Cultural anthropology developed a uniquely messy, awkward and powerful methodology for learning about human meaning making: participant observation.
I use this methodology to learn how people make meaning in, and of, their work worlds, what difficulties and challenges they face, and what their needs are. I use design thinking and human centered design methods to ask and answer how we might solve problems by creating solutions that meet users' needs. 
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I'm skilled and experienced in:

• discerning the needs, wants, fears and motivations of people at work, how they think about the organization they work in and their relationship to it, and what is meaningful to them at work. 
• designing experiences that give people the supports they need to establish and sustain new ways of working and learning 
• designing ways for people to come together virtually to identify and solve problems, share and learn from each others' experiences, create new relationships and perspectives, and through collaboration, strengthen their collective intelligence 
• building digital collaboration environments that feel useful and usable, that create trust, and that foster creativity and risk taking

Developing in and at work
I'm fascinated by how people learn from each other: the kinds of social connections and networks they create, the kinds of learning that happens, why some networks catch on and endure, and others don't. Here's some of the social learning work I've done:

• Building a social learning practice: I designed tools to help x-functional project team leaders coordinate and collaborate  before, during and after their projects.   
• Creating a social learning function: I helped design and stand up a territory-wide knowledge management organization, and served as its first operations leader.​​ ​

Designing and Teaching experiences

• The first formal learning programs I designed were university seminars: graduate level Ethnographic Methods, and an undergraduate applied fieldwork.
• I designed and taught upper level English language classes for philology students at Vilnius University. I designed and taught a graduate level Introduction to Global Histories seminar at the Draper Program in Humanities and Social Thought at NYU.  
• In a business context, I have worked with subject matter experts to design face to face, virtual, and social learning programs for corporate learning programs, focusing on leadership, management and communication skills. I've also designed 'learning to learn' programs, and I often teach/facilitate live and virtual programs.