On Leadership.
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Leaders eat last.
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek.
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Seek first to understand.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood. From the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
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Elevate your people.
I am an educator as much as a designer and my leadership style reflects this. My primary job as a leader is to develop people, giving them opportunities to learn, grow, and shine.
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Hold yourself accountable.
Intro to Data Visualization, Design Basics, Typography I + II.
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Be vulnerable. Be real.
Undergraduate and graduate design courses in Graphic Design Basics, Typography, and Interaction Design. Co-founder of “The PAD” UMBC’s multidisciplinary prototyping and design lab.