I develop product visions, strategy and meaningful experiences to improve people's lives and the world.
Improving Cross-Functional Collaborations and Accelerating Innovation
At the core of what I do is empowering the product development community to adopt human-centered design processes, through hands-on design sprints, training programs or inspirational content and thought leadership. I have built platforms and programs to inspire, educate and grow a global community.
Accelerating Innovation Launching Products
Aligning Stakeholders Problem Solving
Rapid Experimentation
I inspire, train and lead teams
In addition to working closely with teams from a wide range of companies to deliver high quality product outcomes, I also develop and teach processes and methodologies that enable people to collaborate more effectively to launch successful human-centered products.
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Testimonials
“The world's next generation of innovative products & services needs more, stronger, design-driven leaders & facilitators. We're honoring stand-out facilitators we've worked with or learned from. The first to make our list is Kai Haley.
Kai pulls triple duty here...First, she facilitates sprints and innovation programs within Google and for their client partners. Second, she runs Google's Design Sprint Academy which trains all of the future Googler facilitators. Third, she puts the design sprint community on her back by organizing the highly coveted annual Sprint Conference each year - https://lnkd.in/dy_myEd
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- Daniel Stillman & Jay Melone of Innovation Leadership Accelerator
Speaking Engagements
I/O 2019: Prototyping Voice Experiences: Design Sprints for the Google Assistant
ConveyUX 2018: The Power of Design Sprints Drive Ethical Product Design
CHI 2017: Tweaking Design Thinking for Strategic and Tactical Impact Panel Discussion
I/O 2017: Using Design Sprints to Increase Cross-Functional Collaboration
Product Tank 2017: Typology of Design Sprints
TakeOver Innovation 2017 : 3 Stories of Acceleration
I/O 2016: Flexing Design Sprints for Success
Fluxible 2016: Typology of Design Sprints
Design Thinking in Action Asia 2016 - Building a Culture of Innovation