Stephanie is an expert human-centered designer, strategist, keynote speaker, teacher, and change-maker working to build a better world. Prior to starting Ascendant, Stephanie oversaw a $65M portfolio of innovation programs around the world at Bloomberg Philanthropies, served as the Director of the first design Innovation Lab in the U.S. Federal Government (Lab@OPM), and helped build Booz Allen Hamilton's human-centered design practice.

 

Stephanie has diverse experience building impact through program, service, and UX design-based innovation projects in the public, private, and non-profit sectors, has helped build a culture of innovation in multiple organizations, and led the development and delivery of human-centered design and equity-centered innovation curriculum and training to over 7,500 public sector staff in national and local governments around the world. She also serves as an executive coach to organizational leaders.

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The Value & Impact of Innovation & Design in Government

Take a moment and look around your space, how much of what you see has not been designed? It's very safe to say, even if designed poorly, almost all physical matter around you has been created by design. This is our world. 

We needed a warm place to sleep, so we created beds.  We wanted comfort so we innovated materials to provide warmth, comfort, support. We want our beds to look inviting so we design an array of models. 

Everything around you made by man which you can't live without follows the same pattern.  There exists a need, and that need is met with creative problem solving and design thinking, and often innovation to deliver the best possible solutions to that need, this creates good business too, and serves society. 

The mission of Design in Focus is to demonstrate the value of CID through engaging with those in the field and finding supporting evidence such as statistics and cases.

The vision of Design in Focus is to have a channel for and by CID people to not only engage within their networks, but also to provide valuable info that can help bring their relative stakeholders along on topics related to CID.

The Value & Impact of Innovation & Design in Government

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