Elevate your UX Career with 30 years of real-world guidance
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Navigating a design career today means balancing changing markets, emerging AI tools, and portfolio burnout.
Turn 30 years of UX leadership into your next career leap. Flexible 1:1 portfolio reviews and career strategy, conducted in four one-hour sessions, tailored entirely to where you're stuck.
The Job Market Today
Design has changed—so must your career strategy.
Navigating a design career today is exhausting. Job markets are crowded, portfolio templates all look identical, and the rise of AI leaves many wondering how to stay indispensable. You don't need another online course or algorithmic feedback tool—you need a seasoned mentor to look at your work with real human eyes and tell you exactly what hiring managers are searching for.
Portfolio & Narrative Audits: Move beyond pixel-pushing. We’ll reshape your case studies to highlight business impact, problem-solving, and your unique design voice.
Strategic Positioning: Learn how to present yourself as a high-value product thinker—whether you are aiming for a senior promotion or making a mid-career pivot.
AI-Era Career Proofing: Integrate modern AI workflows into your process while doubling down on the human skills algorithms can't replicate: empathy, facilitation, and product intuition.
Interview & Offer Guidance: Prepare for high-stakes presentations, whiteboarding sessions, and salary negotiations with a veteran who has sat on the other side of the table.
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The 5 Step Career Strategy Clinic Framework
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About the mentor:
With 30 years of experience hiring and scaling design teams, I help you bridge the gap to your next senior role with targeted, diagnostic guidance.
I’ve spent three decades in the design trenches—leading teams, launching products, and reviewing thousands of portfolios as a hiring manager. I’ve watched tools evolve from early web layout software to modern AI platforms, but one constant remains: great design careers are built on clarity, narrative, and human connection.
I created the Career Strategy Clinic because automated portfolio scanners and generic online advice leave talented designers feeling stuck. I offer the 1-on-1, empathetic guidance I wish I had coming up—helping you cut through the noise, articulate your true value, and navigate your next big career leap with confidence
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Why a personal brand strategy works.
The Standard "Portfolio Review"
Focuses on output: UI screens, wireframes, and generic double-diamond diagrams.
Views the portfolio as a scrapbook: A chronological archive of everything ever built.
Chases trends: Blindly adopting bento grids or copying AI templates.
Feeds the AI "slop": Producing homogenized content that looks like every other candidate.
The "UX Career Strategy Clinic"
Focuses on positioning: Who are you, how do you think, and why are you irreplaceable?
Views the portfolio as a product: A purpose-built marketing asset tailored for an exhausted hiring manager.
Uncovers the narrative arc: Curating stepping stones that guide the reviewer through an authentic journey.
Highlights the human margin: Showcasing hard decisions, technical friction, and business metrics.
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Experience is the best shortcut
You don't need another generic course or more AI advice—you need a real human in your corner. Let’s take a look at your work together and build a clear path to your next senior role.
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