— SPEAKING & RECOGNITION
On stages.
On panels.
On juries.
25 years of design leadership, 300+ mentees across 32 countries, and a jury seat at three major awards — I like talking about what’s next.
— WATCH
Me on a stage.
Who are YOU in your design career?
Adplist Be More Festival
Building Trust in UX
ProApp Learn Design
What’s Ahead for AI Research
NetGuru
— TALK TOPICS
What I’ll happily
talk about for an hour.
Why AI design is mostly a trust problem, not a UI problem
What enterprise teams actually get wrong when they ship AI features. Lessons from financial services, enterprise platforms, and the Fortune 50.
The teaching hospital model: how to build design teams that compound
Everyone on the team has a path. No one is the smartest person on every topic. A practical framework for building design organizations that attract and retain senior talent.
Design is not decorative. It’s directional.
How to move design from pixel-polishing to business-shaping. Stories from Amex, BNY Mellon, IBM, and Saks on translating brand into product KPIs at Fortune 500 scale.
Surviving every technology cycle: 25 years of new tech, same principles
Crypto, NFTs, AR/VR, and now AI. The UI changes, the user doesn’t. A long view from someone who’s designed through every hype cycle since 2000.
Panel & juror conversations
As a Webby, PHNX, and Shorty Awards juror, I bring a framework for evaluating work that goes beyond craft — what makes design actually move the business.
— JURY & RECOGNITION
Trusted to judge
the work itself.
Jurors are selected because the industry considers them qualified to evaluate the best work in the world. Three programs have done that.
The Webby Awards
Evaluating global digital work across product design, interactive experiences, and brand innovation. Six consecutive years of jury service.
PHNX Awards
Global juror evaluating integrated creative campaigns across digital, experiential, and brand systems. Multinational submissions.
Shorty Awards
Evaluating brand and social-first campaigns across global agencies and emerging digital platforms. Culture, technology, storytelling.
Got a stage
to fill?
Conference, panel, podcast, internal all-hands, awards jury — reach out with what you have in mind and I’ll tell you honestly if I’m the right fit.