Miranda

Principal Designer · 13 years in · Founder, Strategic Studio

Helping experienced designers & teams move from execution to influence.

Good design got you here. Being heard gets you further.

Good design got you here. Being heard gets you further.

13 years watching which designers got pulled into the room early and which just got told what to do. I’ve since leveled up hundreds of experienced designers on the strategic skills that grow a design career.

13 years watching which designers got pulled into the room early and which just got told what to do. I’ve since leveled up hundreds of experienced designers on the strategic skills that grow a design career.

Resources

Land the role.

Get the callback, nail the final round, and walk in able to defend every decision in your portfolio.

FREE

Get an instant read on your portfolio.

Drop your portfolio in and find out in under five minutes what a hiring manager sees, and what might be costing you the callback.

Start free now

FREE

Get an instant read on your portfolio.

Drop your portfolio in and find out in under five minutes what a hiring manager sees, and what might be costing you the callback.

Start free now

FREE

Get an instant read on your portfolio.

Drop your portfolio in and find out in under five minutes what a hiring manager sees, and what might be costing you the callback.

Start free now

Walk into interviews able to defend any decision.

Practise on real briefs until explaining the “why” behind your work is second nature; the exact thing that separates the offer from the rejection.

Learn more

Walk into interviews able to defend any decision.

Practise on real briefs until explaining the “why” behind your work is second nature; the exact thing that separates the offer from the rejection.

Learn more

Walk into interviews able to defend any decision.

Practise on real briefs until explaining the “why” behind your work is second nature; the exact thing that separates you from the offer.

Learn more

Know exactly what to build to land the job.

AI-powered analysis of your target roles: where your gaps are, what to prioritise, and a realistic plan to close them before you apply.

Notion + AI prompts

Get recognized.

Build the promotion case, run the room, and make your value impossible to overlook, whether you’re chasing the next level or making sure you’re the last name on any list.

FREE

Walk into every review with the receipts.

Capture your wins year-round, turn them into impact statements that land, and build a promotion-ready case, so you’re never scrambling to remember what you did six months ago.

Notion system

FREE

Walk into every review with the receipts.

Capture your wins year-round, turn them into impact statements that land, and build a promotion-ready case, so you’re never scrambling to remember what you did six months ago.

Notion system

Map the path to your next level.

AI-powered skills-gap analysis and a realistic plan to get promotion-ready. Path A is built for internal advancement: position yourself before the conversation happens.

Notion + AI prompts

Map the path to your next level.

AI-powered skills-gap analysis and a realistic plan to get promotion-ready. Path A is built for internal advancement: position yourself before the conversation happens.

Notion + AI prompts

Rebuild trust when design gets treated like decoration.

A diagnosis framework and 6-week plan to fix the broken stakeholder relationships that keep you out of the room, before they quietly stall your career.

Notion

Rebuild trust when design gets treated like decoration.

A diagnosis framework and 6-week plan to fix the broken stakeholder relationships that keep you out of the room, before they quietly stall your career.

Notion

Run the workshop everyone remembers you for.

20+ workshop recipes, a planning canvas, and the playbook to turn a room full of opinions into real decisions. Facilitation is the fastest way to get seen as a leader.

Notion

Run the workshop everyone remembers you for.

20+ workshop recipes, a planning canvas, and the playbook to turn a room full of opinions into real decisions. Facilitation is the fastest way to get seen as a leader.

Notion

Make your judgment impossible to overlook.

Practise defending real design decisions against real business goals, the senior-level thinking that gets you pulled in early and trusted with the call. Start free with the 5-day course.

Learn more

Make your judgment impossible to overlook.

Practise defending real design decisions against real business goals, the senior-level thinking that gets you pulled in early and trusted with the call. Start free with the 5-day course.

Learn more

1:1 Mentorship

When a template isn’t enough, put me in your corner.

A template can’t read your specific situation. Sometimes you want senior eyes on the actual thing: the portfolio that isn’t landing, the promotion case you’re building, the stakeholder mess you can’t politics your way out of. In a 1:1 we go straight to it, and you leave with a real plan and an honest read on whether the blocker is you or the situation.

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Want to bring me into your team?

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