Giving back left & right brain energy.

Filling craniums with delicious
 design tool knowledge.

I teach design thinking and design tools workshops.
And I mentor new and aspiring creatives.

Figma Intro and Intermediate classes and corporate workshops

Via the School of Visual Concepts, taught regular classes, in addition to corporate workshops for Nordstrom, REI, Microsoft, Brooks Running, Costco, Paula’s Choice and Cengage.

Design tools course for Amazon’s first UX apprenticeship program

Taught as a kickoff for a cohort of  apprentices, 32 students spent a year going through a rigorous program where if they passed successfully they were guaranteed a full-time job at Amazon.

Upleveling design, product and engineering teams with workshops:

Design Thinking Workshops for Engineers

Understand and embrace design thinking and the voice of the customer, and work through an exercise using an offering from the company’s product line.

Design Thinking with User Research and User Experience

Internal panel conference talk at JPMorganChase.

Integrated Engineer Platform Overview

Internal sessions and panel conference talks at JPMorganChase.

Full stack design curriculum and  initiative

Hosted and occasionally taught  monthly sessions from research and ideation to design systems.

Presentation workshops

Practice and craft to confidently tell a story and pitch to executives.

Design thinking for an engineering-forward audience

Partnering with the Vice President of Customer Experience at Aeris, we created three design thinking workshops whose goal was to move an engineering-forward company towards design thinking.

Employees from engineering, support, sales and marketing (15 in Chicago, 15 in San Jose, and 25 in Noida) broke out into teams and tackled a card sort and wireframing exercise tied to our product lines, and presented to the rest of the group, transforming the company approach to future initiatives.

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