Perspective
Recognition, talks, writing, and the work shaping how I think about design leadership and AI.
Design leadership at the VP level is as much about public thinking as it is about shipped product. This page is the slow accumulation of where the work has been recognized, where I've spoken, what I've published, and the writers and thinkers shaping the questions I'm asking right now.
Recognition
Awards & Press
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#1 — Visa Global Employee Intranet
First place in the Design category, with honorable mentions in Intranet Usability. Industry validation that an employee-first approach — pushing back on stakeholder-driven feature requests in favor of research findings — produced the right result. Read the case study →
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Speaking
Talks & Panels
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If you'd like to invite me to speak on design leadership, AI in product, or building design organizations — get in touch.
Writing
Essays & Articles
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Currently Reading
What's Shaping My Thinking
The questions I'm working on benefit from voices outside design. The books and writers I keep returning to right now — on AI's effect on knowledge work, on building design organizations, and on operating at the executive level.
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Co-Intelligence — Ethan Mollick
Mollick's working theory of how AI changes knowledge work is the cleanest articulation I've found of what we're actually navigating at Paciolan. Required reading for anyone leading a team that ships AI-touched product.
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Org Design for Design Orgs — Peter Merholz & Kristin Skinner
Still the canonical text on building design organizations. I return to it whenever I'm restructuring a team or naming a new shape for the work.
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Empowered — Marty Cagan
On building product organizations where design enters discovery rather than delivery. The patterns I lean on when partnering with Product and Engineering at the executive level.
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Working Backwards — Colin Bryar & Bill Carr
Amazon's operating mechanisms — six-pagers, working backwards, single-threaded leadership. I borrow more from this than I admit, especially for cross-functional alignment at scale.
Want to Talk?
For VP of Design conversations, speaking invitations, or collaboration on design leadership and AI work.