Confidential briefing
Confidence: High
Hannah
Prepared for your Design Leadership Discovery
What stands out
Across separate conversations, Hannah returned to ownership unprompted each time — wants responsibility for outcomes rather than delivery.
That reads directly onto your side, where decision making happens close to delivery teams.
Recommended next step
Meet Hannah
Suggested first conversation:
- What ownership actually looks like inside your delivery teams.
- Which leadership behaviours bring out their best work.
- How the work here connects to something they'd care about.
You've not met before.
What we've learned
Ownership
When Hannah describes work they were proud of, it is nearly always this: wants responsibility for outcomes rather than delivery.
Heard across separate conversations months apart, described the same way each time.
Leadership
Described in specifics rather than principles — works best where leadership is close to the work rather than above it.
Raised unprompted more than once, with different examples behind it.
Mission
Repeatedly prioritises meaningful retail impact — and the examples behind it were about decisions, not responsibilities.
Revisited deliberately, and Hannah did not soften it.
Why we're confident
We expected leadership to be the deciding factor for Hannah. Repeated conversations pointed at ownership instead, and it has held every time since.
- Ownership, leadership and mission each read the same way from Hannah's side and from yours, separately.
No prior relationship — the reasoning carries this on its own.
Worth discussing first
- What ownership actually looks like inside your delivery teams.
- Which leadership behaviours bring out their best work.
- How the work here connects to something they'd care about.
- How decisions get made, and where they get written down.
- What would make the first year successful here.
Context
Where they are today
Hannah is currently a Brand Designer, based in Lisbon, Portugal. Their employer is theirs to share once you've both agreed to talk.
Where they've operated
Mostly retail and education.
Hannah has moved from Brand Designer to Brand Designer over 17 years — widening responsibility rather than lateral moves. Not looking, but would take the right conversation. Status: not yet connected.