“Katrina is a true design leader. We worked closely together growing a portfolio of products and design services with some of the world's largest energy customers. Katrina has the ability to simplify often complex problems and systems 'in real time' with cross-functional teams and clients, relying on her expertise in facilitation. Katrina was a crucial part of our business, as she helped establish a design and research-focused approach to customer engagements.”
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I am a Global Product & Design executive who leads diverse, high-performing teams on…
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I have a few spots left in my Intro to Design Sprints training that I am offering on August 7th from 3pm to 6pm in San Francisco. This training is…
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Pervasive Excellence Across IBM: Three Ways We Can Make It Happen
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Author, 'Maxed Out'
Seal Press/The Perseus Books Group
See publicationMy first book, 'Maxed Out: American Moms on the Brink' was published in September 2013 with Seal Press/The Perseus Books Group. The book is a memoir about my own experience "maxing out" as a full-time working mom when my children were very little. It weaves in research about the dysfunction between our work and home lives, and offers a vision for a happier, healthier way to work and live.
The book has been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times - Motherlode, MSNBC's The…My first book, 'Maxed Out: American Moms on the Brink' was published in September 2013 with Seal Press/The Perseus Books Group. The book is a memoir about my own experience "maxing out" as a full-time working mom when my children were very little. It weaves in research about the dysfunction between our work and home lives, and offers a vision for a happier, healthier way to work and live.
The book has been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times - Motherlode, MSNBC's The Cycle, TODAY.com, CSPAN BookTV, and many other magazines, newspapers, and radio shows in the U.S., Canada, the U.K, Australia, Ireland, Sweden, Poland, and Italy. Maxed Out was selected by Parade.com as an August Pick for Parents, by Barnes & Noble as a Modern Mom Must-Read, and by Parents.com as a Must Read for Moms. In June 2014 Maxed Out won a Foreword Book of the Year "IndieFab" award. -
Do You Know Who Your Users Are? The Role of Research in Redesigning sfmoma.org
Archives & Museum Informatics
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My writing has been published in many newspapers, magazines, and blogs including The New York
Times (Motherlode), The Daily Beast, TIME.com, Business Insider, MarketWatch, The Honolulu
Advertiser, HONOLULU Magazine, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
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