United States

UX Design

UI/ Visual Design

Branding and Identity Design

Design Operations

Service Design

Content Design

Product Design

Customer Experience (CX)

Generalist Product Management

Digital Marketing

Growth Design

Data Analysis

Content Strategy

College of Visual Arts

Alison Gretz

Design Leadership Coach

Manager Foundations Course

Leading with your Values Workbook

Consulting Site

Product strategy

Qualitative research

Communication

Time management

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Conflict resolution

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Blog writing

Content creation

Information architecture

User research

WordPress

Canva

Notion

Problem-solving

Public Speaking

Negotiation

Brand strategy

Content strategy

Product roadmap

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Executive Coach supporting leadership teams in creating high-performing, psychologically safe and human-centered environments. Available for select Consulting & Fractional Leadership projects in Product Transformation, UX Design or Digital Strategy. 

Offerings:
• Executive Coaching for Leaders & Teams
• Team Learning & Development Programs
• Meeting & Retreat Planning, Hosting, Facilitation
• Design Sprint Facilitation, Product Discovery/Strategy
• Fractional Chief of Staff & Change Management Support
• Custom Learning & Development Programs for Product & UX folks with specialties in cross functional Leadership/Management, Psychological Safety & Workplace Health, Change Management and Coaching

Led and grew a global team building the future of Legal and Tax applications across the entire TR portfolio. Responsibilities included direct management of a team of 150+ UX and Content Designers working in complex data organization and decision making software. Established new global location in Mexico City, including launch event and rapid interview process. Created UX Manager learning and development program and coached across Product and Engineering roles.

Led the re-building of the Shutterfly creative team, hiring 75+ people while transitioning work and teams from CA to MN through the wild ride of 2020. Transformed work quality and processes including insourcing photography and production saving over 2m annually while increasing speed and capacity. Reinvigorating the Shutterfly brand through design sprints and iterative brand expression work on all channels. Developed new creative operating models that allow scaled multi-variant content for personalization and testing that maintain brand quality. Developed creative talent across the organization for Shutterfly, Snapfish and the broader Shutterfly, Inc portfolio.

Built and led multiple design teams working in a fast-paced agile environment. Responsible for the career growth and development of 20+ designers, researchers and writers in addition to leading Product Design work for Target's mobile apps and Registry Products. Proven business impact and high employee retention rates through times of high growth and change.

Mpls MadWomen creates a broad circle of support, professional development and networking for women working in advertising and related fields – all aimed at a constructive conversation around gender issues.

I led the charge in founding the fast-growth non-profit organization through it's conception and initial four years. This included the establishment of the Board of Directors and business in addition to leading content strategy and event planning. High demand and growth rate spurred tough decisions about national scope, volunteer management and board management. Proud to have set up this non-profit business for continued impact and success beyond my leadership.

I led the development of a broad Experience Design discipline at Fallon. Managing a small team that tackled projects of all size and nature – from traditional UX Design on large websites to strategic Experience Design recommendations. 

Evangelizing human centered design processes and thinking throughout the agency, while elevating execution of all initiatives was balanced with leading complex projects for clients like Arby's, Cadillac, Travelers, Fallon StarterKit, Herradura Tequila and Woodford Reserve Bourbon.

Alison Gretz🇺🇸