Stakeholder Success: Mastering Design Presentations with Leadership Guidance

No matter where you're designing, there's always one thing you can count on: stakeholder input. And if you can't avoid it, you might as well embrace it!

Learning to love the stakeholder presentation is a crucial step in advancing your design career, and it's a skill that you'll lean on in every job. If you've ever been stressed about sharing your work because you know there'll be some messy feedback, then it's time to work on it.

Maxy's presentation will take you through the five secrets to get you through any stakeholder management problem, with practical tips so that you can apply them immediately. And if you're in a position to lead designers, we'll also cover some ways to get these lessons through to your team and coach them through their stakeholder woes.

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Maxy Lotherington

Maxy is the Head of Product & Design at InvestorHub, where she leads product managers and designers to bring capital markets into the digital age. She spends her time charting the course for product, coaching and developing her team, and collaborating with whoever she can to drive better conversion and retention. Although rarely in Figma these days, she can often be found solving problems on a whiteboard.

Maxy has designed at small startups, multinational corporations, and everything in-between. She loves wrangling complexity, rapid ideation, and the blend mode dropdown.

She also writes a weekly newsletter, Work Bestie, which contains everything you need to know to own your career growth.

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