Jennifer Thompson Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Driving brand and market development for COLOURizd Ltd. A textile coloration company that radically reduces the environmental impact of textile coloration. Great for the environment, great for the consumer, and great for the bottom line.

Driving innovative sustainable solutions for the textile and apparel industries.

United States

Keynote speaker, writer, coach, and external provocateur who champions Deviant Thinking! I challenge my clients to uncover their “Unfair Competitive Advantage” to allow them to be “Remarkably Different” vs. just “Marginally Better” than the competition. To learn more, check out Jennifer’s website at: www.deviantthinking.com.• Consulting to transform company culture and leadership habits, thereby enabling efficiencies, empowerment, and innovation.• Certified NeuroColor Consultant• Development of unique resumes that show my clients Unfair Competitive Advantage.• Coaching individuals, teams, and companies around purpose centered innovation and creativity.• Speaking and workshops to train creative thinking methods and innovation theory.Maybe your organization had an innovation plan in the past but it just didn’t give you the results you expected.Maybe you tried some design thinking exercises, put in a fun conference room complete with markers, white boards, Koosh balls and a foosball table…but innovation still didn’t come knocking.Or maybe you have been an innovative company that just wants to keep ahead of the competition and be sure that you are doing it the “right way.”Or maybe you have had some level of success with innovation…but don’t know where to go from here (too many choices and too many directions).Whatever the case may be, if you want breakthrough creativity to be so unique you don’t even have competition, pull up a chair and have a Diet Coke. Let’s super charge your thought processIf you want innovation you must find the deviant path. Everyone has their own path to innovation and their own mission. Let us help you find yours.Visit: https://deviantthinking.com

Minneapolis

Creative Team Lead and Textile Manager for Women’s Apparel and Accessories Groups. Responsible for the trend, design, and development of all textile design for Target’s Women’s owned brand product.• Managed textile design, trend, and brand differentiation for over $5 Billion in apparel and accessory sales for Target owned brand product.• Responsible for clear brand messaging to our guest through print and pattern to ensure consistent brand definition and guest segmentation.• Manage concept and textile design creation for Target Limited Time Brands; Liberty of London, Calypso, Missoni, and Lilly Pulitzer.• Vendor management to ensure quality execution of print and pattern.• Collaboratively develop unique trend direction and color palette for each apparel season.• Led recruiting, hiring, training and development of new textile design team members.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Manage Technical Product Development for Women’s clothing . Responsible for the technical execution of owned brand apparel.• Led team who technically created women’s clothing for Target owned branded product.• Managed product life-cycle calendar for RTW Apparel Products.• Managed cross functional team to drive product development.• Managed vendor relationships on technical product development.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Developed the 1st Textile Design Team for Home Product at Target.• Managed textile design for over $3 Billion in home and domestic product development of Target owned brand product.• Led textile product development for all non apparel categories, including: bedding, rugs, towels, curtains, bath, pets, patio, and home decor.

Founder of a successful creative studio specializing in woven textile design, CAD software, and color. • Created trend right product for a wide variety of consumer markets including, home furnishings, top of bed, terry towels, ticking, contract fabrics, throws, carpets, rugs, decorative gift market, recreation, marine, and automotive.• A long term consultant for Datacolor International who drove the launch of the Colorite product worldwide. Responsibilities included setting a brand vision, driving marketing, and training a worldwide sales force.• Long term consultant for NedGraphics. Trained users world-wide, demonstrated systems at trade shows, and consulted on new functionality for CAD software.• Provided technical textile expertise to manufacturing companies.• Collaborated with Staubli Corp , France to design a more flexible Jacquard machine harness that is now used in Jacquard weaving facilities around the globe.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Developed curriculum for electronic Jacquard Weaving atPhiladelphia University.• Taught undergraduates and graduate students Jacquard Weaving.• Focus on design, color, trend, and production.• Taught jacquard lab for woven CAD design, teaching CAD fundamentals and advanced functions.

Spartanburg, Sc

• Managed sales, installation, and training of EAT Jacquard & Dobby software.• Member of industry trade organizations (CITDA).• Presented regularly to Industry Trade organizations domestically and international.• Provided training /customer support for all customers.

Bs, Textile Design

Activities and Societies: Phi Psi

Certificate, Foundations Of Positive Psychology Specialization