Being on a learning journey with others is where I’m happiest. I have over 15 years of experience delivering content online and offline that helps professionals, students and citizens engage with the world as innovators and entrepreneurs. For feedback on my work, see Press.
Teaching
Foundations in Creative Leadership
“Leadership today is not about knowing all the answers, but turning uncertain conditions into growth opportunities.” In this 15-week IDEO U certificate program, I help learners build the creative confidence necessary to lean into and guide others through uncertainty.
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Leading for Creativity
In this 5-week IDEO U course, I help learners shift their organization’s culture by tapping into beliefs and behaviors that support creativity.
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Storytelling for Influence
In this 5-week IDEO U course, I help learners refine their storytelling skills so that they can engage and inspire others to action.
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Cultivating Creative Collaboration
In this 5-week IDEO U course, I help learners harness the power of diverse perspectives and creative thinking to push past the obvious, safe solutions to the truly innovative.
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Insights for Innovation
In this 5-week IDEO U course, I help learners develop empathy for their customers and surface insights for creating products and services customers want and need.
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Introduction to Entrepreneurship
In 2019, I joined the NCSU Department of Management, Innovation & Entrepreneurship as an Adjunct Lecturer in Entrepreneurship. This is an exciting opportunity to teach at a top-ranked, undergraduate entrepreneurship program in the US. As a member of the MIE faculty, I design and teach a 300-level course that leads undergraduates through a series of design challenges focused on value creation within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Startup Garage
While working as staff at Stanford Business School in 2015, I assisted the teaching team of this intensive, hands-on, project-based course for one semester. In this sought-after course, seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneurs show student teams how to design and test new business concepts that address real-world needs using design thinking. My role was to bring a social impact perspective to those teams interested in social innovation. Over the course of the semester, I had the special opportunity of working with MBA Candidates pursuing social entrepreneurship, like Ashley Edwards, who is now Founder & CEO of MindRight (a tech nonprofit empowering youth of color to heal from trauma) and a 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneur.
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