I provide Product Leadership to companies who are interested in building, or growing, a modern products & design practice steeped in Innovation Thinking & Design Thinking.
I enjoy solving product challenges working in a Product Management or Design capacity. Big fan of functional prototypes, wireframes and lo-res mockups. Animation within reason. Moonshots over iteration.
ProjectsMore companies need to focus away from safe & incremental solutions, towards bold & transformative ones
For the past two years i've run the Founder Academy incubator based in Sacramento, CA. During the prior 20 years I have been a founder, advisor, mentor, and angel investor. I've mentored at the business & engineering programs at UC Davis, NYU Stern, and others. As part of my role at Founder Academy, and as an individual founder, I have reviewed, provided feedback on, and built hundreds of decks & business plans. I've given talks to students, scientists, first-time founders, serial entrepreneurs, and Government leaders on business concepts, pending & new legislation, and building entrepreneurial ecosystems.
Business Fundamentals Courses presented by Founder Academy are an hour long, with a mix of hands-on work and lecture. A course includes worksheets, downloadable slide deck, and handouts. We focus on doing, rather than listing, and as such the course is interactive and participatory. I speak just enough to cover the topic at hand, and then allow for serendipity to take hold, so the class can bond / relate to one another.
from 15-min to 1-hour talks prepared on Innovation Thinking, Design Thinking, and Product Development.
Workshops are 1-5 day long events where a team of 1-3 facilitators leads your organization through a program designed to solve a problem and engineer a solution (Design Sprint), determine what you should be buildng (White Space Analysis), or help your team/company learn to think about how to build it better through Innovation Thinking (Intro to Innovation Sprint & Building products that matter).
$500+/instructor
Virtual courses are less
$10,000+/speech
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$1,500+/day
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I'm happy to participate in conversations covering my primary areas if interest, inc. startup competitions, talks to students, etc. provided that the people presenting/attending is made up of a representative sample of humanity, identity, and skills.
If you are having trouble building a diverse and inclusive presenter list for your event, please ask. I'll be happy to provide names and referrals to amazing people at no cost to you. Check out panelist.co, a new tool i'm building to help poeple build inclusive and diverse panels (for free).
My panel/startup event participation fees range from lunch/dinner/coffee to cash, it really just depends on who you are and what you are doing (and how far away it is from Sacramento, CA).
In doubt? Just ask!