8works North America team lead; leveraging powerful co-creation methods to design, activate and embed change. We are the "make it happen" team within People & Organizational Performance. We are the People-Led Change experts - we design, activate and embed change with our clients using human-centered design to empower and equip our clients to lead and own their future.

XPLANE is a business design consultancy and I am honored to be the Director of Consulting. My team and I are dedicated to designing and facilitating co-creative workshops and sessions using XPLANE's Gamestorming techniques and visualization practices. I am also the program designer for large-scale communication campaigns that focus on strategy activation, culture change, and process adoption. My most recent projects and programs include: Communications Program Design, Strategic Goals Development and Alignment, Strategy Visualization, Process Improvement, Data Governance Visualization, and Alignment and Senior Buy-in for a package implementation. We go beyond the typical workshop or visual design product. At XPLANE, we focus how we communicate outcomes and concepts to help the larger organization increase awareness, understanding, and adoption.

I have the honor of partnering with amazing Visual and Design Thinkers like XPLANE and Tremendousness.

Developed content for executive level training courses including: managing projects and strategic goals, developing and leading teams, influencing for results, enterprise leadership, and women's leadership.

Facilitated co-createive sessions focused on visualizing marketing materials and communicating internal strategies.

Delivered workshops and collaborative conversations to define the elements of a visual design product. Worked in partnership with clients to define content and with graphic designers to refine visual work products.

Managed DesignSessions for Fortune 500 companies, consulting clients of Cap Gemini. Management encompassed knowledge worker teams, client content, session delivery, and co-writing client outputs and summaries. Topics ranged from package implementation (configuration and customization requirements and implementation), technical systems planning and design, organization re-design, visioning and strategy development.Facilitated DesignSessions for Fortune 500 companies, clients of Cap Gemini. Facilitation included client relationship management, session design, and front of room facilitation. Topics similar to above.

Worked as a multi-disciiplnary knowledge worker, training in DesignShop Methodology and supporting DesignShops at Ernst & Young's Accelerated Solutions Environments (ASE's). Core skill sets included content capture, business writing and session instructions, graphic facilitation, and Process Facilitation (leading teams and managing session logistics).Managed the Chicago ASE facility which included executing contracts, managing budgets and administrative personnel.Managed Knowledge Worker resources and education (an on boarding and hands-on training process) for new employee members of the ASE teams. Responsibilities included conducting educational sessions on the ASE and DesignShop methodologies and developing the content for each session; managing the Knowledge Worker performance management process and 360 review and feedback processes for all contract Knowledge Workers.