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What will you say about the work you’ve done at the end of your career?

It was really fun getting to know and work with so many amazing people. I hope you enjoy the retrospective. I think the soundtrack really pulls it all together nicely, don’t you?

Where do you go for inspiration?

To a deep place that I can get to either with collaborators, personal introspection, or a stream of sources that I work hard to keep coming. I am a strong believer in personal cultivation. I like to mix more long-term commitment, with more unexpected inputs to see what comes out.

How do you build resilience into your work & company?

By encouraging others to cultivate, grow, and challenge themselves, and reward them when they do so.

What keeps you up at night?

Caffeine.

What gets you up in the morning?

To harvest all the seeds I planted the day before, usually these days sprouting up as email to read.

How is your work cross-cultural?

I’ve lived and worked in many countries: UK, France, and Japan especially. And within the US I’ve been a part of many sub-cultures. That has let to both a respect for others’ points of view, as well as a flexibility of thinking that doesn’t see the way things are done as the way they necessarily should be done.

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What will you say about the work you’ve done at the end of your career?

It made a difference.

Where do you go for inspiration?

Anywhere and everywhere in the Mission…. the greatest open air public art project in the country.

How do you build resilience into your work & company?

Always check in. With values, goals, new ideas, comrades in arms.

What keeps you up at night?

My Kindle.

What gets you up in the morning?

My son…. and De la Paz Mission Blend.

How is your work cross-cultural?

Every system, microcosm, group, and pattern has its own culture. My work interests center on helping different groups communicate–and understand– each other.

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What will you say about the work you’ve done at the end of your career?

I hope to say that I’ve had a career rich and diverse in experiences. I hope to say that I’ve been intellectually challenged and grown beyond what I thought possible. Ultimately, I hope to say that I’ve helped people – whether that’s in motivating them to strive for a job/career that they’re passionate about or in providing companies with exceptional talent.

Where do you go for inspiration?

Running! Golden Gate Park, Marina Green, Presidio, Embarcadero.

How do you build resilience into your work & company?

By keeping my focus on the outcomes and goals I want to achieve and being flexible/creative/open to the ways in which I can get there.

What keeps you up at night?

So much! Generally the “little things” – unsettling emails received that day, unfinished things at work, etc.

What gets you up in the morning?

The opportunity to get things done. The hope of receiving positive news or making progress.

How is your work cross-cultural?

I work with candidates and employers from a variety of educational, socio-economic, international, and cultural backgrounds. I navigate these differences and similarities on a daily basis.

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What will you say about the work you’ve done at the end of your career?

Variety is the spice of life. I always followed my instincts with projects and constantly tried to let my practice be influenced by others outside my field and learn from them.

Where do you go for inspiration?

My peers, walking in London, the internet.

How do you build resilience into your work & company?

I try to keep up with what’s going on across web, technology and product design, so that I know what language to speak to collaborators. Avoiding miss-communication and understanding where people are coming from establishes trust and long-term working relationships.

What keeps you up at night?

Not much, I’m a deep sleeper.

What gets you up in the morning?

Ideas I know I’ll have in the shower.

How is your work cross-cultural?

I guess relocating 14 times across 3 continents tends to make my work ooze out some of those experiences.

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What will you say about the work you’ve done at the end of your career?

I solved some LITTLE problems that affected LARGE segments of the population

Where do you go for inspiration?

My kids, my friends, my family, people around, people before us… The stuff they do and make.

How do you build resilience into your work & company?

Scalability as forethought, systems-approach to small problems, built-in modularity, flexibility … and documentation & process so the solutions can be replicated over and over.

What keeps you up at night?

Love

What gets you up in the morning?

Passion for doing

How is your work cross-cultural?

I am cross-cultural