SPEAKERS.
Jeff Gothelf
Coach, speaker, Author
Jeff works as a coach, speaker, author & consultant to help organizations build better products and executives build the cultures that build better products.
I started my career as a designer working with the first companies to use the internet as a new communication, sales and service channel. Over my 20 year career I have worked as an information architect, design team leader, product manager, founder, trainer, coach and consultantAfter co-writing the award-winning Lean UX (O’Reilly, 2013 & 2016) and Sense & Respond (HBR Press, 2017) I co-founded Sense & Respond Press with co-author, longtime business partner and friend Josh Seiden. The goal? Bring customer-centric, evidence-based decision making and agility back into corporate cultures.
Today I work as an independent consultant to large organizations struggling with their digital transformation, increasing their agility and integrating good product management and User Experience practices into their ways of working. I teach and coach executives and product teams on these challenges and am proud to be a contributor to these organizations’ evolution.
On a personal note, I am happily married for nearly 20 years and am am the proud father of two amazing daughters. We also have an old cat and a young dog.
Forever employable: how to ensure your career stays as agile as your work
In this talk becoming forever employable. Jeff shares his story of how the ideas behind agility, product thinking, design thinking, lean UX can be applied to professional development and our career growth and we are building a reality where opportunities continue to find us.