Name: Designing for Connection: The Hidden Skill of Remote Leadership
Start: 2026-07-08T09:00:00.000-07:00
End: 2026-07-08T10:00:00.000-07:00
Location: Online Event

The cheering squad your design career has been missing

Level Up Club / femke.design

 (Made Manifest) where you will learn how to turn any room (even a virtual one) into a space where people actually connect, participate and contribute.

Even experienced designers and leaders struggle to get people truly engaged, especially in remote or high-stakes settings. Too often, meetings feel flat, participation is uneven, and connection is left to chance. So - how do you create the conditions for real engagement and collaboration?

In this session, we’ll explore simple, practical facilitation techniques and exercises you can use right away to spark connection, build towards psychological safety in teams, and lead more engaging sessions.

, a boutique service design agency for mission driven organizations. She leads transformational projects for clients like Mejuri, Instacart, TELUS, Shopify, the City of Toronto, as well as the Ontario Government. She’s an org design, workshop and facilitation nerd obsessed with team dynamics. She writes the Ask a Service Designer newsletter and has spoken at global conferences like SDN, CanUX, and SD in Gov. Linn has also appeared on podcasts such as Service Design Show and Power of Ten. She loves glitter, dancing, cats, lifting heavy things, baking, and making themed playlists.

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