Human-Centered Design Thinking Leader and Educator
UX & Design Team Leadership | Strategic Design | Training & Coaching
I create innovative design strategy and practical product and service concepts for user experience (UX) by applying deep creative skills and broad experience.
Designing and facilitating human-centered design workshops with domain leaders, users, and client partners. Designing and executing design research of both domain experts and users. Synthesis and identification of opportunities for focus and subsequent design efforts and to inform further work by other teams. Currently focused in the Food is Medicine space within healthcare.
Advanced practice of design thinking and human-centered design across global enterprise through curriculum development and design, tailored presentations, workshop design and leadership, and individual and team coaching.
Led cross-disciplinary design and engineering teams and practice of physical product design while also advancing practice of design thinking and human-centered design across global enterprise. Met objectives of excellence of practice and adoption of human-centered design crucial to senior leadership’s corporate transformation strategy: always starting with what people need.
Led team project portion of a program designed to enable mid-career emerging leaders and entrepreneurs to pursue social impact initiatives and/or ventures, employing mindsets and methods of design thinking. Founded and led program. Content was subsequently adapted to be core of program and other courses based on success of student projects and enthusiasm for what was learned.