I’ll facilitate. You and your team participate. We’ll use the experience and expertise in your team to tackle any people-centered problem they (or you) choose. Teachers: Better parent/teacher conferences? Better PD? Time management? Better PBL projects? Businesses/organizations: More customers? Better customer loyalty? More customer referrals? Stronger team? You’ll walk away with a ton of new ideas and a few you’re ready to try right away. Your team will feel heard, valued, and trusted to solve the problems that are meaningful to them.

25 years of industry experience solving wicked problems

… in science/engineering research & development at Battelle

6 years leading design thinking sessions and developing entrepreneurs

…as Denison University’s Director of the Red Frame Lab

4 years building multi-sector partnerships

… managing the inaugural years of the Ohio STEM Learning Network

10 years building trust across cultures

… in international STEM education design and improvement

3 years helping communities design coherence

… in their STEM Learning Ecosystems

Here’s what all that experience taught me:

I have some expertise, but your team holds the expertise in your line of work. I can help your team tap that experience and chase your aspirations.

 
 
 

Facilitated Design Sessions

I've facilitated hundreds and hundreds of design sessions leading invention ideation sessions with highly technical staff at Battelle, facilitating high school course design with the National Ministry of Education in Egypt, and running community design sessions with various stakeholders in communities across the US and even Kazakhstan. For five years I’ve been the coordinator of Denison University's design thinking and entrepreneurship resource (Red Frame Lab) where I’ve facilitated hundreds of workshops with many different students, staff, and faculty across campus. I'd be glad to help your organization leverage your team to reach your goals. 

DESIGN THINKING is a great process for improving the customer and employee/member experience. This is what I use at Denison University and with local businesses, educators and organizations. For my own professional development, I’ve received training from both Stanford and MIT Sloan on Design Thinking, and I belong to a cohort of design faculty and staff at universities across the country.

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE is an approach that says the worker-bees have a special perspective on your organization’s challenges, and they can have a real impact on solutions if given the chance. This is what I will tap into in your organization as I have done with others.

DESIGN PROCESSES come in many flavors, and I’ve encountered many in my engineering R&D career and woven several into education curricula. These are the tools suitable for linear and non-linear problem-solving.

With many design process tools in the toolbox, we can be sure to use the right one … or even a hybrid of more than one … to meet your need.