I’m a Design Strategy Manager. I connect creativity to grander organizational causes and make it indispensable.
I thrive most when inspiring teams to reimagine realistic solutions for the most formidable of challenges and articulate design impact with clarity.
Drawing on theories from project management, organizational behavior, business strategy, structure, and systems, I've developed DesignOps patterns and practices that enable great work from teams, while helping IC’s transition into senior roles.
Build Foundations
Know yourself
Communicate a clear design vision aligned with business strategy.
Create Vision
Communicate a clear design vision aligned with business strategy.
Find purpose
Finding purpose in a career is not the same as life purpose, but when you find that thing you can dive deep into, it makes work so much more tolerable, even enjoyable.
Enable Work
DesignOperations
Communicate a clear design vision aligned with business strategy.
Grow team
Use design and creativity to attract and hire top talent with diverse backgrounds and skill sets
Develop people
Support continuous learning and upskilling, find and grow your next Leaders
Do Good
Embrace authenticity, find opportunities for less experienced folks to shine, build the next generation, support your community if possible
Planning the S’s
Strategy
To ensure you remains aligned with changing business goals and market environments
Structure
Develop contextual structure and systems roadmaps of items that will help get shared alignment and understanding of where you need to go
Systems
Build a org structure that supports diverse disciplines, support and collaboration
Make Impact
Goals
Communicate a clear design vision aligned with business strategy.
Design Performance
Define what “good” is, and connect results with business impact.
Design Maturity
Communicate a clear design vision aligned with business strategy.
Make Noise
Encourage your people to get out there with personal projects, mentoring, speaking engagements, ventures