Speakers
Lisa Anderson
Lisa has spent her career creating evocative, holistic experiences through harnessing storytelling, advancing technology, and pointed leadership of talented, passionate teams.
Currently, she is Director of Design at Booking.com where she started almost five years ago as part of a new Design Leadership team dedicated to evolving the import, role, and impact of design within the leading travel corporation headquartered in Amsterdam. She is devoted to team-building, change management, and raising the quality, visibility, and influence of user experience organizations.
Through insight, education, collaboration, and cultural and organizational development, she grows teams and creates products in ways that build leadership, customer loyalty and delight, corporate revenue. Anderson’s background is in traditional and multimedia publishing; she’s acted as a designer, writer, editor, managing editor, producer, executive producer. She was Executive Producer at Corbis and at R/GA in New York.
In the corporate software world, she’s acted as Director, Senior Director, and VP at Microsoft, Intuit, Autodesk, and Sears, managing copy and content strategy, user research, and design.
About the talk
Taking Risks, building resilience and reaping the rewards
Even though you may not end up exactly where you thought you would be at the end of your career, you will probably be able to look back and identify which passions, skills, principles, and opportunities shaped your journey. By consciously curating your own career, you will discover the virtues of developing personal values, leveraging your strengths, managing your own brand, and taking your seat at the table.
Lisa did not expect to end up leading UX teams in large, corporate software firms, but she found a true calling for building design teams that ship great experiences and build revenue and loyalty for the company. And she's learned plenty of lessons along the way. Join Lisa to explore how we can leverage our passions, take risks, and build the right skills that will result in a rewarding career.