Strategy Ateliers

Lisbon • April 22+23, 2027

For those who want to connect design to drive business outcomes beyond the design team.

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Agentic Ateliers

Berlin • May 13+14, 2027

For those who want to connect design to drive business outcomes beyond the design team.

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Leadership Ateliers

Amsterdam • May 20+21, 2027

For those who want to connect design to drive business outcomes beyond the design team.

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Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Sara Wachter-Boettcher

Leadership Coach & CEO

Active Voice

Sara Wachter-Boettcher is the CEO of Active Voice, a leadership training company that helps designers do their best work—without burning out. She launched Active Voice in 2020 after more than a decade as a UX consultant, keynote speaker, and author.

Sara’s books include Content Everywhere, Design for Real Life (with Eric Meyer), and Technically Wrong, and she has spoken at events like SXSW, Push UX, UX Y’all, Mind the Product, and dozens more. She’s based in Philadelphia.

Sara's Ateliers Sessions

Barcelona, 2026

Map your Organization, build your Power

You’re trying to transform your organization—make it more innovative, more digitally centered, and more capable of great design outcomes. But day-to-day, things aren’t easy: Projects stall, priorities shift, and progress feels slow.

Feel familiar? This session is for you. We’ll kick off our time in Barcelona with a deep-dive into why so many design leaders get stuck when trying to make change in large enterprises or traditional industries, and what you can do to achieve your vision instead.

At the heart of this work is understanding power: How does it move through your organization? Who holds sway in the areas that are most important to design? Which informal relationships and alignments can help you get things done and which ones might create roadblocks? And perhaps most importantly, where does your own power lie?

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