Laura Olson Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Trashy upcycles landfill-bound materials to create furniture, outdoor products, and building products.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Learning about human-centered design, research, prototyping, 3D modeling and rendering, sketching, materials and processes.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

(IHS Markit acquired Ipreo)Promoted healthy team building across the companyDeveloped (and continuously improves) a department-agnostic model for teamwork, a questionnaire to assess it, and a complementary toolkit to support it Trained our employees and contractors in the disciplines of great teamworkCoached mostly distributed teams on improving their teamworkChallenged our organization to value trust, purpose, and continuous improvement as we do executionMade Agile and Lean concepts accessible to people unfamiliar with them

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Introduced and facilitated PI planning for a distributed team of skeptical contractors and employees Managed and mentored Scrum Masters, some who were new to the roleImproved teamwork, transparency, predictability in delivery, increased the team's connection to the client's challenges, quality, automated test coverage

Durham, Nc

CSM, Scaled Agile Framework Agilist (SA), trainer for Scaling Agile Collaboration

Helped Princeton University students become leaders in preventing water pollution. A project of NJPIRG and AmeriCorps

Masters, Industrial And Product Design

Activities and Societies: IDSA - Coordinator (2021-2022) and Vice President (2022-2023)

B.A., Political Science, Peace And Conflict Studies

Activities and Societies: Co-Director, Environs Associate Senator, Student Senate / Multicultural Affairs Committee Alternative Spring.

International School For Humanities And Social Sciences