Service Design Book Club with Doug Powell
Doug Powell is our guest speaker for the online book club event in September.
Book: Changemakers
Co-authors: Maria Giudice and Christopher Ireland
Chapter #: 8 - Building Support
Article by Doug: Designer of Change: Doug Powell
Please read/skim the chapter before the event if possible. It is OK if you don't have time to read the chapter.
Join us for an engaging conversation with Doug and fellow service design enthusiasts!
Event details
Date: Thursday, September 19, 2024
Time: 12 pm to 1 pm (Eastern Standard Time) | Time zone converter
Location: Online event
Agenda
Introductions - 5 minutes
Overview of the chapter by Doug - 20 minutes (will be recorded)
Conversations with Doug - 35 minutes
Note: The Zoom link will be shared with participants after registration.
About the guest speaker
Doug Powell is an award-winning designer with more than 30 years of experience in a wide range of design disciplines.
A recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Sam Fox School of Design at Washington University in St. Louis and the 2014 Fellow Award from AIGA Minnesota, Doug is a lecturer, commentator, and thought leader on design issues.
He has presented at a variety of global conferences, forums, and universities including Beirut Design Week in Lebanon, Fortune's Brainstorm Design in Singapore, and Yale School of Management. He was on the jury of the 2018 Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards. Between 2011-2013 Doug served as the national president of AIGA, the professional association for design in the US.
In the past decade Doug has served as Vice President of Design at IBM and Expedia Group, where he oversaw design practices, design systems, designer career and leadership programs, as well as the scaling of cross-functional design thinking practices across the companies.
He is the producer and host of This Is A Prototype: The Design Leadership Podcast, and the lead instructor for the Design Leadership at Scale: Director online course.
About Service Design Book Club
Please read about our first meet-up on Medium, visit our website, and follow us on LinkedIn for information about the upcoming events.
If you have any questions before our meet-up, please feel free to send them to arun.martin@gmail.com.
Code of Conduct
Service Design Book Club is dedicated to providing a harassment-free event experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices.
We do not tolerate harassment of event participants in any form.
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