Help your audience see what’s possible.
I speak and lead workshops that give leaders fresh ways to think about design, leadership, organizational change, AI, and what it takes to turn ambitious ideas into reality.
Talks & Workshops
I give talks and run workshops at conferences and private events.
Autodesk University 2025, AECO Industry Keynote 2025 - recording
Designers as Agents of Change 2021, “Designing for Change”
Proximity Lab Vision Series 2020, “Developing a Product Vision to Design the Future” - recording
EuroIA 2019, "Elevating Design: Create a strategic plan to increase your impact" - slides & resources
WebExpo 2019, “Facilitative Leadership: Guiding Teams to Success” - slides & resources
EuroIA 2018, "Maps & Markers: Crafting a Strategy to Transform Your Design Team" - slides & resources
UX Cambridge 2018, "Maps & Markers: Crafting a Strategy to Transform Your Design Team" - slides & resources
UX Week 2018, "Maps & Markers: Enacting a Strategy to Transform Your Design Team" - slides & resources
Women Who Code CONNECT Conference 2018, "Disrupting Traditional Industry"
Hexagon UX 2018, "Designing for Growth"
EuroIA 2017, "Race to the Top: Building Skyscrapers & Design Teams that Soar" - video, slides
Tech+ Expo 2017, "Building with Empathy" - slides
Construction Visionaries 2017, "Building with Empathy" - slides
Forge Conference 2016, "Design Means Business" - slides
UXPA 2016, "Coaching Lean Experiments in an Agile World" - slides
Bay Area Girl Geek 2016, "Designing from the Heart"
Enterprise UX 2015, "How to Coach Enterprise Experimentation" - video, slides, resources
SXSW Interactive 2015, "Behind the Wireframe: UX Leadership Secrets
Grace Hopper Women in Computing 2015, "Crafting a career in User Experience
SXSW Interactive 2014, "UX Love Potion: Influencing Through Collaboration" - slides
deLUX 2014, "UX Love Potion: Influencing Through Collaboration
Corporate training at top tech companies - slides
Media & Publications
I share advice for design leaders on top media outlets and Medium.
Designer Fund, “Driving Impact Through Design: A Fireside Chat with Alissa Briggs”
Design Systems by Figma, “Building a design system one brick at a time”
Product Tribes, “Product Tribes AMA – Alissa Briggs”
FastCo.Design, “How Do You Design UX For Someone Who’s Never Used A Computer?”
DesignBetter.Co, “Alissa Briggs: Constructing better designer-developer collaboration”
Invision Webinar, “How to coach design experiments”
UX Pin Webinar, “Lean Experiments for Agile Teams”
UX Podcast, “Building a Design Team with Alissa Briggs”
Life of Design, “Life of Design: Alissa Briggs”
Digital Construction News, “DCN Talks with Alissa Briggs”
Construction Executive, “Keys to Successful Technology Adoption: Finding Solutions With the User in Mind”
Quoted in AEC Industry Publications: Graitec, ENGTechnica
O’Reilly Media, Mobile Design Pattern Gallery (contributing author)