I've designed and delivered workshops and presentations for NESTA, Nike, Designers Block, Hyper Island and Sir George Cox, Service Design Fringe, TiLE (Trends in Leisure and entertainment), to name a few.  
​Talks, workshops and training sessions I deliver cover:

Insight:

• The Art of Ethnographic Interviews - How to swiftly build relationships and have conversations that gain the right insights.
• The Art of Observation - Using observation to gain deep, behavioural insights of people and their lives​.
• User research 101 -  Tools and techniques to getting the consumer insights you need to inform design and communications.
• User research translation - Transforming information into actionable insights.

Innovation:

• The Art of Co-creation - How to craft a Co-Creation culture with clients, colleagues and communities.
• Front-end innovation  - How to spot commercial opportunities within a changing business landscape and evolving consumer needs​.
• Prototyping - Designing prototypes to help you make the right decisions about future design and innovation activities .

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Workplace culture and personal development:

• Implementing Agile - Personal learnings about what works well and what doesn't. 
• Academe: learning for life - how to design your own personal 12 month learning journey / curriculum for under £1,000.

Art and creativity:

• Maintaining and managing creativity - Personal reflections and ideas about how to manage this fragile skill-set / mindset.
• Creativity in the workplace - Ideas, not art: encouraging people to use drawing to ideate, distil thinking and communicate concepts.
• Art vs. Design - Personal reflections from exploring the world of art and over15 years experience in the design industry.
• Fitting the mould? - Personal reflections on creating impact in the workplace, whilst bringing something unique or being different.
• Provocateurs in the boardroom - Opinion piece on how artists can support and challenge leaders in the C-suite to adapt their businesses to stay ahead of the curve. 
• Art experiences - introducing people into the world of an artist. 

The story behind the profile:
 In this project we were designing an interface for a new technology for monitoring sewers. A big part of the workshop was finding ways to visualise the vast amounts of data the system would produce, so it could be easily understood and used.