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3x Guest Speaker

HOW is a creative community that embraces every attendee, validates your work, and empowers you to do great things.

Talks

In addition to speaking at large conferences such as HOW Design Live (3x Guest Speaker), Google Design Sprint Conference, UX Strat, The Digital Innovation Summit, The Mobile Innovation Summit and Masterclassing (2x Keynote), I have delivered customized talks and coaching about design leadership, creativity, career development, personal branding and culture to companies like UPS, UserTesting, and Lowe's. 

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If you’re interested in having me speak at your company, see how I can help coach your team, or speak at an upcoming event, please contact me so we can discuss booking and pricing.

Word On The Street

Below are highlights of the some of the talks I have given at major conferences, events and podcasts over the past few years.

HOW Creative Leadership Summit

Rethinking retention strategies needs to be a primary focus for teams in 2022. Resignations are at a record-breaking pace with more and more people leaving to explore new career paths, finding work from home opportunities or taking a pay jump. In this talk, I provide strategies to keeping design teams balanced, productive, motivated and satisfied in addition to catering to the needs and wants of today’s workforce.

Brave UX

In this podcast with Brave UX and Brendan Jarvis, I share some of the lessons I've learned in leading design teams at large companies, including the essential ingredients for enabling innovation in corporate environments and breaking through corporate obstructionism.

Human Insights, UserTesting.com

On this podcast, I join UserTesting's CEO, Andy MacMillan, and Chief Insights Officer, Janelle Estes, to discuss harnessing customer emotion to create meaningful experiences.

Digital Innovation Summit

In this interview following my presentation with Innovation Enterprise, I provide my thoughts on the future of digital strategy, social media and the Internet of Things.

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2x Keynote Speaker

Masterclassing is a global knowledge-exchange event that is intimate, time efficient, and free to attend. It's designed this way so that you can speak directly to industry experts, connect with other leaders, and find real business solutions.

The HOW Design Creative Leadership Summit, took place October 11-12, 2022 as an intimate virtual gathering that focused on the emerging challenges faced by leaders in design, product and engineering roles. Curated by Stephen Gates, myself along with several other world class leaders and speakers, including Greg Larkin, Mauro Porcini and Fe Amarante, shared insights, ideas and tactics that we’ve implemented successfully to lead our teams and drive results.
 
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