Strategic Influence for Content Designers
Most content designers have been told to “advocate for their work” but advocacy alone rarely changes how organizations operate.
Real influence comes from identifying meaningful opportunities, leading initiatives, and connecting content design to outcomes the business cares about.
This workshop teaches a repeatable framework — the Strategic Influence Cycle — for building credibility and impact inside your organization.
What you’ll walk away with
- A four-stage framework for turning content design insights into business impact
- The ability to identify opportunities where content design can influence product strategy
- A method for framing UX insights in language that resonates with product and business stakeholders
- Tools you can apply on Monday: a strategic opportunity worksheet, a content value framework, and an initiative proposal template
Who this is for
- Mid-to-senior content designers and UX writers who want to move beyond execution and into strategic impact.
- Especially valuable for content design leads and managers, practitioners working on complex or enterprise products, and designers preparing to move into leadership roles.
- You should already have experience working on product teams. This workshop is about increasing your influence and impact, not establishing yourself in the role.
Details
Format: Live online
Presenter: Kim Bennett, Principal Content Design Manager at Microsoft
Dates: TBD. Join the waitlist and we’ll notify you when sessions are scheduled.
PRESENTED BY
Kim Bennett
Kim Bennett is a Principal Content Design Manager at Microsoft, where she leads a team of content designers working across a portfolio of products in the security space.
With more than 20 years of experience across journalism, marketing, and UX, she specializes in strategic content design for complex products and enterprise platforms.
Her expertise spans content design craft, systems thinking, terminology research, and Object-Oriented UX (OOUX), with a focus on creating clarity, delivering value, and designing experiences users understand, enjoy, and trust.