I have been playing as a designer for 15 years, innovating products, services, strategies and curricula, all with a focus on awesome human experiences.
Passions:
- cultivating creativity
- prototype tinkering
- fresh socks
Some skills:
- qualitative research
- user experience design
- design strategy
- design thinking
- portfolio planning
- experience prototyping
- creative facilitation
- innovation consulting
- visual thinking
- one-handed clapping
Some current projects:
Blob Life – My wife and I are on a mission to help kids fight the ‘blob life’ and get them moving with toys that promote active and imaginative play.
Playful Factory – Helping kids design their own toys through online and in-person facilitation and fabrication.
Nemesis Club – Working with Playful Ventures, we created one of the top 25 escape rooms in the world… and there are more to come!
Sherwin-Williams – Leading the adoption of design thinking as a key component in the transformation of the organization’s culture, strategy, and approach to what is next for Sherwin-Williams.
Some recent projects:
MIDE Studio – Running a design studio within a top 20 business school, helping upcoming leaders cultivate whole-minded approaches to change-making.
Project SBP – Taking a design thinking approach to facilitating the redesign of the medical residency education in collaboration with three major healthcare systems across the US.
RBC Medical – Crafting intuitive user interfaces for medical surgical devices.
Let’s play!