We talked with Dabney Hailey, founder and principal of Hailey Group, about the Visual Thinking Strategies (or VTS) method, why it works, how to bring elements of it into your daily practice, and why leaders should shift to the facilitative leadership style this method teaches. Here are six takeaways from our conversation.

With every new year, we’re faced with excitement at the open slate ahead of us. We’ve collected some resources to help you take the next step in your career. Whether you’re trying to become a better leader, more creative thinker, or more compelling storyteller, we’re here to support you.

IDEO U instructors and creative leaders share skills that will be critical for success in the coming year.

What it means to be a human-centered leader, why soft skills are more important than ever, and how to lead by creating space for others.

IDEO’s Lauren Collins and Harvard Business School Professor Frances Frei share actionable tips for how to lead by empowering others.

Get activities and ideas for onboarding a team from IDEO’s Heather Currier Hunt.

Consider your delivery of difficult information an experience to be designed. Here’s a step-by-step guide to getting into messy truths.

Katie Soven, senior portfolio director at IDEO and IDEO U course instructor shares how to maintain team momentum through complexity...

Entrepreneur and CEO Brit Morin shares stories from the early days of her startup Selfmade, lessons on human-centered leadership, and ways women are uniquely suited to excel as entrepreneurs. Here are seven qualities she says are often under-valued but closely tied to entrepreneurial success.

Try this activity at the start of a new project to help your team get comfortable tapping into their intuition.

Intercorp’s Chief Innovation Officer Hernán Carranza shares how innovation keeps a company moving toward realizing their purpose and ways creative leaders can act now to have long-term impact.

IDEO Senior Portfolio Director Dwayne Edwards gives a framework for balancing intuition and data, shares strategies to surface an intuitive ability in yourself and in your team, and talks about the importance of building self-awareness to fuel your intuition.