Building sustainable cultures of design

 

In addition to my product work, I love building sustainable cultures of design in teams big and small. As a design coach and agent of change, I strive to build a space centered around psychological safety. This is a space where team members can be their authentic selves, learn from failure, and openly share their thoughts and ideas.

I believe in nurturing creativity, honesty, and innovation while supporting my team on their journey to uncover their hidden talent and potential.

Cultivating a safe space rooted in design thinking best practices

  • Winter 2022 - Texas State ComDes Exit Review

    At the end of 2022, I had the honor and privilege of being a judge for Texas State’s ComDes Exit Review.

    As a judge, I chose a portfolio for the Expero Digital Design Award. This portfolio represents excellence in UX/UI design and shows a clear understanding of the audience.

    The design process is not always a linear path, and a good designer must adapt their process to the scope and scale of the problems while still crafting strong narratives and supporting design decisions with research and data.

    Winter 2022

  • Extreme Blue Intern Program- Design Thinking Education

    For the past 5 years,  I organized and ran the design mentor partnership with the Extreme Blue intern program. At the beginning of the internship, the coaches and I ran a "crash course"  workshop on enterprise design thinking to help the teams narrow down the scope of their projects and understand their users' needs. For the next ten weeks, I continue checking in with the teams, helping them navigate their projects when it pivots and mediating any disagreements between them and their technical mentors.  

    2016 — 2021

  • Design Project management & agile practices

    As a design lead at IBM, I organized my team's sprint efforts across design/dev/product. Using Github as our single source of truth and our project roadmap, I balanced project needs across the team while addressing urgent issues. My team and I have invested in the time to build best practices by following daily standups, retros. etc. Communication between our cross-function team effortlessly flowed. We were able to launch our pattern library and begin migrating teams over to Carbon 10 in a matter of a few months through our agile practices. 

    2018 — 2021

  • Patterns Cohort Coach program and leadership

    Patterns is IBM’s six-week Design Education Program for early-career designers. I mentored a team (4 designers) throughout their 6-week onboarding while leading educational sessions on developing leadership skills for fellow coaches and patternites.

    Winter 2020

  • Women in Tech - RPI

    More details to come soon, I’ll be speaking at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on a panel of other women leaders.

    Spring 2023

Creating a brighter future

I believe in leveling the playing field for all designers looking to make a better life for themselves and the people they design for. Outside of the studio, I’m available for 1:1 mentorship.

 

ADPList Mentoring

ADPList is a global community of mentors and learners, on a mission to democratize mentorship for all. A platform where people can find, book and meet mentors around the world.

I’m available for 45 min session twice a week.

ADP List mentoring sessions are free and are for anyone apart of the platform.