Audrey Clarke Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Greater Chicago Area

Studio coach and critique advisor for Design For America. DFA is a program focused on teaching students design thinking and innovation by tackling local social challenges. Lecturer and mentor for Northwestern’s inaugural healthcare hackathon: NU Health Hacks.

Greater Chicago Area

Innovation consultancy dedicated to discover and drive new sources of growth for clients.Provides innovation subject matter expertise to clients—blending design thinking, user experience, and business strategy. This leverages my 15+ years helping organizations conceptualize and develop new businesses, services, products, and/or processes to address some of their most challenging growth problems. Specific role varies by project, ranging from team leader/coach (e.g., design sprint), advisor (e.g. executive consultation), lecturer (e.g., educational seminar), to project manager (e.g., new offering development).

Chicago, Il

Led multi-million dollar engagement to design and develop new business platforms fostering organic growth for Fortune 500 client. This included setting innovation strategy, driving organizational transformation, developing appropriate metrics, as well as generating and advancing new products, services, and businesses. Concurrently collaborated with top management to create and execute internal programs enabling clients to improve their ability to do this work themselves.

Chicago, Il

Managed client relationships and lead multi-disciplinary teams to identify, frame, and solve complex business problems. This required engaging stakeholders and specialists, identifying unique customer and business insights, attentive project thought leadership, and acclimating clients to the discomfort of ambiguity—often present in discovery-based endeavors. Collaborated with Partners to design, sell, and execute client innovation projects.

Chicago, Il

After Monitor acquired Doblin, I was part of the small integration team that worked to ensure the transaction was fruitful. Retaining our talent during a time of significant upheaval was critical to a successful outcome. I elicited colleagues’ concerns, prioritized them, and translated to our new leadership why particular issues were so important to employee retention. Being selective about our battles was important, as was identifying the best ways to start to meld into a single organization, and how to optimally time-stage the required shifts. Ultimately, as a team, we ensured our colleagues and our clients successfully made this transition.

Chicago, Il

Led the business and/or user research work on client cases. This included teaching clients about design thinking and the related methodology, determining the content direction, and overseeing business concept illustration used for concept testing and communications. It also entailed generating insights, developing frameworks, building business models and pricing plans, and presenting to stakeholders.

Chicago, Il

Contributed to the business and/or user research work on client projects. This entailed quickly getting up to speed on the client and their industry, designing and conducting primary and secondary research to gain required insights, vendor selection, executing competitive analysis, identifying ways to tell the story of what we learned, developing the materials to share, and facilitating workshops.

Chicago, Il

Identity 3.0, offered brand consulting services for companies experiencing major transitions. Generated competitive brand analyses and distribution channel research to develop strategic branding and/or new channel recommendations. These recommendations enabled clients to make informed decisions influencing product mix, pricing, and positioning. Assisted Partners with business development efforts.

Chicago, Il

As the producer, my goal wasn’t to just share news, but to craft a show where news was made. Our show worked to inform our listeners about politics, current events, and human interest topics—in a balanced manner. It was the #1 morning show in the nation’s 3rd largest market.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Strategy, Analytical Consulting, And Marketing

Ba, Sociology