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Interdisciplinary professional working at the nexus of urban design, planning, and behavioral psychology. Passionate about making refuge, collective agency, and meaningful public life easily accessible in cities. A former product designer with nearly 10 years of experience across UX, strategy, communication, and community building. Always open to interesting freelance work.
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Bio:
A high-honors undergraduate with a specialization in political psychology-turned experience design, I am systems thinker passionate about scalable problem solving. Committed to making the world easier to live in, I've honed in on a strong sense of empathy throughout my life—from stage acting and community management to UX, planning, and spatial design—to work towards this goal one project at a time.
I completed my Masters to more capably address societal and ecological challenges through public realm projects focused on social infrastructure, climate adaptation, and knowledge sharing. I am eager to work across disciplines to deprogram people by expanding access to restorative, lively, ecologically vibrant places.
Learn more at wallacemaxwellcotton.com. There’s a lot to do, let’s get to it. 🚀 
An innovation catalyst and strategic commercialization leader at the intersection of business, data, tech and health. Molded by 13+ years of global consulting experience and 9+ years of people and team leadership. Driven by intellectual curiosity and creative problem solving. Passionate about social missions and using expertise in strategic ventures, client management, and leadership to drive distinctive value:
Global expert in digital and population health solutions and products
Expert in integrated analytics leading cross-functional technical and non-technical teams and products
Consults as a business strategy and product expert, to digital health start-ups, healthcare companies, health focused VCs, and population health nonprofits
Consults to US and multinational companies on human capital and organizational improvement projects across strategy, analytics, and vendor selections
Leads cross functional strategic internal initiatives including strategic partnerships, project-based ventures, and innovation sprints planning and execution
Work Motivators:
Solving meaningful problems
Addressing multicultural and global intricacies
Collaborating with diverse talent
Ongoing learning and growth
Supporting an empathetic work culture 
I am best known for operationalizing innovation - taking big, bold ideas and turning them into reality. My work doing this spans the corporate, start-up and non-profit worlds and the marketing, partnerships, product and business development functions. I have been the client and I have been in client service. My track record includes bringing countless first-of-their kind initiatives to market, among them:
* Face-to-face and tradeshow sales and distribution channels for American Express’ Small Business Group
* A prototype retail experience store for Comcast
* AT&T’s Executive Briefing Center
* Multiple digital products for Hudson Yards, the largest private real estate development in U.S. history.
* A cryptocurrency cold storage digital wallet
Core to my track record of achieving ambitious outcomes is my relationship skills. My 20+ year career has been defined by driving new products, programs and partnerships through strong relationships. These relationships have been within core teams, across cross-functional teams, across agency teams and amongst and between Fortune 100 corporations, start-ups, foundations and nonprofits. I excel at building and leading high-performing teams around a unified vision and executing against it.
I spent 13 years in the small business group at American Express working across all facets of the customer lifecycle. I built out new sales and distribution channels, transformed digital assets into revenue-generating platforms and forged large-scale partnerships with global corporations including FedEx, Marriott and Hertz and NY-based start-ups.
Following American Express, I led the external partnerships teams at two NY-based, fast-growing start-ups: a smart cities technology company that uses digital technology to transform the physical world (Intersection; the company behind LinkNYC) and a tech-enabled social impact company (Catchafire).
I am currently the Chief Transformation Officer for CompoSecure, a leader in metal payment cards, security and authentication solutions. My team, which includes Human Resources and Corporate Communications, is focused on enhancing organizational effectiveness, driving business growth outcomes and cultivating a high performance and high engagement company culture.
My greatest attributes are my energy, positive attitude, high emotional intelligence and well-honed communication skills. Colleagues and partners describe me as earnest, passionate, smart, thoughtful, innovative, caring, honest and sincere.
I look forward to being in touch with you. 
