“Designers must think of themselves as thoughtful hosts, anticipating the needs of their guests.”
Product and Design leaders must embrace, listen, and understand people at a deeper level. When we view the world through the eyes of the consumer, we better understand their core needs.
Effective Product Designers and Product Managers strive to develop strong relationships between people and connected ecosystems to create meaningful stories, interactions and memories.
About Me
I am an Emmy® Award winning Executive, Speaker, Innovator, Entrepreneur & Futurist. I am an experienced Product, DesignUX & Creative Executive Leader for world class products, brands and emerging platforms in the media, technology and lifestyle industries.
As an agent of change, I evolve traditional business models into agile, product and design led cultures that drive teams towards innovative transformation and operational excellence at global scale.
In my most recent role, I served as Group Vice President of Global Product & Design for Discovery’s Product, Design UX, and Technology groups. I was responsible for setting the Product & Design Vision, Strategy and Go-to-Market approach through Design Thinking and Customer Centered strategies for OTT, Mobile and Direct to Consumer products, platforms, services and experiences. A key part of my role was defining organizational structures, working processes, methods and frameworks to scale our products globally while hiring, mentoring and growing a team of 300 people around the world.
As head of Product, Design UX, User Research, Product Creative & Copy, Platform Operations and Innovation - my teams were tasked with creating end-to-end holistic customer experiences for the new Discovery+ Streaming Service, and 18 branded network products, platforms and services including TLC, HGTV, Food Network, Discovery Channel and OWN.
Our teams pioneered the exploration of emerging technologies, product experiences, advertising and content models that build deep and lasting relationships with fans and customers around the world.
“Designers exist at the intersection of our physical world and the human spirit to create powerful & meaningful relationships between people and technology.”
A proven global leader who builds synergies between cross functional teams and C-Suite executives through transparency, collaboration and influential leadership.
My teams deliver engaging user journeys that create positive, memorable & lasting consumer relationships within evolving product and technology ecosystems - with precision, agility and constant improvements.
Pushing brands to blur the lines between impossible and possible; I am a west coast architect of digital products, brands and experiential marketing. Throughout my career, I have developed several of the first global digital brand campaigns for 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Nike, Disney Pixar's Toy Story movie,
“Designers must continuously expose themselves to diverse aspects of creativity, art, architecture, music & emotions to develop valuable human connections.”
“When you expose yourself to amazing people, ideas and things... Your work will provide a reciprocal value to others.”
