I facilitate group learning and design strategy workshops.
As a social learning specialist, I work with individuals and organizations improve the quality of their everyday, human-to-human interaction. My approach to facilitated conversations helps people extract practical wisdom and lessons learned from their everyday work experiences.
Working with design teams, I help stakeholders define what matters, what they want to communicate and how to move forward. My expertise includes projects for education, libraries, health care and commercial sector design clients worldwide.
Born in Detroit and raised in Ann Arbor, I graduated from the University of Michigan, College of Architecture and Design with a B.Sc. Design. After practicing as a designer for many years, I went back to school to study organizational development and adult learning principles.
Now living in Toronto, I’m engaged in ongoing research regarding enhanced consulting relationships, workplace learning and design thinking.
In my spare time, I advocate for places that improve our state of mind and make us feel better. My video, “Diagnose Your Habitat” was screened at urban film festivals in Toronto and Los Angeles.
Over 50K people have viewed my “Biology of Business” slides, which summarize natural (complex adaptive) systems as they relate to business.
In 2012 I wrote a poem about Detroit that was the basis for a co-written song “What I See in the D.”
At the 2016 Ontario Association of Architects Conference and IIDEX:
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