Leveraging creative strategy, cultural research, applied technology and art, I help leaders and organizations act from the core of who they are, so they can move more smoothly and act more boldly.
Available globally for fractional engagements, advisory projects, and cross-disciplinary collaborations.
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Advisory
Organizations bring me in when something important is shifting and they need to understand what it means. I help them uncover the insights that inspire what comes next, whether that's a brand, a campaign, a product, a team, or new ways of working.
Built an innovation agency in partnership with StrawberryFrog, operating out of the Empire State Building. Directed a nationwide study on women's financial confidence across nontraditional families, immigrant households, and communities that traditional financial systems tend to overlook. The research unlocked board-level investment to develop an AI companion grounded in emotional intelligence and the real complexities of women's financial lives.
Over six years at Capital One, led projects across product design, R&D, and corporate strategy. Explored how behavioral science and psychometrics could be applied to help people become better savers. Conducted early research into short-term lending that laid the groundwork for eliminating overdraft fees entirely. Led design strategy for a family checking account that won a Fast Company Innovation Award. Trained hundreds of executives on design thinking. Brought onto a corporate strategy task force reporting to the CEO to help the bank respond to the cultural shifts of the pandemic.
Facilitated a global design sprint for UN agency staff, focused on redesigning protocols for reporting and responding to sexual harassment. Coached a multidisciplinary team through problem definition, stakeholder mapping, journey design, and product roadmapping.
Led a participatory program for executive leaders from the largest banks in the Eastern Caribbean, helping them adopt design thinking and agile practices to drive digital transformation across their organizations.
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Joined an early-stage startup exploring how personality science could reshape hiring. Defined the first product from scratch, leading foundational research, product strategy, UX, naming, and user testing through to prototype.
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These are experiences designed to interrupt the pace of ordinary thinking. Each piece invites people to step inside a situation, physical, sonic, or social, that makes an important question feel embodied rather than abstract.
A celebration of true authorship in the age of AI. Visitors select a journal, contribute a handwritten reflection, and return it to the collection. The journals travel with the House of Beautiful Business for the next decade, a growing archive of unmediated thought.
A light installation that invites festival participants to reflect on language, time, and attention during an eclipse. Narrow slits carved into a dome allow moving beams of sunlight to project fragments of text onto the inner walls. Words appear, sharpen, drift, and disappear like a living sundial made of language.
A temporary sound installation staged in public space. Using a circle of wireless speakers, the piece creates an immersive field where sound seems to arise from the space itself. Musicians, DJs, and visitors contribute live textures that the system absorbs and transforms in real time. An experiment in public intimacy.
An experimental short documentary filmed in rural Egypt, portraying a family of women inheritors of mourning traditions stretching back over three thousand years. The film doesn't explain grief so much as sit inside it, evoking questions about tradition, womanhood, and what we lose when rituals disappear.
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Founded a global community of generalists interested in exploring the full breadth of the human condition. Produced immersive, participatory cultural events revolving around philosophical themes. Part salon, part performance, part magic. Brought together thinkers and practitioners from across industries for conversations that don't usually happen in the same room.
Currently Building
Projects and ventures I am actively building with partners I believe in. I am open to conversations about partnership, co-founding, and creative collaboration. If something here resonates, let's talk.
Relationl
Founding partner at Relationl, a consultancy and intelligence lab built on a simple premise: relational intelligence is the most durable competitive advantage in an AI-driven world. The capacity to build trust, navigate difference, and create meaning cannot be optimized away. Working with founders, CMOs, and brand leaders on go-to-market transformation, organizational design, and high-trust systems.
Plural
Co-founding Plural, an AI-native media company designed for the Spanish-speaking world. Built around AI editorial workflows, Plural aggregates and surfaces the ideas, stories, and voices that matter across Latin America and beyond.
Kiln Pictures
Partnering with Kiln Pictures, an award-winning creative studio that finds real stories and turns them into films people actually want to watch. I partner on creative strategy and client partnerships, connecting brands with documentary-quality storytelling.
Speaking
I speak and facilitate across sectors, from executive boardrooms to university classrooms, conferences, and international development programs.
Executive and Corporate Training
C-suite leaders, corporate innovation teams, and regional managers across sectors and geographies.
IFC · World Bank
Innovation Training
Ennov8 Program Training
Designed and delivered a design thinking curriculum and activated a company-wide innovation lab for the Grenada Cooperative Bank, commissioned by the International Finance Corporation.
Capital One
Corporate Training
Design Thinking for Non-Designers
Designed and facilitated a hands-on design thinking sprint for hundreds of executives and associates across the bank, guiding participants through empathy, prototyping, and iteration in a single session.
Schneider Electric
WDHB
Customer Journey Mapping for B2B
Facilitated a workshop with 20 regional country managers and SVPs of customer experience from Schneider Electric on journey mapping for the B2B context.
University
Graduate and executive MBA programs at leading institutions.
Cornell Tech
Executive MBA
Lean Product Development and Design Thinking
Delivered a session on lean product development and design thinking for students on the FinTech track of the Cornell Tech MBA program.
Wharton · Penn
Graduate Program
Design Thinking in Large Corporations
Shared perspectives on research, strategy, and product development at scale for first-year students of the Masters in Integrated Product Design.
Harvard University
WeCode
WeCode — Creative Problem Solving
Led a creative problem solving workshop for 50+ students from diverse majors using design thinking methods to tackle real-world challenges.
Columbia University
Graduate Program
Design Strategy and Product Development
Shared best practices on design strategy and product development for students at the Masters in Computer Science.
Social Impact and Public
Social innovation, rapid prototyping, and design for public good.
IDSA
Global Conference
Placemaking for Refugees
Led 12 interdisciplinary designers through a 4-hour rapid prototyping process envisioning opportunities for refugee youth. Concept selected to present on the IDSA main stage.
Teach For All
Mexico Summit
Evolving Organizational Impact
Presented on implementing purpose-driven metrics as organizations grow, to Teach For All entrepreneurs from 40 countries.
Conference and Industry
Keynotes, panels, and workshops at industry conferences.
Future of Travel
Global Conference
Technology and Impact Design Thinking
Led airlines and travel industry players to evaluate the impact of new technologies in-flight, using customized toolkits to practice outcome-focused thinking on VR, wearables, and IoT.
AIGA
Design for Good
The Economy of Meaning
Facilitated a workshop on how to use empathy tools to design more meaningful, sustainable, and successful social enterprises. Part of SPROUT: a series bringing together designers, changemakers, food-focused nonprofits, and social impact organizations.
IDSA
50th Anniversary
Design as a Tool for Organizational Strategy
Guest panelist at the ByDesign 2015 Festival, invited to share ideas on how design can be applied as a tool for organizational strategy and change management.
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Fractional Leadership
Embedded senior strategy, innovation, or creative direction on a part-time or project basis.
Consulting
Positioning, go-to-market, innovation design, and organizational culture work.
Artistic Collaboration
Cultural research, creative direction, installation, film, and cross-disciplinary experiments.
I work with people and organizations who believe the most important questions are yet to be asked. New York. Available everywhere.