Career Jumpstart for creative professionals

A career development event, providing you with actionable insights and strategies to jumpstart for your career development journey! You’ll learn fresh, career-specific content on emerging industry trends, and insights on resume/CV writing, interview preparation, personal branding, and networking, to get you onto a new, and exciting path to career success in today’s competitive market, all served via a conversational approach to learning.

September 18, 2024

11:00 am

12:00 pm

PST

TRACKS:

Entrepreneurship

ALL SPEAKERS

Christian Garcia-Scheer

SVP, Creative Strategy, Bank of America

I’m an award-winning creative strategist, proud father of 2, husband, and a kick-ass career coach, bringing global, unique perspectives, and innovative solutions to the conversation. From “one-man-show” startups, to Forbes’s 500 Top enterprise companies. He has built and led teams to success for the company as well as fostering great careers within those teams. As a career coach, he has successfully helped over 11K people find their way and seized a new career path. He hopes to inspire you into taking the first steps into a new chapter in your career journey!

MORE SESSIONS

How did I get here? From Criminology to McDonald's to Uber Eats and Beyond

How did a criminology and criminal law graduate end up the Global Head of Marketing for a fintech brand? Join me on the journey from my studies to working for Uber Eats in Taiwan to where I am now.

Isaac Lai

Head of Marketing, ThreeTrader

See details

Career Growth & Leadership

Getting Your Buy-In: Speaking to Stakeholders & Winning Them Over

Getting buy-in seems like an endless battle. It's especially hard in a wave of re-organizations. Now, more than ever, it's imperative to get buy-in to ship value quickly and get out of our own way to improve experiences. We will discuss how to effectively communicate with key stakeholders, how to apply design thinking and user-centricity outside of Product, and we will apply some UX laws / psychology influence our interactions with budget-owners and our tech peers. What really works and why?

Kevin Hawkins

Director, Head of Design & Research, Amenitiz

See details

Career Growth & Leadership

6-Figure Revenue in 6 Months: A Practical Guide for Starting Your Own Design Business

As former colleagues in the corporate world, we embarked on this adventure to create a design studio that's uniquely ours. Despite fierce competition in the field, within two quarters of our inaugural year, we generated over $150,000 in revenue. Join us for a candid discussion of our journey in transitioning from a designer to an entrepreneur and establishing a successful design business. We’ll share our experiences, both the highs and the lows and offer practical insights for aspiring freelancers and studio founders.

Anyi Sun

Co-Founder, Koi Studios

See details

Entrepreneurship

Product Launch Metrics you and your team can't ignore

Launching a new product is a critical moment for any business, and tracking the right metrics can make the difference between success and failure. This presentation will cover everything from aligning teams around the metrics that matter, to conducting a robust post-launch analysis using the Start, Stop, and Continue framework, this has got it all.

Meenal Relekar

Product Marketing Expert & Coach, Ex; DoorDash, Dropbox, Adobe

See details

Entrepreneurship