About
Background, experience, and interests
Background, experience, and interests
I’m Barb, a strategic design leader who is passionate about leading empowered teams that elevate design. This means I strive to help design teams solve meaningful problems for users, derisk and drive product decisions, and develop desirable and viable products. I also work to create an inclusive environment for designers where they can feel supported, psychologically safe, and enabled to take risks and grow their careers.
This is my family. We love creating, though we tend to use different mediums. I love to paint and draw, my partner loves to cook, and my son loves to build elaborate lego cities. That said, we all enjoy collaborating together to create family masterpieces.
My husband has worked as a teacher, head of school and now runs a reading remediation center. As a couple who leads teams with a strong interest in learning and growth, we bring a growth-mindset as well as a teaching and coaching mentality to everything we do.
My son is four and is my ultimate leadership trainer. He doesn’t take any sh*t and gives straightforward feedback. If I don’t use leadership best practices (eg. set clear expectations, explain the why behind a request, enable autonomy, etc) he lets me know using extreme-radical candor.
When I’m not hanging out with my family you can find me running, drawing, playing the drums or piano, or going on travel adventures.