Your design thinking is excellent. How is your business thinking?
Design leaders are trained to solve problems. The skills that make someone an exceptional designer: taste, craft, and user empathy, are not the same skills that make someone an effective leader in a room where the conversation is about revenue targets, funding rounds, or the roles AI just made redundant.
Nobody with budget authority knows why design matters if you don’t make it matter.
I help design leaders fix that. Not by abandoning what makes design powerful, but by learning to connect it to the questions the business is already asking.
Upstream by Design
The disruption narrative is being written right now, in your organization, by people who aren't designers. The real challenge isn't learning the tools. It's navigating the organizational dynamics, building the business acumen, and developing the leadership range to expand design's strategic influence at a moment when everyone else in the room thinks AI makes you optional.
The leaders who understand both the threat and the opportunity are the ones who get to frame what happens next.
Inspirational Leadership
Inspirational Leadership is a structured six-module coaching program built specifically for design leaders. It is sequenced deliberately for design leadership, covering the full range from emotional intelligence, clarity and transparency, building a feedback culture that works, navigating risk and accountability, leading with purpose, and developing a team that can sustain that standard without you in the room.
It will show you things about your leadership that are uncomfortable to see. That is not a warning. That is the point.
Coaching
AI is reordering every assumption about who creates value in an organization. I will help you navigate the organizational dynamics, build the business acumen, and develop the leadership range to expand design's strategic influence before someone else defines design's value for you.
Speaking
Learn how to increase your market share, improve customer satisfaction, and establish competitive advantages. My talks explore the full spectrum of design leadership and the transformative impact of GenAI, inspiring bold thinking and meaningful change.
Advising
I have co-founded a half a dozen start-ups, and helped nine others achieve success. I have been fortunate to work with some of best industry leaders, Bill Gates, Hasso Plattner, and many more. Learn how I can can help you make your idea into a viable business.