I’m a UX Leader who built a team of designers and researchers for a security company. After a year I also added a UX Engineer to the team. I led my team to create interactive workshops and educational content to help non-designers. I set a vision - I wanted my team to help their counterparts focus on real problems. This process was slow but worthwhile. We were able to benefit the entire company through our relationship-building and guidance.
Prior to that, I had 10 years of experience building websites, apps, and digital products. My focus during that time was interaction design, information architecture, qualitative research, product strategy, facilitating workshops and group alignment. My background in teaching UX allows me to help both for my direct reports and cross-functional partners.
Below are some projects that I’ve worked on while managing a UX team. Below that, I’ve written out the values I’m looking for in an organization. If you want to see my work before, go to my consulting portfolio. To see my written resume, go here.
I believe in creating safe spaces that help bring out the best in people. Through many years of personal development, counseling, and coaching, I’ve practiced the skills that allow me to build the foundation for innovative teams. You can read about my leadership philosophy or my advice for new design leaders.
<aside> 💡 I’d like to work at a human-centered company or with a leadership team who wants to create a human-centered design (HCD) organization. HCD organizations deliver projects to market 50% faster with reduced design, development and maintenance costs. Design-led companies have a maintained stock market advantage, outperforming the S&P 500 by an 211%. Companies that rank at the top of the 4 components of McKinsey’s Design Index increased their revenue growth 32% higher than others in a 5-year period.
When you invest in people, whether it be your customers or your employees, you create long-term sustainability for an organization where everyone wins.
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<aside> 💡 In Brené Brown’s “Dare to Lead” book she states that we need more leaders "who are self-aware enough to lead from their hearts, rather than unevolved leaders who lead from hurt and fear.” I’ve developed my leadership skills with these aspects in mind and want to be around other leaders who value this as well.
There’s a beautiful quote by Dame Minouche Shafik, the Director of the London School of Economics. “In the past, jobs were about muscles, now they’re about brains, but in the future, they’ll be about the heart.” That’s where I want to work. In the future, with strong leaders who know that vulnerability is a strength and not a weakness.
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