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
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