I ♥ complexity and bring new ideas to life. My purpose is to support teams, organizations, and people at the forefront of innovation and most recently this has been addressing the root causes of biodiversity collapse, tipping points, and a changing climate. Accomplished product design, collaboration expert, and engineering leader with experience in Silicon Valley, Europe, Israel, and Asia contributing to the foundational success of 5 startups. At VMware, R&D Advanced User Experience I founded the prototyping practice to envision nextgen datacenter management challenges — e.g. order of magnitude jumps in virtual objects. My gifts at scaling and accelerating early stage innovation teams and ideas foster highly collaborative cultures founded on engineering excellence, respect, safety, transparency, empathy, and gratitude. Techstars + Nature Conservancy Sustainability accelerator alum. Remote facilitation and visual co-creation expert. Founder of the NatureTechCollective.org and Betterworlds.com Specialties: strategic leadership, multi-disciplinary facilitation, remote & hybrid events, business development modeling, integrating user centered design with agile engineering, software and systems architecture, creating breakthrough products and services, service design, lean and leanux, JTBD, blockchain, decentralization, inclusion, realization of business strategy and customer objectives, distributed teams, public-private partnerships, non-profits, government sector, international and intergovernmental organizations. Excellent interpersonal skills.