Folks we love teaming up with.
We’re a small firm with a tremendous bench of experts—folks who lead with both expertise and heart. We believe the best work comes from great collaboration (plus, it makes everything more fun). Over the years, we’ve built teams, cultures, and communities by carefully curating the right mix of brainpower, empathy, and lived experience. And if DESIGN+ isn’t quite the right fit? We’d love to connect you with someone from our network.
Barbara is an organizational psychology practitioner who is obsessed with disrupting an outdated construct of work. She helps leaders reimagine what work can be and how they can achieve their goals in a new era of industry. As a means of executing her dreams, Barbara serves as the Principal Consultant at Moonlight Strategy.
Barbara Patchen
Brent has led over a hundred engagements (and counting) with diverse organizations, from startups to Fortune 500 companies. He spent ten years leading education, innovation, and culture projects for clients across diverse industries at Stoked, a design thinking consultancy. Before stoked he was in investment banking at Avondale Partners and driving data-driven quality initiatives at e+CancerCare using design thinking principles.
Brent Taylor
Meenu is a designer and educator focused on helping people (re)discover their creative potential. As faculty at Stanford's d.school, Meenu teaches students in the undergraduate and graduate design programs. She also co-leads the d.school's Teaching & Learning Studio portfolio, where she's worked with 1000+ educators, administrators, and leaders from around the globe. Beyond her work in education, Meenu designs with and coaches government agencies, private companies, and nonprofit organizations seeking to reinvigorate their modes of thinking and doing.
Meenu Singh
Jonathan is a senior design leader with a background in a human-centered approach to product and service design, prototyping and design research. He’s worked with organizations such as UNICEF, IDEO, Gates Foundation and TVA, and as a guest instructor in social innovation at Vanderbilt University.
Jonathan Newberry
Emily is a veteran designer who approaches proiect management with creativity and purpose. Her almost 20 years of experience blend creativity, purpose, technical mastery and human-centered design to create impact for renowned global brands. She thrives on fostering dynamic collaborations, aiming to elevate education, ignite inspiration, and instigate meaningful action.