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| Maureen Thurston |
Maureen Thurston
Design Leverage Consultant, Second Road, Pty. Ltd. (Australia)
A consultant, educator, entrepreneur, lecturer and author, Maureen began her industrial design career over 25 years ago. In 1987 she founded ACCESS International, the first brokerage for product design and development in the United States. ACCESS has since evolved into a Design Leverage® consultancy counseling executive management on the strategic deployment of design as a catalyst to unlock innovation, creativity and top-line growth. (www.designleverage.com)
Formerly an Adjunct Associate Professor in Design Management and Leadership at Art Center College of Design, Maureen created this dynamic curriculum and was recognized by her students in 2003 with the Art Center Great Teacher Award. In 2005 she led the first international educational exchange between Art Center and INSEAD, a top-ranked business school with campuses in France and Singapore, to advance design’s aggregate value within the MBA mindset, while exposing Art Center students to the quantitative drivers of business. Beyond consulting and education, Maureen has also designed, developed, patented, and commercialized a line of houseware products that sold through retail and catalog channels.
She serves on the Advisory Boards for the Design Management Institute and Suffolk University Sawyer School of Management: Innovation and Design Management EMBA. In 1992 she chaired the IDSAWorldDesign Conference; co-chaired the Hardware Track for PDMA’s 2001 Creating the Future Conference, and was invited to judge the International Housewares Show Design Competition in 2005 and 2006.
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