I've been honored and humbled throughout my career to have the design community interested in what my team and I have been up to, and to speak about our work and design in various cities and settings. Every now and then, there is media supporting the work as well. Below are the highlights.
Speaking Engagements
AIGA: The professional association for design committed to advancing design as a professional craft, strategic tool and vital cultural force.
•AIGA Pivot Design Conference: Featured speaker - “Expand Your Realm for Success”
•AIGA Voices: Featured webcast presenter - “Listening. Knowing. Creating.”
•AIGA Industry Insights: Featured webinar presenter - “Designing Wellness: Inside Merck’s Healthcare Revolution”
•AIGA Philadelphia: @in, the Conference for In-House Creatives: Featured speaker - “Designing in a Disrupted Space”
•AIGA Oklahoma City: Featured speaker - “What the Heck Does a Design Career Look Like?” Accompanied by a visit, lecture, and portfolio review for students at Southern Nazarene University
•Art Institute of Pittsburgh: Webinar presenter - Graphic Design Career Series “What the Heck Does a Design Career Look Like?”
RGD: The Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) is Canada’s largest professional association for graphic designers.
•Design Thinkers: Canada’s largest design conference - Featured speaker - “Designing In a Disrupted Space”
HOW: Publication and event coordinating organization serving the business, creativity and technology needs of Graphic Designers.
•HOW Design Live Conference: Featured speaker - “Expand Your Realm for Success”
•DesignCast presenter. Topic: “From Order-Taker to Business Partner”
•Webinar Presenter: “Influencing the Corporate Attitude Toward In-House Designers”
FUSE: Fuse unites designers, brand strategists, marketers, innovators and insights leaders across industries to discuss the power and impact of design.
•FUSE: Design & Culture // Brand Identity & Packaging: Featured Speaker - “The Grass is Always Greener in the Lobby”
•FUSE Radio: Interviewed for two-part podcast - “The Next Big Design”
Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY: Internationally recognized college for design, fashion, art, communications, and business.
•Featured speaker: Spoke to design students about in-house design studios in comparison to external agencies to help them make post-graduate career decisions.
Invision: A digital product design platform for prototyping and collaboration to help designers and development teams work together more effectively to build digital products.
•Design Leadership Forum: Speaker/Discussion Moderator - “Creating Strong Partnerships Between Design and Engineering Teams” (Toronto, Canada).
•Design Leadership Forum: Speaker/Facilitator on the topic of “Design Leadership” (Brooklyn, NY)
Insource: InSource is committed to leadership excellence and effective business management for creative in-house leaders.
•Signature event in NYC: Theory+Practice - Keynote speaker at - “Managing Change Within In-house Creative Departments”
The Art Institute: Private art college in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The school emphasized design education and career preparation.
•Career Series Webcast: Featured Speaker
Design Story Podcast: Stories from the boldest influencers about design and how it shapes the world around us.
•Guest on Jeni Herberger’s design podcast “The Good, Bad, & Broken Design”
Talk Story Podcast: A series of bi-weekly conversations to share the backstory of people who inspire us because they took life to the next level and made something rockin’ cool of it.
•Guest on Jeni Herberger’s design podcast.
Bureau of Digital: Community of creative leaders offering support, growth, and connection through events, insights.
•Featured guest discussing design systems and unified experiences.
The Busy Creator: A podcast and website focused on helping creative professionals in arts, design, and media to become more productive and successful.
•Podcast: Interviewed on tools, techniques and habits for creative success.
Media
AIGA
• AIGA & The Creative Group: Featured article about organizing teams for speed, agility, and change in “Step Up Your Digital Game. Lessons from In-House Creative Teams”
• AIGA & The Creative Group: Featured on “Go Digital (Or Die Trying): Lessons From In-House Creative Teams”
• Featured in Three-Part Series on AIGA.org: “How Bob Calvano is Building a Strategic In-House Team”
• Featured on AIGA.org: “A&E’s VP of Design on the Sexiest–and Least Sexy–Parts of Working at a Major TV Network”
Graphic Design USA: Since 1963 Graphic Design USA has been the news magazine for graphic designers and other creative professionals.
•Featured in February 2015 “People to Watch” issue
•Interviewed as an expert for special report - “The In-House Creative Team of the Future” Published in GDUSA’s American In-House Design Annual
The Wrap: The leading, authoritative digital news organization covering the business of entertainment and media.
•Pluto TV Revamping On-Demand Library Interface to Boost Content Discovery | Exclusive
HOW
•In-House Issues: Featured professional profile in How Magazine Business Annual for accomplishments at Merck - “The Art of Possibility”
AdAge: A global media brand that publishes news, analysis, and data on marketing and media.
•Oxygen: Campus Ladies: “Editor’s Pick” article featuring the website for Campus Ladies series
DesignBetter.co: The essential guide to the best design practices from top design experts.
•Featured in a video series on building efficiency with design systems.
•Featured in article “When is The Right Time to Start a Design System?”
FUSE
•Featured on Next Big Design website: “Merck In-House Design Group Thrives on Competition”
The Design Activist’s Handbook: (HOW Books) - former publisher focused on design books
•Contributed to the book written by Noah Scalin and Michelle Taute. Interviewed by Noah about expanding my team’s role and moving beyond traditional boundaries. Referenced as a professional promoting positive change. Environmental graphics from Dublin, Ireland office space was featured in the book as well.
Cella Consulting: An award-winning leader in consulting, staffing and managed solutions for creative, marketing, digital and proposal development teams.
•Contributed article to In-House creative Services Industry Report.
InVision
•Interviewed and Featured in Inside Design Article: A+E Networks Product Design Team
•Interviewed and Featured in Article: How A+E Networks Designs Consistent UX Across Channels
Insource: InSource is committed to leadership excellence and effective business management for creative in-house leaders.
•Contributed to InSource Leadership book on best practices and processes for in-house creative leaders. “The Best Opportunities Are Often Hidden in the Shittiest Requests”
•InSource Interview: I Am Curious, I Am In-House
•InSource Interview: Insights with Bob Calvano
Incrementor (Agile NYC): Consulting firm, specializing in agile project and product management for individual teams and entire enterprises.
•Featured in podcast about the success of Agile teams