I help creative and mission driven organizations grow, scale and navigate change without burnout and overwhelm.
I use human-centered systems thinking to help organizations and leaders respond to complex challenges, while staying connected to their mission, vision, and values.
Sustainable Strategic Planning
I use design thinking principles to work with you to create a practical growth plan that supports your goals, values, and your people.
Human - Centered Implementation
I provide hands-on support and coaching to ensure organizational change happens with empathy and efficiency, focusing on the needs of the people involved.
Design Thinking Facilitation
You and your team are the creative geniuses you’re looking for. I design and facilitate workshops that unlock that creativity, foster collaboration, and turn hazy ideas into tangible plans.
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Fractional Creative Leadership
As an organizational leader, I build and foster high-functioning creative teams and help organizations understand and embrace a design lead culture, while still moving fast to meet business goals. Over the past 12 years, I’ve built creative teams from scratch, consulted organizations on how to structure their design team and coached, developed, and promoted amazing people.
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For Non-Profits and Scaling Start-Ups
The service or product you provide is only as good as the organization that supports it. I use human-centered systems design to understand complex problems and uncover simple, scalable solutions. Together, we’ll create a strategic plan, develop a a plan to execute it, and partner to ensure you stay on track, while staying true to your values and supporting your people.
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For Leaders
As a human-centered designer and movement practitioner, I understand that real leadership, creativity, and the ability to make the bold changes you want to create doesn’t come from more corporate leadership training, masculine energy or girl bossing. I work with leaders who feel overwhelmed, stressed, anxious, stuck and burned out find their way back to themselves, so they can take back their lives and lead the way they know they can.
What People Are Saying About Working With Me
“Carlye has supported me while I've navigated my burnout recovery, offering a nurturing and safe environment. In our work, she guided me towards a new perspective on work-life balance and equipped me with practical tools for daily life. I'm gradually learning to set better boundaries and prioritize smarter, so I can be present both at work, with my family, and myself.”
“I have enjoyed every single session with Carlye. The sessions help me dig deep in myself and understand my values as well as listen to my body. Carlye has given me tools to return back to body and give it the space it needs. I have long lasting effects from traumatic events and this is helping me reconnect with myself.”
Results
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Amazon | Strategic Creative Leadership
I lead the product, engineering and design team to launch Stencil, a design system and React component library that has become the internal gold standard of accessible development at Amazon. 2 years after it’s initial release, 30 internal products were using the Stencil design system, and the organization has a standing goal to ensure all new products were built using the system. Designers and engineers using Stencil reported time savings of 50% on average, this was estimated to be a cost saving of $500,000 per team.
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Amazon | Creative Leadership, Organizational Change
I led the creative team to conduct generative research, multiple rounds of iterative design, and evaluative research to put forward a new product design strategy to teach Amazon’s unique culture at scale. After the initial launch of the product and service strategy, 91.7% of managers self-reported that the program helped them prioritize the most important actions. Customer feedback was positive, ‘this has changed my life,’ and ‘I am so excited for this product.’
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Amazon | Strategic Planning
In order to support Amazon’s People Experience and Technology strategic planning process, I worked with the team to conduct ethnographic research to deeply understand customer needs. I helped the team use that understanding to build an empathy-led strategy that considers the human factors and the business requirements. I led the team in using these artifacts to develop user stories, for yearly planning and prioritization, or for strategic planning sessions at the executive level to ensure business goals are in line with what customers need.
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Clear Label | Creative Leadership
Clear Label is a startup focused on transparency in food labels. I led the team to conduct multiple rounds of ethnographic research - generative research via collaborative design sessions, ride along studies and in-depth interviews. I developed a product strategy that focused on people with food sensitivities who wanted a solution that allowed them to experience dining out without the stress and anxiety caused by their food intolerances. I packaged the design research, strategy and concepts into a deck the team could use to secure funding. The team was excited to have a strategic, research-backed direction for their idea that they could develop further with the clarity of a specific problem and solution.
