Design leadership values
I’m driven to find savvy ways to integrate the benefits of design into everything an organization does—from identifying life-improving impacts, to holding ourselves accountable to meaningful outcomes, to supporting design teams, processes, operations, and quality. And, all the while, keeping a laser focus on what to say “yes” to given finite energy, resources, and time.
Doing interesting, effective, and impactful work in an organization that values design, designers, and their well-being feels pretty incredible. Let’s do more of that!
Strengths
Design impact
Design teams
Design quality
Design community
Design for accessibility & equity
I support teams and organizations by:
Design impact
Guiding design teams and colleagues in eliciting meaningful impacts and outcomes, and then the best strategies for success.
Ensuring that design has a seat at the right tables, and is working well with research, product and engineering.
Keeping our goals and portfolios aligned through regular 1:1s and planning meetings.
Representing design in town halls, strategy decks, planning cycles, and org design.
Incorporating design ethics and sustainability into the earliest phases of our design work.
Design teams
Developing high performing teams who pass the elevator back down for others.
Supporting and helping grow the careers of my direct reports, and their teams.
Caring about my teams, peers, and partners as people.
Ensuring designers have the trust, psychological safety and creative space to do their best work.
Providing timely and constructive feedback, and working through issues together.
Building inclusive and diverse teams, and recognizing team members for their unique contributions.
Design quality
Ensuring product development is user-driven by incorporating user research and design strategy.
Supporting the development of shared design principles, standards, and training.
Strengthening design quality with constructive and collaborative accountability.
Infusing inspiration from other disciplines.
Helping design managers prioritize competing priorities from multiple stakeholders across multiple projects.
Evaluating processes for their ROI, and removing or simplifying cumbersome processes.
Design community
Helping everyone in the organization see how they can contribute to the amplifying the benefits of human-centered design.
Building connections, partnerships, and collegiality amongst
