Steven White Email & Phone Number

Colorado Springs, Co, Us

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Design Sprint Facilitation. Leads development and execution of United States Special Operations Command’s (USSOCOM) Creative Problem Solving Initiative for all special operations forces. Completed 40+ design sprint engagements and trained over 1,500 members of US special forces (Navy SEALS, Delta Force, Marine Raiders, Airforce Special Operations) as well as Allied forces in Jordan, Uzbekistan and Lithuania. Addressed 100+ different problem sets to include AI, Recruiting, Intelligence, Combat Operations, and Peak Performance. Top innovations selected by command to be adopted in Future Operating Concepts. Design Faculty Team attained Highest Rated Satisfaction scores from leadership and students. • Design Learning and Development. Certified Lead Instructor, LUMA Institute; course design and instruction for corporate and government organizations including Fannie Mae, Nike, Google, and U.S Navy. Led over 175 Human Centered Design Practitioner and Facilitator workshops. Trained over 3,500 corporate and government executives with a World Class Net Promoter score. Developed original Graduate Level Design Courses for Institute of Design @ Illinois Tech - Metacognition for Design Leaders and Design for Advanced Civilizations focused on showing future leaders how to apply design in a chaotic world.• Change Management. Innovation Advisor to the global executive team of private equity backed IT services company Ensono (Charlesbank/MC Partners), helped drive 100%+ revenue growth to $600 million over two years. Company sold to KKR.

• Innovative Product and Experience Design. Founder of PriusMed, a biomedical technology company focused on increasing collaboration between physicians, EMTs and other stakeholders throughout the hospital care chain. PriusMED’s distributed telemedicine platform (US Patent 10430552), broadcasts and records the streaming of patient vitals alongside multiparticipant 2-way audio-video teleconferencing. This breakthrough technology decreases the critical time gap from discovery to diagnosis, potentially saving millions of lives that would normally fail “on the way’ to the hospital. Led UX design and development, value proposition, messaging, thought leadership and strategic partnerships.

Strategic visionary and change agent driving transformative growth at Jobba Trade Technologies, a leading construction/roofing SaaS company. Orchestrated comprehensive branding, product development and technology roadmaps, securing $18M in investment across two successful funding rounds. Spearheaded a major product launch, fueling 26% annual PLG (product-led growth). • Created a compelling user story “The Jobba Story” which focused on the key user and highlighted pain points, desired state and the Jobba value proposition. This became the foundational messaging used for all marketing and sales efforts.• Developed comprehensive strategic growth plan for nation’s leading roofing software technology company which included a major product launch resulting in 26% annual revenue growth exceeding expectations.• Developed thought leadership platform that galvanized industry to bring together major manufacturers, distributors and other ecosystem players with a goal of increased efficiency and revenue growth. Appointed Technology Team Leader of RT3 Roofing Industry Think Tank.• Managed marketing and business development team of 6 people.

Leader of brand management team, reporting to the CMO, responsible for helping to drive five consecutive years of above-industry revenue growth and profitability for $1.5B identity risk management business spanning financial services, retail, government, and health care. Recognized with Growth Trailblazer Award.• Led development of a Brand and Customer Experience Refresh to raise awareness and preference for LexisNexis Risk Solutions. Led experience design, branding strategy, and marketing integrations/transitions for all acquisitions and divestitures (NA/Europe/Asia) including $4.7 billion acquisition of ChoicePoint (60+ brands). Completed 12 acquired brand integrations in three years. Work significantly contributed to increased awareness (+17%), consideration (+43%), and preference (+75%) for LexisNexis against competitors; increased visibility in the media (+30%) and achieved highest NPS scores across all Reed Elsevier companies. • Designed and implemented a new product naming strategy to bring more clarity to the sales process and customer experience. Streamlined and automated the naming development and approval workflow to make the process more efficient for all constituents. The new strategy and process has impacted over 50 new product launches in a 2-year period. Decreased time to market by 50% and increased brand impact scores 100x two years in a row.• Developed and published core product value propositions and enhanced the client experience. Developed content-rich digital channels, thought leadership, SEO/SEM/PPC, social media and proprietary communities to expand the value of our core products. Product extensions increased loyalty in customer segment with highest attrition, lowering likelihood to leave by 50%.

Master’S Degree, Design/Innovation Methods

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Marketing