Collaborative Facilitation
Facilitation is one of the ways I design.
Throughout my career, from YouTube and Google to MasterClass and now Learning Commons, I've gravitated toward zero-to-one work: new products, emerging technologies, ambitious collaborations, and problems that don't yet have obvious solutions.
Today I'm Head of Co-building and Collaboration at Learning Commons, where I help shape the future of AI in K–12 education. I have the privilege of working across an unusually broad ecosystem, bringing together educators, researchers, nonprofits, funders, and technology companies to design AI that is useful, trustworthy, and grounded in real classroom needs. What excites me most is the opportunity to create systemic change by helping diverse communities build toward a shared future.
Areas of Expertise
My work sits at the intersection of product design, facilitation, systems thinking, and emerging technology.
Zero-to-one product strategy
Design sprints
Future visioning and roadmap development
Cross-functional alignment
Systems mapping and ecosystem design
Ideation sessions
Stakeholder co-design
Academic convening
Community-building workshops
Conference ice-breakers and interactive sessions
The most complex product challenges aren't solved by a single discipline—they require people with different expertise, incentives, and perspectives to align around a shared vision. That's where facilitation comes in. I design and lead collaborative workshops that help teams navigate ambiguity, surface better ideas, and move confidently from exploration to action. Whether it's a 30-minute ideation session, a strategy workshop, an executive offsite, or a multi-day design sprint, my goal is the same: create the conditions for meaningful collaboration and better decision-making.
My background spans product design, systems thinking, developer platforms, AI, education, and creative practice, and I'm most energized by zero-to-one, future-facing work. Since my early days as a design consultant—and now as an in-house design leader—I've looked for opportunities to democratize the creative process through design thinking, helping diverse teams tackle complex challenges and build solutions together. To deepen my facilitation practice, I became a certified LUMA Institute facilitator and am known to quote Priya Parker’s Art of Gathering more than I like to admit.
Design sprints remain one of my favorite tools when the challenge and timeline calls for them. I helped document Google's six-phase framework in the Google Design Sprint Kit, but I don't treat it as a rigid five-day process. Instead, I adapt each sprint to the needs of the team, often achieving the same collaborative rigor and momentum in just two or three days. My approach emphasizes broad participation, rapid learning, and clear decision-making, helping teams build alignment without falling into design-by-committee or endless rounds of stakeholder feedback.
Across startups, large technology companies, nonprofits, and education, I've helped founders, executives, engineers, designers, educators, researchers, and cross-functional teams tackle problems that no single discipline can solve alone.
Leading the icebreaker at the 2018 Sprint Conference
