Emily is a creative leader, educator, entrepreneur, and artist who uses human-centered design methods to foster new mindsets and imagine new outcomes. She has combined design thinking, lean UX, and sprint methodology to lead innovation-related projects and training around the world for governments, startups, non-profits, and corporations including Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Accenture, Polaris, American Airlines, Vanguard, Visa, Discount Tire, Bank of Montreal, NASA, Pitney Bowes, Allstate, Coca-Cola, Standard Chartered, and others.

Her work helps people to tap into their creativity to transform team dynamics, corporate cultures, and the design of services, products, and experiences.

Always engaged in creative pursuits, Emily founded and ran a successful stained glass production company that sold handcrafted work to more than 500 galleries around the world. She currently sells mixed-media paintings and metalsmithing work online and in stores. She also starred in a pre-Broadway workshop of a Marc Blitzstein musical, and was featured as a singer and musician in an off-Broadway production with renowned Broadway composer Stephen Schwartz.

In her careers both as an artist and as a human-centered design specialist, Emily has always believed that everyone has the potential to be wildly creative. She founded Curio.us to help others find that spark.