Accelerate shared awareness and intentional growth.
For designers, design leaders and design teams.
Shape the best team for your current and future needs
Design runs through every aspect of leading businesses. The differentiator between mediocre and unforgettable. But only when there's the right fit between designers, design team and the organisation.
Through understanding the current team shape and what the organisation needs, you can more intentionally shape the best team for your current and future needs.
Shaping workshops help design teams get rapid clarity on where they are and what they need to best support the organisations they serve.
Shaping workshops help design teams
Accelerate shared awareness
Rapidly engage in shared awareness.
Helping individuals understand and build confidence in themselves.
Helping teams understand the diversity of skills, qualities and growth desires.
Intentionally invest in growth
Understand the competence gaps that need filling, and the strengths that need reinforcing to better focus external development investment and internal mentoring programmes.
Shape the best team for your org.
Shape the design team that your organisation needs now.
Hire, retain and develop talent for what your organisation needs now, and in the future.
Engaging Tools
Visual lenses to engage
The Shaping tools are visual lenses that help to positively engage individuals and teams in valuable reflection and growth clarification.
A toolkit of visual canvases
Each tool exposes individual differences, strengths, potential, and room for growth.
Lenses across layers of difference
Tools offer perspectives across multiple layers of self and team: including environmental, technical, foundational, relational and identity.
Developed over 20 years
The Shaping Toolkit and workshops have been designed, adapted, evolved, and since 2005 influenced similar tools and work across the global design industry.
A snapshot of some of the visual tools Jason uses
The visual tools rapidly engage participants in self-awareness
The visual data can be catalogues in an Airtable or similar for analysis and reference
Data can also be further analysed for patterns across the aggregate
The workshops can be run online
Jason has run in-person workshops with anything from 5 to 60.
"We ran the shaping design workshop during a sea change within the organization, and society at large.
Jason's support, guidance and tooling helped to ground our designers, give space for meaningful self-reflection and purposeful ownership of individual's futures.
The physical nature of the tools flexed our preconceptions, allowed us the plasticity in our thinking, which resulted in surprising insights.
The framing of the workshop set the tone and guided us through our personal journeys, and how the environment and surroundings hinders or excels our capabilities.
This has been the most meaningful design tailored training I've seen throughout my time as a UX manager."
ALANA WOOD RIEDEL - WHILE SENIOR UX MANAGER, GOOGLE HEALTH
ORG. BENEFITS
Help your organisation…
Identify the best team shape for their specific needs now and in the future.
Hire, retain and develop talent for what it needs now and the future
Lower training costs through intentional peer mentoring, and targeted investment where it is needed
Make the most of your development budget with guided mentor-matching and targeted investment where it matters most
DESIGN TEAM BENEFITS
Help your design team…
Strengthen connection and identity through improved psychological safety and shared awareness
Gain rich insight from their diversity by valuing differences and normalising similarities
Boost their individual and team confidence by helping them know their place
Generate valuable data for now and the future to shape the team and resources effectively
BESPOKE TAILORING
A range of options to fit your needs
Group workshop for individual participants
½ day online or in-person for individuals.
Team workshop
1 day online or in-person sessions for teams from 5 to 150.
Design leader and operator training
1 day train the trainer session, to train you to run these workshops in-house and co-design your own team session.
Bespoke workshops and consultancy
Workshops and consultancy tailored to your needs and context.
For more information on what is included, and how we can tailor a workshop to suit your needs, get in touch.
Organisations Jason has run shaping workshops with include;
Delivered by Jason Mesut
Respected design leader, strategist, coach and creator of the Shaping Design toolkit
Developing shaping tools for 20 years
Jason has been designing, iterating and adapting his popular shaping tools since 2005.
Certified coach and mentor to designers and design leaders
Jason is an EMCC certified coach and mentor to design leaders and designers.
Led design teams at different scales
Jason has led teams from 5 to 60, hired 100s of practitioners, and reviewed 1000s of cvs and folios.
Respected design leader and strategist
Jason helped grow the UX industry through running events, speaking at leading conferences and mentoring 100s of designers across the world.
Jason also still consults as a product-service strategist.