Talks

Selected speaking engagements on design leadership, customer experience, and scaling organizations through complexity.

Leading without Authority: Leadership as a Designer or a Dancer

Leading Design 2018 · London, UK

Designers can supercharge their teams by helping them make better decisions faster. Without explicit authority, individual contributors must use influence to lead, just like the leader in a social dance.

Design as the Downbeat: The Layers of Salsa Music and Good Design Work

Awwwards Conference 2018 · San Francisco, CA

Making a design super team by understanding the layers of collaboration, like the layers in salsa music.

Shaping a Culture of Innovation

FEST_17 · Lima, Peru

How design teams can shape and sustain a culture of innovation within their organizations.

Design or Die Trying

Front Salt Lake City 2017 · Salt Lake City, UT

On the high stakes of design decisions and the commitment required to ship great products.

Design as a Service

AIGA Design Conference 2016 · Las Vegas, NV

What is the table? Why do you want to be there? Why should a designer be invited to it?

Getting a Seat at the Table

Forge 2016 · Philadelphia, PA

What is the table? Why do you want to be there? Why should a designer be invited to it?