About Designing Leadership

“Designing Leadership is like being handed a new pair of glasses. Andrew quickly helped me zoom out from how I was thinking about leading my business and how I could be most effective. His perspective challenged my assumptions and brought the strategy into much sharper focus.”

James Henderson, Seismic Digital

Andrew's Designing Leadership program facilitates creative actions to promote one authentically achieving their leadership goals.  Andrew sought to understand my goals as a leader and collaboratively designed meaningful ways to achieve these goals over the course of the program. The beauty of Designing Leadership is that it isn't anchored in formal textbook leadership standards. It naturally captures the best leadership traits you possess and allows you to continue to stretch them to grow.”

Jarrod Atkinson, Rochester Regional Health

About Andrew Benedict-Nelson

“Andrew was an invaluable thought partner as the work I was undertaking went through several major transitions, periods of uncertainty, and a number of staff transitions. His strategic thinking – and the questions he asked and helped me answer – helped propel the work to a much-higher level, allowing us to push the envelope in ways that led to innovation and positive change.”

Beth Toner, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

“Advocacy initiatives such as those surrounding the current state of acute and critical care nurse staffing are extremely complex, fraught with barriers, and have no one simple solution. Andrew's expertise helped us deconstruct the issues and look at integral components in a way that has broadened and extended our thinking. Andrew's strategic advising, knowledge of design thinking and social change helped us to successfully bring together diverse thinkers and stakeholders in a way that promoted action-oriented evolution of our staffing work.”

Linda Cassidy, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses

“Andrew takes an inclusive approach that accommodates beginners and those who’ve never even heard of design thinking. In our sessions about a child welfare project, Andrew pulled examples from unexpected fields, including nursing and education, to help people relate and really bring the design thinking concepts to life.”

Amy Templeman, Social Current