Did you ever wonder why so much of our work seems harder than it should be? Does it feel like you are constantly working at altitude, trying to do more work with less oxygen? Well, Karen’s first job in tech was in 1993. You read that right. 1993. That’s almost 30 years across different roles and companies, all in technology and digital products. And no matter how much more skilled we all get, things just seem to be getting harder. How do we move from barely surviving to practically thriving?

In this new talk, we’ll discuss how we get wicked good: moving from competency and mastery to sustainability, even in environments that seem to be set up for failure, disappointment, and eventual burnout. We’ll explore how to make our workspaces kinder, more inclusive, and more supportive of long-term engagement and growth while at the same time encouraging us to be more thoughtful and intentional about the design decisions and career choices we make.

Karen has spent over fifteen years researching, exploring, and designing solutions for wickedly complex business challenges. With a proven foundation in human-centered design and an insatiable curiosity for messy problems, she delights in helping teams discover the authentic behaviors and goals of their users. She uses that information to deliver solutions that are richly informed, empathetically designed, powerfully effective, and gracefully elegant.

RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/STLXMeetup/events/278367877/