Speaking

How do you build an experience-led innovation culture?

With a reputation as a vibrant, engaging speaker, Rachel has delivered keynotes, fireside chats, panels across the globe, and compelling virtual talks that traverse industries.


Design Leadership
at Scale

How to champion the change required to build a thriving design culture, drive business impact, and embed the capabilities needed to shape the future of business.

The interface of the future is not chat. It's multimodal and ubiquitous. The future is not pages and pages of UI flows, or detecting whether you're on desktop or mobile. Our future interfaces will be intelligent, contextual, and ephemeral.

Businesses of the future need leaders with a different skill set than what we’ve looked for in the past. The combination of human-centered design, product strategy, technical, and business acumen, coupled with a designer’s mindset and behaviors, creates a culture of collaboration, critique, innovation, and progress.

Recent Talks

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Creativity and AI in Software: PayPal's Journey

Figma Config Conference, Leadership Collective – June 2024

Design Leadership at Scale – Driving Innovation

Future London Academy – Jan 2024

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The Way We Work Has Evolved, Should Your Team?

Figma Config Conference, Executive Track – June 2023

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Redesigning Industries

Figma Config Conference, Media + Analyst Session – June 2023

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Design Leadership at Scale

Future London Academy – January 2023

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Design Leadership To Support Organizational Transformation

Finding Our Way podcast, Episode 34 – October 2022

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Designing A New Era of Experiences

Reuters CX Conference – May 2022

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Relentless Innovation

EXPLORE 22 Conference – May 2022

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Leading Innovation:
Design As Competitive Advantage

How Design Live, Creative Leadership – May 2021

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The Secret To Transformational CX Design:
Your Org Chart

Forrester What It Means podcast – November 2019

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Leading Innovation

CXSF – October 2019

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The New American Dream:
The Future of Finance

Modernist Studio – July 2019

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Strategy Roundtable:
How Financial Institutions Can Transform
CX Through Deep Customer Insights

Finovate – May 2019

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Design Innovation in Financial Services

InVision – January 2019

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Design as Competitive Advantage 

Chief Experience Officer Exchange – July 2018

Archive

Design Leadership at Scale – Future London Academy, January 2023

Design Leadership To Support Organizational Transformation – Finding Our Way podcast, Episode 34, October 2022

Designing a New Era of Experiences – Reuters CX Conference, May 2022

Relentless Innovation — EXPLORE 22 Conference, May 2022

Leading Innovation: Design as Competitive Advantage – How Design Live, Creative Leadership, May 2021

The Secret To Transformational CX Design: Your Org Chart – Forrester What it Means podcast, November 2019

Strategy Roundtable: How Financial Institutions Can Transform CX Through Deep Customer Insights – Finovate, May 2019

Design Innovation in Financial Services – InVision, January 2019

Design as Competitive Advantage – Chief Experience Officer Exchange, July 2018

Contact

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