Experience
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design is a global leader in Inclusive Design, Design Thinking and Creative Leadership, working with government, business, academia and the third sector. Ve is an Innovation fellow at the centre working on Inclusive AI, Creative Leadership and supports and drives the Centre’s business development whilst making sure it aligns with the College’s overall strategy.
Cultural Transformation - TheHUB
During Mattel’s cultural and digital transformation, Ve created the first role to support the entire Mattel creative community (400+) at Mattel’s HQ, which the COO sanctioned. Within the role, Ve curated diverse interventions for the creative community, i.e., produced internal and external (ReFuel) speaker series, designed creative career pathing and
co-curated Mattel’s first global creative and innovation summit, CreativeCon.
Board of Directors
In-house steering committee
Ve co-led an eight-member team of design leaders in the development of a resource for in-house design teams. Members included leaders from Coca-Cola, IBM Design and Kimberly Clark.
Decolonising Design Coalition
Ve is the founder and global co-lead of the RSA (US) Decolonising Design Coalition. The coalition consists of globally diverse creative practitioners from industry to academia. The ultimate goal of this coalition is to be a conduit for the global decolonising discourse by breaking down industry silos and bringing together leaders who are embodying decolonising within their work.
Co-curator & Head of Partnerships
Ve co-curated, ReDesign Business, a London Design Festival 2020 virtual programme that brought together design and business thought leaders to challenge thought and to ReThink, ReWire, and ReSet as we face an uncertain future. It was named by Forbes and Wallpaper as
one of the top events to attend during London Design Festival.
Board of Directors & co-creator
Never Not Creative (NNC) is a community of creatives who want to make our industry a better place with a focus on mental health and well being of the creative community. Ve is a co-creator and on the Board of Directors.
Creative Cloud Enterprise Marketing
Ve was a founding member of Adobe
Creative Jam Enterprise programme in North America and solely established and scaled the creative marketing programme in Europe for key clients that included the BBC and WPP.
The Creative Jam programme’s mission is to help support its key enterprise customers to
fully embrace their creative potential whilst meeting business imperatives.
Fellow - Venture Builder
For the founders within Zinc’s Venture Builder programme, Ve provides advice and guidance by leveraging her background and expertise via office hours and roundtables. As well as proguidance for the start ups that receive funding.
Co-founder
Co-founder of the Creative Bravery Festival,
in partnership with Education Scotland.
The festival explored the ecosystem of education,
co-created with young people, educators and creative industries, to celebrate acts of bravery that are evolving and rethinking the way society educates and learns.