Designing for Impact: Elevating UCD and UX Skills for the Next Career Stage

Seminar Snapshot

  • June 6, 2025
  • Full day seminar (9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST)
  • 100% online
  • $250 registration fee

Advance your career with design, technology and innovation

The past three years have been full of change for the User-Centered Design and UX fields. Although the job market may be tight, the need for UX experts — especially those with the skills to lead a team or leverage new generative AI tools — is still strong.

In this 100% online career seminar, you’ll learn from industry experts and network with peers as you:

  • Explore how AI technologies can enhance accessibility in user interfaces, including voice, gesture, and touchless interactions
  • Gain insights into different career paths in UX, including leadership and individual contributor roles
  • Learn about effective strategies for job searching and career advancement in a tight job market
  • Discuss multiple perspectives on the career growth and the future of UX

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Meet Our Speakers

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Rich Beauregard

Sessions: What is Design Leadership, Really? and Finding Your Next Role: Landing a Job in a Tight Market

  • Head of User Experience for Cloud Insights, NetApp
  • MSHFID, Bentley University
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Jason Bowden

Session: What is Design Leadership, Really?

  • VP of UX Design for Core Brokerage, Fidelity Investments
  • BA in Graphic Design, Art Institute of California
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Matt Belge

Session: From Impostor to Expert and Back to Impostor

  • Founder, Vision & Logic LLC
  • BS in Electrical Engineering, Syracuse University
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Mike Fritz

Session: Data-Driven UX: Leveraging Analytics for Better Design

  • UX Research Manager, US Department of Veterans Affairs
  • MSHFID, Bentley University
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Jeremy Kriegel

Session: Finding Your Next Role: Landing a Job in a Tight Market

  • Principal Consultant, Method sans Madness (Previously Audible, Broad Institute, Drizly)
  • BA/BFA, Creative Writing and Electronic & Time-Based Media

     
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Shawn Lawton Henry

Session: Integrating Accessibility Throughout User-Centered Design

  • W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Program Lead, MIT
  • MS in Digital Inclusion
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Matthew Mason

Session: What is Design Leadership, Really?

  • Director of Design Experience, athenahealth
  • MA in Psychology, Brandeis University
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Jenn McGinn

Session: What is Design Leadership, Really?

  • VP of User Experience, Flexera (Formerly: VMWare, Oracle, Nokia, Sun)
  • MSHFID, Bentley University
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Brian T. O'Neil

Session: Measuring ROI of Projects

  • Founder & Principal, Designing for Analytics
  • BA in Music
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Elizabeth Rosenzweig

Session: AI in Customizing and Personalizing User Experiences

  • Founder, World Usability Day
  • MS in Digital Studies - Computer Graphics, MIT
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Dan Speca

Session: Finding Your Next Role: Landing a Job in a Tight Market

  • Director of Design Strategy, EY-Intuitive
  • MSHFID, Bentley University
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Jared Spool

Session: Why Stakeholders Aren’t Seeing UX as Valuable (And What We Do About It)

  • Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Center Centre-UIE (Formerly: US Digital Service, Backman Information Systems)
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Lou Susi

Session: Finding Your Next Role: Landing a Job in a Tight Market

  • Independent Artist and UX Design Consultant, Lou Susi Design
  • MFA in Dynamic Media, Massachusetts College of Art and Design