About me
With 30 years of leadership, strategy, and research experience, I advocate for learner-centric schools as the founding director at the University of Kentucky's Laboratory on Design Thinking. I'm also a trusted advisor on generative AI for educators and policymakers, serving on advisory boards and presenting for various educational and government organizations. My passion lies in advancing education through human-centered design, a topic I explored in my book "Design Thinking in Schools." I have held faculty positions at Iowa State University and the University of Texas at El Paso. I was a social research scientist at Stanford University, where I directed interdisciplinary and international teams of research scientists examining the application of innovative technologies to learning.