Building the Creative Career You Really Want
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About This Event
Creative careers are by nature highly individualized. There are no road maps, but there are some important things creative people can do to increase their chances of success.
In this panel discussion hosted by SheSays Denver and General Assembly, we will learn from some of the most creative designers, marketers, and entrepreneurs in Denver. They will share successful career strategies, ways to find inspiration, and tips for building a creative career.
This event concludes with a 20-minute class exercise for each participant to imagine and define their creative career. Join us to start dreaming, imagining, and building the creative career you really want.
About the Panelists:
Michelle Crippen (https://generalassemb.ly/instructors/michelle-crippen/15190)
Senior Art Director,
Xuma Communications
Michelle comes to Denver by way of Kansas where she received a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Design with an emphasis in Visual Communication from KU. But one day, she found herself not in Kansas anymore, but in Venice, Cornuda, Bologna and Parma, where she worked under master printer Alessandro Zanella at Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione. (While no one is sure exactly what that means, it sounds really impressive…every single time she brings it up.)
Armed with an artist’s eye, a farmer’s work ethic, and the ping pong skills of a quick wristed Chinese Olympian, Michelle pleases her parents by actually using the skills she studied in college to make a handsome living.
With stints at two Kansas City agencies, Fleishman-Hillard and Sporting KC, Michelle was also a senior Designer at IMM in Boulder. Currently, she’s a Senior Art Director at Xuma Communications in Denver where she spends most of her time working on Steamboat Ski Resort, as well as an athletic shoe and sports apparel company headquartered in Portland Oregon. Her work is featured in award shows near and far, and her early work, which many a critic would agree is quite undisciplined, and her brother considered “abhorrent, irrelevant and a blight on our home” hangs on her mother’s refrigerator.
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Meridith Pushnik (https://generalassemb.ly/instructors/meridith-pushnik/15253)
Solution Architect,
Slalom
Meridith brings 12+ years of designing brand-elevating experiences for financial services, healthcare, government, and telecommunication clients. She believes taking a human-centered design approach will create the most impact for clients and their customers. She is an empathic designer who is dedicated to solving problems through a human-centered design approach. By balancing user needs with business constraints, she bring solutions to life that are both beautiful and functional.
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Leigh Buck (https://generalassemb.ly/instructors/leigh-buck/15274)
Creative Director,
Havenly
Leigh is a Creative Director living in Denver, who enjoys building meaningful products through collaboration, problem-solving and attention to detail. Leigh has almost a decade of experience focused on constructing visual systems and user interfaces for web and mobile. She's designed for many facets of both B2B and B2C including marketing, branding, e-commerce and internal product design/strategy. Her work has been featured in the iOS App Store, TechCrunch, Wired, Lifehacker, The Next Web, The New York Times and more.
She's passionate about "design" in all forms and thrives on work that pushes boundaries. Aside from her day job, you can find her designing and screen-printing vinyl record covers for her husband's record label.
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Quinn Lindgren (https://generalassemb.ly/instructors/quinn-lindgren/15316)
Senior Art Director,
GRENADIER
After testing out both coasts, Quinn has decided to put her art direction skills to work here in Boulder. With 7+ years under her belt, she's worked at some of the country's top agencies, Goodby, Silverstein + Partners, Butler, Shine, Stern + Partners, Arnold Worldwide and Toth + Co. to name a few. While on her world tour, she's worked on almost every type of client you can think of, big and small, including Espolon Tequila, Keds, Chevrolet, Timex, El Pollo Loco, Progressive, Hyatt and Wrangler Jeans. When she's not sweating the details of one of her projects, she can be found raiding the snack cabinet. She has a real problem.
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Chris Dalton (https://generalassemb.ly/instructors/chris-dalton/15306)
Founder, Empowered Achievers
Chris is the founder of Empowered Achievers, a career coaching and development company focused on helping high-achieving professional women develop fulfilling careers that they love. She's a development junkie and an unwavering believer that work doesn't need to be painful. She originally came from the corporate advertising world, where she most recently was the Global Mobile Media Supervisor at an agency in San Francisco, with Google as her main client. With a background in corporate, she knows a thing or two about the pressure of a 9 to 5 (or 6 or 7). She started her business to help women develop their perfectly designed career "puzzle pieces" to fit within their fulfilling lives. She's passionate about getting rid of "Sunday scaries" for her clients once and for all.