etsy and worked for companies like
Amazon and a bunch of startups no one's ever heard of. :)
Cap believes strongly in cross-functional,
highly-collaborative teams, where every member shares
product, design and technical responsibility in order to
ship great outcomes.
As a leadership coach, I've completed approximately
600 one-on-ones with designers and design leaders, as
well as their counterparts in engineering and product
management. Whenever I take on a new client, they
consistently ask me about the common threads, the
struggles we all face across various levels of
leadership. In this talk, I'll dig into what I've
learned over the past year of coaching designers and
leaders, as well as how to thoughtfully approach the
challenges we all universally face.