I'm a strategic designer based in Paris, interested in how we design the conditions for independent-minded individuals to grow and thrive together. Actively exploring: learning as a social activity, the nature of unfolding conversations, and building better habits for effective collaboration.
Right now, I’m working on:
😎 Client assignments for design and research, and managing my part of the consulting business at AQ.
🧜♀️ Stewarding internal programs at Greaterthan.
🏃♀️ Building Emotions at Work, an online coaching program about emotions at the workplace.
🚴♀️ Planning and training to cycle Vía de la Plata!
When I have news to share, I send Postcards.
And setting off on an occasional athletic adventure:
Murakami Triathlon
Paris Marathon
Covering CrossFit in Asia
Tour du Mont Blanc
Cycling in the Pyrénées
Cycling
Camino del Norte
Cycling
Camino Ingles
L’Eroica
Gaiole in Chianti
My YouTube channel
Writing
I write on and off and it's all scattered across the Internet. Here is a temporary list of links for the evergreen-ish ones:
- [2010] Creating a “Comfortably Bilingual” Talk Event (link)
- [2017] Design sprints in Japan, with Chris Palmieri (link)
- [2018] How design studios can accelerate group learning through self-initiated projects (link)
- [2018] Get the workshop photos you need (link)
- [2019] Tracing the shapes of multiple Design Sprints — a proposed typology (link)
- [2019] Living in the duality of complex projects (link)
- [2020] On mentorship as a vector for growth, written with Alexandre Simon (link)
- [2020] Casting a workshop facilitation team (link)
- [2020] On meetups moving online (link)
- [2020] The role of a technical facilitator (link)
- [2020] What makes a studio practice (link)
- [2020] Field notes from my Liberating Structures practice
- [2022] An essay series with Lisa Woite about designing for the fragile dynamics of sharing (work)space
- [2022] A dozen 300-word essays about thriving at work
Bonus: A tracker for my outings, from museums, concerts, dance performances and more.