{"id":176,"date":"2021-07-23T17:03:21","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T21:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/civic-design-2021\/?p=176"},"modified":"2021-07-23T17:03:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T21:03:21","slug":"meet-sarah-brooks-civic-design-co-curator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/civic-design-2021\/2021\/07\/23\/meet-sarah-brooks-civic-design-co-curator\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Sarah Brooks, Civic Design Co-curator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1090311907&amp;color=%23539733&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=false&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"The Rosenfeld Review Podcast (Rosenfeld Media)\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rosenfeld-media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Rosenfeld Review Podcast (Rosenfeld Media)<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"Meet Sarah Brooks, Civic Design Co-curator\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rosenfeld-media\/sarah-brooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Meet Sarah Brooks, Civic Design Co-curator<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah Brooks is a design leader and intrapreneur who uses strategic design and mixed-methods research to help teams and organizations reach better outcomes. She has worked in enterprise, federal, non-profit, start-up, and hybrid organizations. If you\u2019re one of millions of US military veterans, her work at the Veterans Administration has touched your life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are pleased to welcome Sarah as a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/civic-design-2021\/\">Civic Design conference <\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and community curation team! In this Rosenfeld Review episode, she shares her experience at the VA, digging into specific challenges when working within a large org, learning what \u2018patriotism\u2019 means from people who are in the service, and how soft-skills (people skills, really) are needed at the systems level.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah recommends: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Emergent-Strategy-Shaping-Change-Changing\/dp\/1849352607\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emergent Strategy <\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by Adrienne Maree Brown\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tickets to Civic Design 2021 are now available; <a href=\"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/civic-design-2021\/\">register now<\/a>!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>More about Sarah:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah Brooks is a design leader and intrapreneur working at the intersection of foresight, service design, and mixed-methods research approaches to help teams and organizations reach better outcomes. She has worked across the enterprise, federal, non-profit, start-up, and hybrid organizations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently, Sarah is the Executive design leader responsible for the development and diffusion of standards and practices that create experience excellence across IBM&#8217;s product and service teams. She is an active mentor, author, educator, and speaker on the art &amp; craft of seamless experiences and living systems approached to complex challenges.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah is the author of System Shifting, in the book Strategic Design Thinking: Innovation in Products, Services and Beyond, and the essay Collective Strength and Greater Understanding Through Co-Design in the book Leap Dialogues: Career Pathways in Design for Social Innovation.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sarah served as a 2014-2015 U.S. Presidential Innovation Fellow at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs continuing on as a political appointee until the end of the Obama-Biden Administration, working as Chief Design Officer leading a team that worked on strategic transformation priorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prior to government service, Sarah lived in San Francisco and worked in the social impact ecosystem and currently lives in Montauk, New York.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rosenfeld Review Podcast (Rosenfeld Media) \u00b7 Meet Sarah Brooks, Civic Design Co-curator Sarah Brooks is a design leader and intrapreneur who uses strategic design and mixed-methods research to help teams and organizations reach better outcomes. 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