Contributors and Partners

Lisa is an applied anthropologist and design researcher with over 25 years' experience in the tech industry, food/beverage, and advertising/media. She is also a disabled veteran, activist, educator, and advocate.

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Chris is a design anthropologist  and people-centered strategist specializing in the workplace and built environments.

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John is based in New Zealand where he heads up multiple consulting efforts in the areas of strategic planning, art, futurism, education, and healthcare.

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Ainslee is an applied anthropologist specializing in overcoming invisible barriers to accessibility.

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Abe is a US Air Force and National Guard Veteran as well as a user experience and human factors researcher.

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 https://www.abogere.com/ 

Bianca is psychosociologist, organisational consultant and coach. She applies psychoanalytic thinking to business challenges. Bianca has several years’ experience in innovation and behavioural change and organisation development across sectors. 

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Racine Brown is a business anthropologist, research strategist, & user experience/customer experience researcher with experience in healthcare and startups.  He is a SME in livelihoods, leadership, and social determinants of health.  Racine has past experience as a health services researcher at the VA and as an officer in the United States Marine Corps.  

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Susan is an applied and business anthropologist working in the energy and sustainability arenas.

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 Adrian is a Founder | Leader| Entrepreneur | Service, Product and User Research Consultancy

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Minh is a non-profit executive, strategist and human rights activist

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Joe is a cultural/applied anthropologist and qualitative research leader with experience in education, healthcare, and mental health.

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Agnes has extensive experiences in quantitative and qualitative UX research, such as remote and in-person usability testing, concept testing, diary studies, ethnographic research, card sorting, and survey analysis. She puts the insights gained from research when developing wireframes, mockups, and interactions. 

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Ellen helps executives and teams have strategic conversations on what is at the core of their company - the customer.

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Cayla conducts freelance UX research and design projects including website audits, project roadmaps, development and facilitation of interviews and surveys, competitive analysis, analytics. 

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Marguerite breaks the barriers of research, knowledge and insight for brands, businesses and agencies to create change. 

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 https://omniologyza.weebly.com/ 

Carmela is a UX researcher with a background in student-centered education. Five years teaching in a Montessori classroom, where innovation, creative problem solving and Design Thinking were fundamental to supporting students' success. 

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Melissa's expertise lies in organizational studies, with a focus on globalization processes, socio-cultural practices, and the future of work.  

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Diana is a tech leader, thinker, tinkerer, strategist, architect, designer, innovator, and researcher.

Venesa is a cultural anthropologist passionate about methods and techniques of research, innovation, and interdisciplinary collaboration. 

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Cristina is the founder of a consultancy that guides organizations to realign their people strategies to their corporate strategy, develop data-driven workplace strategies and behavioral change management plans. She is an advocate for people-centered approaches, leads with empathy, directs with candor and manages with agility.

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www.cristinaherreraconsulting.com

Cheryl is a Collected Artist | Acclaimed Graphic Designer | Corporate Communications & Publications Designer | Design Industry Diversity & Inclusion Speaker Training | Graphic Design Historian | Cheryl D. Miller Collection-Stanford 

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Lily is an environmental psychology consultant, writer, and researcher. As Director of Space Works Consulting she helps designers and organizations make spaces truly work for the people and purposes they serve in workspace, urban, residential, and incarceration environments. 

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 http://www.spaceworksconsulting.co.uk/ 

Markus builds sustainable products and customer experiences by combining the best of social science research, data science tools, an inclusive human-centered innovation process and multiple experiences in a broad variety of product development engagements.  

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Alexis is an award-winning inventor, serial innovator/problem-solver, nationally recognized speaker, 3D/graphics designer, artist, and ardent believer that humans are innately inventive. 

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www.alexis.lewis.inventor.me

Taylor is a researcher, cultural anthropologist and innovator with primary interests in sustainable design, mental health and how history helps us understand current and future societies.  

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Gabrielle believes in the power of understanding problems in order to solve them. At her core, Gabrielle is a data-driven problem-solver looking to optimize and create meaningful experiences for users with an emphasis on providing inclusive and accessible solutions.

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Robert is an established, respected and highly motivated non-profit leader with executive-level experience with prominent philanthropic organizations. Talent for moving organizations forward in successful and sustainable ways. Innate ability to connect with employees and volunteers to sustain motivation and foster engagement in a mission-driven atmosphere.  

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Rita is a doctoral student currently in an Applied Organizational Psychology program. With great enthusiasm to improve both organizations' efficiency and employees' well-being, she is determined to devote her effort into the organizational development area.

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Erica is a researcher whose interests lie in experimental, cultural, and social psychology. With a passion for research design and analysis, she is devoted to using data to understand and predict human behaviour on both micro and macro levels.

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 Justin is a trusted insights professional with 15 years of research and leadership experience. He is a passionate data-driven researcher who uses deep analysis, persuasive writing, and interdisciplinary skills to find new opportunities, discover unexpected connections, and tackle organizational challenges. 

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Jesse is a writer and anthropologist based in northern Italy.  As a qualitative UX researcher, Jesse draws on his training as an anthropologist to study and identify emerging insights, trends, and issues for a diverse range of clients. 

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Jahaan uses ethnography to uncover insights and human truths, weaving them into stories to help bring consumer voices to light in boardrooms.

Her travel experience has enabled Jahaan to really think openly and curiously about the world around her, and conceptualize different markets in a thoughtful, and innovative way.  

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Peter develops smarter, stronger, wiser, active people by powerful coaching and training.
He designs sustainable structures, planes, trains, and automobiles and bring water to the desert.
Peter sells to the rich and give the poor dignity,

and a better life.
He designs better government, better cities, new worlds.

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Keith is a Business and Organizational Anthropologist.  He is skilled in the areas of Project Management, Business Analysis, Systems Analysis, Business Process Improvement, Cost Analysis, Contract Negotiation, Data Analysis, Quantitative and Qualitative Research, and Root Cause Analysis.

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Dr. Behnaz is a social scientist and researcher, a service designer, and a change strategist. She is internationally experienced in successfully developing and implementing organizational change management strategies and other business services based on human-centered design and multidisciplinary pragmatic methods.

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dizengroup.com

Ken is an industry recognized learning leader producing award-winning training solutions using XR, 3D simulation, video and games. Founder of TransHuman Resources, he helps organizations evolve traditional HR practices to incorporate how human, augmented human and non-human counterparts work, live and grow.

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Elizabeth helps organizations change, recommending to clients not to let those cultural issues fester!

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www.culturalkeys.us

 Grounded in ethnography, Indicia Consulting fosters better business outcomes and generates value through adopting a human-centered perspective right from the start. Its areas of expertise include applied research, research design, energy and sustainability, ideation, and project management.  

 http://indiciaconsulting.com/ 

 Bonsai Media is a Seattle-based agency that provides an integrated solution to clients' digital needs. Adopting an iterative approach, Bonsai's services include web and app development, digital marketing, and creative projects.  

 https://bonsaimediagroup.com/ 

 It is through a deep understanding of people (their behaviour, needs, world views) that businesses, brands and agencies are able to connect with their consumers in meaningful ways, and to deliver innovative solutions that make an impact in the world. 

 https://omniologyza.weebly.com/ 

 Eleven Films is a media company from the Pacific Northwest that specializes in content creation, film production, and editing. It focuses on political activism and social change, with documentaries on subjects such as the coronavirus pandemic and domestic politics. 

 https://www.eleven-films.com/ 

 Co-Creation Consulting. Helping organisations Co-Create more effective ways to work and live in the organisation and to engage with their clients.  

 https://www.co-creationconsulting.co.uk/ 

 Space Works Consulting Ltd are an Environmental Psychology consultancy, providing an evidence base and creative solutions to architects, interior designers and sustainability consultants. Working together in an interdisciplinary way, we can help create great spaces that work from a human point of view. 

 http://www.spaceworksconsulting.co.uk/ 

Wheelhouse Education and Learning Limited (WELL) provides high quality learning and development solutions to healthcare organizations across New Zealand and beyond that enhance 

patient outcomes and community services.

https://wheelhouseeducation.net/