Emily Kao Email & Phone Number

I use research to help businesses identify opportunities for impact-driven growth and innovation. • Partnerships: I identify the right people to collaborate with• Storytelling: I make the complex easy to understand• Innovation: I co-create better ways to do somethingLooking to collaborate with small businesses / teams that are also passionate about: sustainability, circularity, climate technology, food & agricultural innovation.

A quarterly gathering of creatives sharing and supporting each other’s personal artistic pursuits! As our tagline goes, Be Fearlessly Imperfect! ✨ 〰️

A sabbatical to "do things I've always wanted to try": • Stretch My Artistic Practice >> Producing a personal documentary short on about meeting my long-deceased maternal grandparents, "Meeting Memories." (ongoing)• Reconnect with My Roots >> Re-learned Mandarin, explored my home country Taiwan as an adult, spent quality time with family• Tend to Neglected Hobby >> Intensively learned Spanish for 5 weeks and immersed in the nature of Costa Rica

Chicago, Il, Us

• Framed challenges and purpose to design research guides and facilitation of stakeholder interviews and immersion workshops, which kept clients consistently engaged and bought-in throughout the project• Synthesized research to develop key insights and opportunity areas for clients to drive innovation and define strategic metrics of success• Clients across industries: Energy, Logistics, Financial Services, Hospitality, Tech.

Usa, Us

Brooklyn, New York , Us

• Established 3 distinct conversational themes, curated and facilitated intimate dialogues between guests in the form of a discreetly guided dining experience• Partnered with small business owners, literary artist, and chef to sponsor and elevate experience. • Received press coverage by No Proscenium• Sold out all ticketed 30 sessions to-date

New York City, Ny, Us

• Designed and produced 71 collateral assets within a week• Marketed digital summit “The State of Equity,” which generated 1639 ticket sales

New York, Us

• Developed creative direction based on client brief, market research, and brand strategy• Designed customer journey and experiential touchpoints• Project highlight: Lego project attendance objective was exceeded by +20%, with 33 additional sessions• Initiated, created, and distributed "Sustainable Productions Guide" to producers across all North American offices• Managed direct communication with account managers, strategists, producers, vendors, and clients• Personal clients included: Clinique, Google, Lego, WPP, WSJ, YouTube

New York, Ny, Us

• Oversaw brand identity and produced design and marketing collateral• Designed and managed client pitch decks. Clients included: Casper, Microsoft, Veuve Clicquot, WeWork• Managed 300+ volunteers for assisting on-site fabrication and production

New York, Ny, Us

• Identified user pain points and improved user flow of the internal web database for Lexus employees• Conceptualized content programming and customer flow with strategists, prototyped and designed extended web functions for Apple’s “Today at Apple” subpage

• Worked on the World Design Capital Taipei Team• Supported international designers in residency with translation, research, and hosting workshops• Planned and conducted documentary interviews of various designers

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa) With Honors, Industrial And Product Design, Concentration In Nature, Culture, Sustainability Studies

Winter Semester Exchange, Industrial And Product Design

Summer Program

High School Degree