Design Leadership Skills — Design skill for Claude Code
Agentic skills, commands, and plugins for design leadership — from people and teams to strategy, influence, operating cadence, and the craft of leading.
How to install Design Leadership Skills
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What Design Leadership Skills does
Agentic skills, commands, and plugins for design leadership — from people and teams to strategy, influence, operating cadence, and the craft of leading.
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README
Design Leadership Skills Collection
**Part of the [Designer Skills suite](https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills).** Install this collection and four more with one command in Claude Code:
`/plugin marketplace add Owl-Listener/designer-skills`
This repo still works on its own. The suite just gives everyone one front door.
Agentic skills, commands, and plugins for design leadership — from people and teams to strategy, influence, operating cadence, and the craft of leading. **32 skills** and **12 commands** across **6 plugins** for [Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code).
Plugins
| Plugin | Skills | Commands | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| people-management | 6 | 2 | Manage and grow people: 1:1s, feedback, growth plans, performance reviews, career ladders, and difficult conversations. |
| team-building | 6 | 2 | Build the team: hiring loops, job specs, portfolio review, onboarding, team topology, and psychological safety. |
| design-strategy | 5 | 2 | Set direction: design vision, strategy documents, org-level design principles, investment cases, and portfolio prioritisation. |
| org-influence | 5 | 2 | Influence the organisation: executive narrative, influence mapping, design advocacy, securing resources, and managing up. |
| operating-cadence | 5 | 2 | Run the operating system: design reviews at scale, planning cadence, decision frameworks, delegation, and operating rhythm. |
| leadership-craft | 5 | 2 | Lead yourself: self-leadership, change leadership, conflict resolution, mentorship, and leadership ethics. |
Quick Start
Claude Code
**Step 1: Add the marketplace**
/plugin marketplace add Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills
**Step 2: Install plugins**
/plugin
Open the **Discover** tab to see all 6 plugins, then install the ones you want.
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