Shaping the Conversation on Design Leadership: On Stage, On Air, In Print
From AIGA and RGD conference stages to design industry press and podcasts — a consistent presence in conversations about design leadership, organizational change, and what it takes to build teams and products that scale.
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.
• In-House Design Conference 2026: Featured speaker - “Design Leadership at Scale”
• 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