DirectorEnterprise
Rakesh Patwari
Experience design leader at Walmart; formerly Director of Experience Design, Cisco; Director of Product Design, Salesforce
Every case study plotted by the kind of leadership it took.
What they show
An intro called 'The Fourth Chapter' (coder who could design, designer who could code, design enabler who knows tech, and now a product leader who builds), then 'Leadership in practice': a map of about twenty case studies plotted from tactical to strategic across three lanes, People & Practice, Products & Platform and Cross-functional Partnerships. Each is tagged with the company (Walmart, Cisco, Salesforce, Meta, Juniper) and a theme (AI, Leadership, Privacy, Systems), and the full studies sit behind a password. A 'How I AI' section states four beliefs about AI and design, then backs them with numbers: an agentic platform for 2.2M Walmart associates, $54M in prevented lost sales, a startup product taken from 0 to 1 in four weeks. It closes with a long ledger of teaching (UC Berkeley Extension since 2018), talks, podcasts and awards.
Why it works at this level
The map is the smartest structural idea in this batch. Placing every story on the same two axes gives the reader a vocabulary for leadership work before they read a word of it, and shows range at a glance: some stories are about setting direction, some about raising the bar, some about building the systems a team runs on. It also makes enterprise work legible to people outside enterprise, because the framing is the kind of leadership, not the domain. 'How I AI' is the other thing worth studying: it answers the question every hiring manager is asking right now with beliefs first and receipts second, which is the right order for a leader.
What to steal
Pick two or three dimensions that describe leadership work (strategic vs. tactical; people, product, partnerships) and place each case study on them; it shows range without a paragraph claiming it. If you have a position on AI, write it as a few beliefs followed by what you actually shipped. Keep a public ledger of teaching and talks; at this level it's evidence of influence outside your org.
What I'd change
One thing I'd push on. Every site here is good; this is the note I'd send the author.
The case studies themselves are password-protected, so a cold reader gets the map but not the stories, and the site never states his current title. One open case study and one line saying where he is now would make the rest land.