Influence is the secret to great Design
Spending hours painstakingly tweaking, adjusting, and refining your argument, hoping next time it works… you're not the only one.
That’s why I've created the ultimate starting point for learning business: a 7-day email course and activity challenge. It’s packed with the best, most practical frameworks from the flagship CDO School program, which has been trusted by over 2,500 designers for the past 6 years.
This sample course alone has helped designers from companies like:
What's inside? A 6-day email course with daily activites. 6 key influence concepts to become the Designer that makes things happen.
The SCR Framework: The love language of business people
The Imago Dialogue Script: Effectively manage up
Metric Journey Maps: The best way to connect design to business
The Design Value JTBD: Framing design as business value
POKRs: Factors of product quality that drive business outcomes
The ERRC Grid: Master the art of prioritizing
5 out of 5 stars
“The pace and size of activities was bang on. The content is original and not spoon fed. It really challenged me to think!"

Meet the author

Ryan Rumsey is the founder of CDO School and CEO of Second Wave Dive. CDO School is where experienced designers come to grow beyond design. Over 2,5000 designers and leaders worldwide have graduated from CDO School.
Before CDO School, Ryan made his way up from Designer to Executive. He designed software at Apple, then built and led in-house product teams at EA, Nestlé and USAA. Ryan is one of the leading voices in the world for connecting design to business. His book Business Thinking for Designers has been read by 60K people.