Teaching
My pedagogical approach focuses on the integration of business and design, in the domains of behavioral economics, design leadership, and design management.
Fall 2025
Design Leadership Seminar
Graduate seminar examining foundational and contemporary theories of leadership with a focus on design contexts. Covered attributes of effective design leaders, historical and evolving models of leadership, and critical reflections on leadership challenges in the 21st century.
Design Management Seminar
Graduate-level course exploring business processes and strategic management through the lens of design practice. Topics include managing people, projects, resources, and relationships across various organizational structures. Students developed comprehensive business plans, applying management theories and tools to real-world design contexts.
Design Methods for Framing
Designed and taught a course focused on developing students’ ability to critically frame complex, ambiguous problems through iterative research, reflection, and systems thinking. Guided students in constructing actionable opportunity statements by synthesizing diverse perspectives, uncovering assumptions, and applying framing strategies across domains such as public policy, business, and social innovation.
Spring 2025
Design Methods for Ideating
Workshop exploring diverse thinking styles, ideation approaches from multiple disciplines, and frameworks for reframing problems and sparking creativity. Emphasized practical application through research planning, concept testing, and translating ideas into design requirements.
Design Methods for Prototyping
Workshop focused on diverse prototyping methodologies and their application across the design process. Emphasized critical reflection, empirical user testing, and the translation of research insights into actionable design concepts.
Fall 2024
Wicked Problems & Sensemaking
Design Methods for Framing Problems
Design Leadership Seminar
Design Management Seminar