2026
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Workshop
Design leaders are often pulled in two directions at once: deliver meaningful outcomes this quarter while ensuring they align to a long-term direction that stays relevant amid uncertainty. Many teams resolve this tension poorly, either optimising for immediate delivery at the expense of strategy, or investing in vision until execution falters. This workshop offers a practical way to do both. You’ll connect vision to execution through planning horizons, explicit trade-offs, and disciplined scope boundaries. Leave with a shared language, clear decision tools, and one change you can implement immediately.
Who is it for?
This workshop is for design leaders responsible for both delivery and direction, especially where priorities shift and uncertainty is constant. It’s well suited to design leaders working closely with product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
Top 3 Outcomes
#1
Make trade-offs explicit using lightweight allocation tools that clarify what’s being prioritised and why
#2
Maintain scope discipline with clear boundaries and success criteria, preventing drift while protecting strategic intent.
#3
Apply planning horizons to connect long-term direction with quarterly outcomes, priorities, and execution cadence.
Facilitating this session:
Grant Show is a values-led leader in strategy and design, working at the intersection of storytelling, complexity, and systems that endure. He has led transformations across consulting, product, and global organisations including Salesforce, Deloitte, Autodesk and AusPost. He founded The Outlook festival to reignite the design community in Australia and coaches leaders into their next chapter. Grant is known for aligning people around what matters, with clarity, humility, and playfulness.
