Chris Barnes Email & Phone Number

Olympia, Wa, Us

Strategic consulting focused on digital experience transformation (XT). Lead XT design teams, working closely with client partners, subject matter experts, and people who use clients’ software to generate shared understand of challenges and opportunities, develop guiding principles and recommendations, ideate exciting future-state visions, and create compelling visual design and narratives for transformative improvement.

Olympia, Washington

Emphatic Communications is a design and communications consultancy for healthcare and life science companies. Our clients develop ideas and products that improve care — we help them make those innovations easy for people to understand and use. We work with clients to envision and create marketing, educational, scientific, and clinical communications that deliver real value to people, whether they are patients, clinicians, payers, employees, or investors.Hallmarks of our work: clear, meaningful, easy to use.

Olympia, Washington, United States

Concentrix Catalyst is the experience design and engineering team of Concentrix. Responsible for leading design teams through successful execution of client-facing and internal projects. Capability lead for omnichannel experience design guild, planned and led internal workshops on ethics and research in healthcare settings.

Greater Seattle Area

Helped build this Meetup group to 1900+ members over 5 years, attracting nearly 50 leading voices in healthcare and design to share expertise in 28 successful events — workshops, talks, panels, socials — hosted by organizations like Providence, Artefact, Kaiser Permanente, HBO, Accolade, Sage Bionetworks, and Microsoft. I share responsibility for vision and strategy, event planning, community outreach, and communications, and have contributed to events as a speaker, moderator, and host.

Olympia, Wa & Palo Alto, Ca

Responsible for business operations, technical and aesthetic dimensions of user experience, brand management and communications.Business Arts entered the software market with a launch of its premier product in June 2005 at the annual ASTD International Conference and Exhibition. Two new products were added in Summer 2006 to create a unique Excel-based suite of project planning tools: ProjectSheet®, TaskSheet®, and TopSheet®. Our products received the highest rating for ease of use and performance in a March 2007 review from PM Network, the professional magazine of the Project Management Institute.

Santa Barbara, Ca & Olympia, Wa

A small but mighty design and communications consultancy for life science and healthcare companies. (Rebranded as Emphatic Communications in 2008.)