This is an essential time for design and designers.
In the face of unprecedented global challenges, the core skills and behaviors of human centered design—empathy, curiosity, inclusion, collaboration, and craft—are needed more than ever. In response, major companies are investing in design at a rate never before seen, and designers are rising into business leadership roles with access and influence, not only over tactical execution, but of strategic business direction.
I’m passionate about how design can drive value for business and society, and how designers can grow into great leaders.
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My recent content on
Design Leadership
Design Lab with Bon Ku is one of my favorite design podcasts. Here I speak with host Bon Ku about the power of scaling design in complex organizations
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In early 2020, I did a talk titled Designers As Leaders: Now That We Have A Seat At The Table, How Do We Prove We Belong? at the IXDA Interaction 20 conference in Milan.
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This article is an overview of a Forrester Research study that analyzed IBM’s Enterprise Design Thinking practice and found quantifiable ROI and powerful business outcomes.
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I spoke to Design Drives podcast host, Sebatian Gier, about design leadership, designing at an enterprise scale, and building a great culture of design.
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This article is the companion piece to the talk I gave at Interaction 20 in Milan.
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An assortment
of previous content
In my return visit to this great series, host Marc Fonteijn and I discuss the “plumbing” of designer career frameworks.
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In this interview, recorded at
Yale School of Management, I discuss how we scaled the global program of design at IBM, with hosts Michael Bierut and Jessica Helfand.
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This talk at TEDx Art Center is from 2012, before my time at IBM, and reflects the Social Impact Design work I was doing at that time with AIGA and elsewhere.
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Debbie Millman, host of this long-running design podcast, and I discuss how designers can use their skills beyond the confines of the profession. "Be the best designer you can. Find lots of new places and organizations and ways to do design."
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In my time at IBM we collaborated with Invision to apply their Design Maturity assessment to more than 15 design teams at IBM. This article in Invision’s Inside Design publication is an overview of the project.
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I delivered the closing keynote at the 2018 Rosenfeld Media Design Ops Summit in New York City.
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As a follow up to my 2018 talk at the Rosenfeld Media DesignOps Summit, I wrote this article about the critical issue of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the emerging practice of DesignOps.