El is a recognized expert in innovation, moderation and corporate strategy with over 20 years of experience in designing and implementing strategic initiatives worldwide. Duncan is a partner at Treehouse Innovation. He has designed and led engagements with organizations such as DLA Piper, American Express, Sony Playstation, Capgemini and Coca Cola. He teaches the Executive MBA and other corporate training programs at the University of Cambridge and the London Business School. As a dedicated and confident facilitator, he gains great satisfaction when he helps people develop their own creative confidence, collaborate better and find innovative solutions. The main thing I lacked in my formal education was the ability to see the value of mistakes. I went through the education system thinking that success didn`t make a single mistake, and it also bled into my professional life. One of the things that appealed to me in the design industry is that mistakes and failures are considered fundamental elements of risk management and success, and what you really need is the right framework to make sure you make mistakes in the fastest and most cost-effective way (i.e. there is a time and place for mistakes, and there are certainly times, in which mistakes should be avoided!). The moment he really dug in (and it took a long time – and only after talking to a number of design scientists, reading a lot of design books, and learning through practice), everything became easier. Adam previously worked at Ernst & Young Consulting and led numerous innovation projects and design events for all types of organizations. Recent customers include Amazon, NBCUniversal, eBay, Sony PlayStation, DuPont, Microsoft and many more.
Angela is an experienced legal designer with a broad base of experience in design thinking and innovation. As a lawyer by training, Angela is passionate about improving the accessibility of the law. She has supported Magic Circle, Silver Circle and international law firms, alternative legal service providers, in-house legal teams, start-up founders, non-profit/social enterprise organizations, government and intergovernmental agencies in the use of principles, processes and design tools in their legal projects. Angela is also a regular lecturer on legal design as part of oxford`s AI4Law programme. Angela addresses legal issues and identifies business risks by working with clients to develop solutions to mitigate them. She understands the importance of making legal outcomes strategic, relevant and accessible to all teams in fast-moving organizations to ensure that risks are effectively managed and that underlying business objectives are achieved. She is also excellent in day-to-day legal support, from creating legal policies, processes and templates to contract management, manuals and toolkits. When she`s not designing or moderating, she`s hiking a mountain somewhere in Cape Town. Marie is a design thinker with a passion for creative innovation, the design process, and environmentally-focused educational design. She firmly believes that design can help navigate complex systems and provide an agile and sustainable lifestyle for people.
As an experienced designer at TreeHouse Innovation, she teaches and leads Design Thinking workshops to help our clients solve problems and develop their own internal innovation cultures. You will also find that it supports project teams through ethnographic research, framework and tool development, and project management. He is a frequent lecturer in Design Thinking at the University of Cambridge`s Executive Education and Leadership Development programs. In addition, he has developed and led apprenticeship and leadership programs with leading business schools such as Imperial College London, Judge Business School, Cambridge, Rice University, Georgia Tech and others. Now, when I look at the types of subjects I enjoyed in school, I see that I`ve always enjoyed doing a lot of different things – I`ve loved the creativity and freedom that art and design allow, but I`ve also enjoyed the logical nature of mathematics. I have always chosen human-centered history classes, and my favorite part of English literature has been understanding the cultural context of the author and how the context of a reader affects their interpretation of the text. My degree showed me how a multidisciplinary mindset gives you a toolbox with many different ways to understand your context, and there`s no one „right“ way to perceive or solve a problem. For example, we use my computer science, data analytics, and econometrics skills, as well as my formal knowledge of logic and behavioral economics in projects – all of which I first learned in college and never thought I`d use as part of a „design“ consulting.
With that in mind, I think my formal education has shown me the value of choosing from many different disciplines, never being afraid to do something different, and constantly learning from other industries. Kirsty is a key member of the Treehouse Innovation team and brings a strong background in digital user experience, social media strategy and large-scale event design. She is passionate about helping groups unleash and unleash their creative potential. Angela is a certified UX and graphic designer and PRINCE2 project manager. In her spare time, she enjoys moderating and accompanying sprints with social enterprises, designers and developers for social welfare projects. She is a partner at Treehouse Innovation. Its role is to help organizations create a culture of innovation. She has designed and led engagements with global clients such as Orange Business Services, eBay, SKY, DLA Piper and Generali. Their engagements include conducting innovation sprints, designing co-creation events, and delivering design thinking masterclasses for organizations looking to embrace a culture of innovation. Over the past 15 years, Jarvis has worked primarily in web design/development, branding and UX/UI design for a wide range of businesses, large and small, across a wide range of industries in the UK, Europe and the Middle East.
Tinqer is an independent strategic design consulting firm that aims to bring good design to all industries so that we can all work together to build a better society and world where people empathize with each other and things work. Teodora is a graphic designer/UI designer specializing in branding and front-end development. Over the past decade, she has worked on a variety of projects for a number of marketing and advertising companies. Nathan is a partner at Treehouse Innovation, where he helps companies build cultures of innovation. In his previous life, he founded and led four new companies within the world-renowned design and innovation company IDEO, including co-founding OpenIDEO.com a global platform with more than 300,000 innovators. Brooke is a consultant and facilitator at Treehouse Innovation, working on projects and leading and supporting design thinking workshops. She is also part of the Innovation Mindsets team and helps design and develop our assessment tools. He is a BAFTA award-winning producer with credits for hit titles such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Harry Potter and the BBC`s acclaimed doctor who games. Today, Brian uses this design and production experience to help people and teams across all industries work more creatively in their work and apply design tools to create better solutions and user experiences. He has led workshops with hundreds of participants and led organizational design programs that have helped change innovation strategy for traditional organizations like Freudenberg and Generali, and has designed a startup incubator for Europe called HackFWD. He has worked with clients such as HP, IKEA, T-Mobile, VISA, Oxfam, SKY to help them innovate. Teodora, a lover of all things design, is of course committed to Design Thinking and integrates the process into her workflow as a daily problem-solving solution.
