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The leading manufacturer of furniture for offices, hospitals, and classrooms. Our furniture is inspired by innovative research in workspace design.

At Steelcase, we believe that space shapes behavior and that everyone’s workplace should help them realize their full potential and support their holistic wellbeing. We are a global company that serves leading organizations in business, healthcare, and education. We are also a design thinking and insight-led company. I am a leader on the new business innovation team which is responsible for delivering viable growth opportunities for the company both by designing new services and experiences that solve real problems and working with the start-up ecosystem to drive value in that ecosystem and also for Steelcase. At the end of the day, we aspire to create a more meaningful world of work for people to unlock human promise.In the past, I have been a business designer with a strong operations background. I have significant experience in business strategy, manufacturing, supply chain, materials management, lean consulting and leading start-up businesses within a corporate setting.Specialties: Lean Start-up, Design Thinking, Business Strategy, Strategic Planning, Operations Management, Manufacturing Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Materials Management, Lean Manufacturing, Lean Product Development