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For the majority of my career, I’ve been devoted to solving design challenges for clients in a variety of roles and contexts. I’m still doing that. Most recently, as a director at the strategic design consulting firms Cooper and then Designit, I worked to lead human-centered design projects, develop practice capabilities, mentor practitioners, teach courses and manage client relationships. Before that, I worked in a variety of environments (health marketing, affordable art, urban mobility) and ran my own small design business for 15 years.

 

For the past three years, as a dedicated member of the Cooper Professional Education team at Designit, I’ve harnessed practitioner knowledge to design programs that empower clients and design practitioners to solve their own challenges through project coaching and training. I’ve supported global teams like United Technologies with innovation coaching, in addition to crafting and facilitating a suite of experiential courses on human-centered design methods (e.g. service design, UX, facilitation, research and leadership). Some recent curriculum authorship includes a course to empower executives to support their teams in applying human-centered design mindsets and a live remote course on Facilitating Remote Workshops in May of 2020.

 

In service of my own goal to more broadly support clients in theirs, I began the road to leadership coaching. In February 2020, I completed my coach training at the Co-Active Training Institute, the largest and most rigorous coach training and certification organization, and am currently finishing my required coaching hours for the Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC) designation from CTI.