Influence isn’t about having the loudest voice or the best ideas. It’s about creating the conditions where good work is trusted, understood, and acted on. In this workshop, we’ll explore how influence works in design leadership — not as authority or charisma, but as something you can deliberately design through relationships, shared understanding, and the structures around your work. We’ll look at how trust is earned, how alignment is built across disciplines, and how forums like critiques and can either amplify good work or quietly undermine it. The focus is on the practical realities of helping work land through strong partnerships, clear framing, and shared ownership, with space for reflection, real examples, and application to your own context.