Leadership Values

Leadership Values

Leadership Values

Leadership Values

Leadership Values

It brings me joy to help people achieve their full creative potential.
My design leadership style is people first: people are foundational to building great things. With people at the center, I operate using what I've coined as the 4Ps of Leadership: Success for People, Partners, Projects, and Processes.
And this style is backed by substance: I've honed my leadership approach over many years of experience in multiple tech sectors, company sizes, and scenarios.

It brings me joy to help people achieve their full creative potential.

My design leadership style is people first: people are foundational to building great things. With people at the center, I operate using what I've coined as the 4Ps of Leadership: Success for People, PartnersProjects, and Processes.

And this style is backed by substance: I've honed my leadership approach over many years of experience in multiple tech sectors, company sizes, and scenarios.

It brings me joy to help people achieve their full creative potential.

My design leadership style is people first: people are foundational to building great things. With people at the center, I operate using I operate using what I've coined as the 4Ps of Leadership: Success for People, PartnersProjects, and Processes.

And this style is backed by substance: I've honed my leadership approach over many years of experience in multiple tech sectors, company sizes, and scenarios.

It brings me joy to help people achieve their full creative potential.

My design leadership style is people first: people are foundational to building great things. With people at the center, I operate using what I've coined as the 4Ps of Leadership: Success for People, PartnersProjects, and Processes.

And this style is backed by substance: I've honed my leadership approach over many years of experience in multiple tech sectors, company sizes, and scenarios.

It brings me joy to help people achieve their full creative potential.

My design leadership style is people first: people are foundational to building great things. And with people as the first principle, I operate using what I've coined as the 4Ps of Leadership: Success for People, PartnersProjects, and Processes.

Leadership Style: The 4Ps

Leadership Style: The 4Ps

Leadership Style: The 4Ps

Leadership Style: The 4Ps

Leadership Style: The 4Ps

People Success

People Success

People Success

People Success

People Success

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I achieve success for people by:

  • Developing high-performing leaders who pass the elevator down
  • Co-piloting the careers of my direct reports
  • Caring about my team, peers, and partners as people
  • Recognizing team members for good work
  • Providing timely and helpful feedback, delivered with empathy and encouragement
  • Building inclusive and diverse teams that have diverse design skillsets and backgrounds

I achieve success for people by:

  • Developing high-performing leaders who pass the elevator down
  • Co-piloting the careers of my direct reports
  • Caring about my team, peers, and partners as people
  • Recognizing team members for good work
  • Providing timely and helpful feedback in an empathetic and encouraging way
  • Building inclusive and diverse teams that have diverse design skillsets and backgrounds

I achieve success for people by:

  • Developing high-performing leaders who pass the elevator down
  • Co-piloting the careers of my direct reports
  • Caring about my team, peers, and partners as people
  • Recognizing team members for good work
  • Providing timely and helpful feedback, delivered with empathy and encouragement
  • Building inclusive and diverse teams that have diverse design skillsets and backgrounds

I achieve success for people by:

  • Developing high-performing leaders who pass the elevator down
  • Co-piloting the careers of my direct reports
  • Caring about my team, peers, and partners as people
  • Recognizing team members for good work
  • Providing timely and helpful feedback, delivered with empathy and encouragement
  • Building inclusive and diverse teams that have diverse design skillsets and backgrounds

Partner Success

Partner Success

Partner Success

Partner Success

Partner Success

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I achieve success with and for peers and cross-functional partners by:

  • Getting design a seat at the table as a key part of product development process
  • Ensuring design, product, and engineering work well together
  • Amplifying the business and operational goals we are striving for together
  • Keeping our goals aligned through regular 1:1s and planning meetings
  • Surfacing issues early, and working through them together
  • Cultivating an environment of trust and accountability

I achieve success for peers and cross-functional partners by:

  • Getting design a seat at the table as a key part of product development process
  • Ensuring design, procuct, and engineering work well together
  • Understanding the business and operational goals we are striving for together
  • Keeping goals aligned through regular 1:1s and planning meetings
  • Surfacing issues early, and working through them together
  • Cultivating an environment of trust and accountability

I achieve success with and for peers and cross-functional partners by:

  • Getting design a seat at the table as a key part of product development process
  • Ensuring design, product, and engineering work well together
  • Amplifying the business and operational goals we are striving for together
  • Keeping our goals aligned through regular 1:1s and planning meetings
  • Surfacing issues early, and working through them together
  • Cultivating an environment of trust and accountability

Project Success

Project Success

Project Success

Project Success

Project Success

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I achieve success for projects by:

  • Aligning projects to roadmaps, and quarterly and yearly planning goals
  • Ensuring designers have enough maker time as opposed to meeting time
  • Catalyzing project retrospectives to foster more learning and self-awareness
  • Design, product, and engineering have a shared sense of ownership over project success
  • Having designer archetypes inform project staffing
  • Helping increase the level of craft and business impact of each designer's project work

I achieve success for projects by:

  • Aligning projects to roadmaps, and quarterly and yearly planning goals
  • Ensuring designers have enough maker time as opposed to meeting time
  • Catalyzing project retrospectives to foster more learning and self-awareness
  • Design, product, and engineering have a shared sense of owning project success
  • Having designer archetypes inform project staffing
  • Helping increase the level of craft and business impact of project work

I achieve success for projects by:

  • Aligning projects to roadmaps, and cyclical planning goals
  • Ensuring designers have enough maker time vs. meeting time
  • Catalyzing project retrospectives to encourage more learning and self-awareness
  • Design, product, and engineering have a shared sense of ownership over project success
  • Having designer archetypes inform project staffing
  • Helping increase the level of craft and business impact of each designer's project work

I achieve success for projects by:

  • Aligning projects to roadmaps, and quarterly and yearly planning goals
  • Ensuring designers have enough maker time as opposed to meeting time
  • Catalyzing project retrospectives to foster more learning and self-awareness
  • Design, product, and engineering have a shared sense of ownership over project success
  • Having designer archetypes inform project staffing
  • Helping increase the level of craft and business impact of each designer's project work

Process Success

Process Success

Process Success

Process Success

Process Success

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I ensure we follow the right processes, such as:

  • Ensuring product development is customer-driven by incorporating user research and strategy properly
  • Solving design debt, developing design principles, ensuring quality is upheld
  • Aligning design ops, work flows, and structures with business goals
  • Representing design in town halls, strategy decks, planning cycles, and org design
  • Helping designers prioritize competing priorities from multiple stakeholders across multiple projects
  • Evaluating processes for their ROI, and removing or simplifying cumbersome processes

I ensure we follow the right processes, such as:

  • Ensuring product development is customer-driven by incorporating user research and strategy properly
  • Solving design debt, developing design principles, ensuring quality is upheld
  • Aligning design ops, work flows, and structures with business goals
  • Representing design in town halls, strategy decks, planning cycles, and org design
  • Helping designers prioritize competing priorities from multiple stakeholders across multiple projects
  • Evaluating processes for their ROI, removing or simplifying cumbersome processes

I ensure we follow the right processes, such as:

  • Ensuring product development is customer-driven by incorporating user research and strategy properly
  • Solving design debt, developing design principles, ensuring quality is upheld cross-functionally
  • Aligning design ops, work flows, and structures with business goals
  • Representing design in town halls, strategy decks, planning cycles, and org design
  • Helping designers prioritize competing priorities from multiple stakeholders across multiple projects
  • Evaluating processes for their ROI, and removing or simplifying cumbersome processes

I ensure we follow the right processes, such as:

  • Ensuring product development is customer-driven by incorporating user research and strategy properly
  • Solving design debt, developing design principles, ensuring quality is upheld
  • Aligning design ops, work flows, and structures with business goals
  • Representing design in town halls, strategy decks, planning cycles, and org design
  • Helping designers prioritize competing priorities from multiple stakeholders across multiple projects
  • Evaluating processes for their ROI, and removing or simplifying cumbersome processes

Foundations of Design Management

Foundations of Design Management

Foundations of Design Management

Foundations of Design Management

Foundations of Design Management

These are key indicators of the performance and potential of a design team, which underscore success for people, partners, projects, and processes.
These are key indicators of the performance and potential of a design team, which underscore success for people, partners, projects, and processes.
These are key indicators of the performance and potential of a design team, which underscore success for people, partners, projects, and processes.
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Leadership Substance

Leadership Substance

Leadership Substance

Leadership Substance

Leadership Substance

An approach backed by experience

An approach backed by experience

An approach backed by experience

An approach backed by experience

Backed by experience

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Industries and Companies

  • Experience and expertise across tech industries: Healthcare, eCommerce, Marketplaces, Search, Machine Learning, Advertising, Consumer, Enterprise
  • Applying best practices from startups, Apple, Expedia, Ness (acquired by OpenTable), Pandora and SiriusXM, Yahoo, and beyond


Team growth

  • Led and quickly grown existing teams, for both startups and big corporations
  • People-focused leadership: Led and role modeled career growth, DE&I, and design representation for my orgs; launched mentorship pairing and design upskilling programs
  • Personally recruited over 50 people I’ve managed throughout my career, pulling from my deep network of colleagues, professional connections, and the 130k+ member design communities I’ve built 


Collaboration

  • Worked collaboratively with cross functional peers and executives, in an inclusive and strategic way most of them never did with design before


Vision and execution

  • Proactively driving design and research’s vision and roadmap, and representing it at the executive and company level
  • Ensuring my orgs are well equipped to drive and execute where they need to, and focused on the right things
  • Equally experienced at launching new products (building products from 0 to 1), and iterating and scaling established products


Track record of business results

  • Achieved company-changing business, revenue, and user growth while managing the design for multiple products
  • Designed for 1b users
  • Generated $billions in revenue
  • Launched and iterated on many household name tech products

Industries and Companies

  • Experience and expertise across tech industries: Healthcare, eCommerce, Marketplaces, Search, Machine Learning, Advertising, Consumer, Enterprise
  • Applying best practices from startups, Apple, Expedia, Ness (acquired by OpenTable), Pandora and SiriusXM, Yahoo, and beyond.


Team growth

  • Led and quickly grown existing teams, for both startups and big corporations
  • People-focused leadership: Led and role modeled career growth, DE&I, and design representation for my orgs; launched mentorship pairing and design upskilling programs
  • Personally recruited over 50 people I’ve managed throughout my career, pulling from my deep network of colleagues, professional connections, and the 130k+ member design communities I’ve built 


Collaboration

  • Worked collaboratively with cross functional peers and executives, in an inclusive and strategic way most of them never did with design before


Vision and execution

  • Proactively driving design and research’s vision and roadmap, and representing it at the executive and company level
  • Ensuring my orgs are well equipped to drive and execute where they need to, and focused on the right things
  • Equally experienced at launching new products (building products from 0 to 1), and iterating and scaling established products.


Track record of business results

  • Achieved company-changing business, revenue, and user growth while managing the design for multiple products
  • Designed for 1b users
  • Generated $billions in revenue
  • Launched and iterated on many household name tech products

Industries and Companies

  • Experience and expertise across tech industries: Healthcare, eCommerce, Marketplaces, Search, Machine Learning, Advertising, Consumer, Enterprise
  • Applying best practices from startups, Apple, Expedia, Ness (acquired by OpenTable), Pandora and SiriusXM, Yahoo, and beyond

 

Team growth

  • Led and quickly grown existing teams, for both startups and big corporations
  • People-focused leadership: Led and role modeled career growth, DE&I, and design representation for my orgs; launched mentorship pairing and design upskilling programs
  • Personally recruited over 50 people I’ve managed throughout my career, pulling from my deep network of colleagues, professional connections, and the 130k+ member design communities I’ve built

 

Collaboration

  • Worked collaboratively with cross functional peers and executives, in an inclusive and strategic way most of them never did with design before

 

Vision and execution

  • Proactively driving design and research’s vision and roadmap, and representing it at the executive and company level
  • Ensuring my orgs are well equipped to drive and execute where they need to, and focused on the right things
  • Equally experienced at launching new products (building products from 0 to 1), and iterating and scaling established products

 

Track record of business results

  • Achieved company-changing business, revenue, and user growth while managing the design for multiple products
  • Designed for 1b users
  • Generated $billions in revenue
  • Launched and iterated on many household name tech products

Product Ownership

Product Ownership

Product Ownership

Product Ownership

Product Ownership

The trio of design, product management, and engineering should have shared ownership over what gets built. Regardless of who comes up with the winning idea, all three parts of the trio need to be involved starting at the concept phase, through product release.

Out with the old school method where ownership gets passed from department to department, and in with an inclusive product development process that has fewer blind spots and that has shared accountability for both ups and downs. This partnership model enables success for people, partners, projects, and processes.

The trio of design, product management, and engineering should have shared ownership over what gets built. Regardless of who comes up with the winning idea, all three parts of the trio need to be involved starting at the concept phase, through product release.

Out with the old school method where ownership gets passed from department to department, and in with an inclusive product development process that has fewer blind spots and that has shared accountability for both ups and downs. This partnership model enables success for people, partners, projects, and processes.

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Growing Leaders

Growing Leaders

Growing Leaders

Growing Leaders

Growing Leaders

Developing leaders who can lead, set a vision, and grow other high performing leaders is required for scaling a design team and an organization at large. This requires awareness of one's own strengths, and making room for others to lead.

Developing leaders who can lead, set a vision, and grow other high performing leaders is required for scaling a design team and an organization at large. This requires awareness of one's own strengths, and making room for others to lead.

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