With a hybrid background of brand and innovation, May is a design leader who builds and leads multidisciplinary teams to design better futures by putting people at the center of change. She rallies changemakers around daring ideas, advancing equity, and helping organizations pragmatically imagine a better way forward through the power of design. See some of my work in the following areas:
A little about me…
Innovation & Design Leader
With a hybrid background in strategy and design, having lived and worked in Hong Kong, Shanghai and New York, May is a thinker and maker who has a knack for wrangling complicated humans to embrace a culture of design and collaboration. May’s the one to call when you need someone to put together a swat team to untangle a complex cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural challenge to create brands, experience, tools that drive change.
Has worked with:
Wyndham Hotels Group, Apple, American Express, Boston Consulting Groups, PepsiCo, Fidelity Labs, General Motors, CVS Health, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Department of Education, NASA, Department of Health and Human Services, Schmidt Futures, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and Sanofi.
Specialties: Ethnographic research, design and innovation strategy, visual storytelling, brand development, creative direction, qualitative research, program management and leadership, concept development, experience prototyping, synthesis, and ideation workshop facilitation
Is an expert in:
Navigating ambiguity to create experience-driven brand experience and innovation
Wants you to know:
Bilingual in Chinese and English
Went to school in a castle in Wales
Happiest surfing in the ocean
Fearless about most things, terrified of pigeons