Doug Powell is an executive design leader, consultant, and coach with more than 30 years of experience in a range of design disciplines and practices. He has presented at numerous global conferences, forums, and universities including Beirut Design Week in Lebanon, Fortune’s Brainstorm Design in Singapore, and Duke University, where he is on the faculty. Doug was on the jury of the 2018 Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards.

Between 2011-2013 Doug served as the national president of AIGA, the professional association for design in the US. In the past decade he was VP of Design at IBM and Expedia, overseeing design practices, design systems, designer career programs, as well as the scaling of company-wide design thinking practices. He is the producer and host of This Is A Prototype: The Design Leadership Podcast, and works with design leaders as a trainer and coach.