Platforme has a diverse, experienced, highly knowledgeable, interdisciplinary team who work together to apply their expertise with a unified approach and an integrated framework. Our teams are mobile / global and uniquely designed for every engagement. Our teams are led by our leads (below), who collaborate with futurists, researchers, recruiters, creatives, technologists, visual thinkers and graphic facilitators to make ideas, new products and services, and novel experiences come to life.
Christine Chastain, research and design lead Christine is a human-centered strategic design specialist who uses foresight, mixed research methods across digital and analog platforms and cultural understanding to explore complex questions that lead to the development of strategic design solutions for organizational success. Across many years of global experience, Christine helps Fortune 500 brands, government agencies and non-profit groups align vision, strategy and implementation to address changing future dynamics. She explores deep insight in user experience, behaviors and unmet needs, emerging technology and brand challenges in order to address gaps and opportunities n product, service and process solutions. In addition, Christine has strong experience in capacity building within organizations. She was a founding team member of the Advanced Portfolio Exploration Group at General Motors, the Center for Innovation at Mayo Clinic and most recently, Cigna's Innovation Center of Excellence. Several of her engagements have focused on gender issues, social innovation, community based health and sustainability initiatives. Christine has a background in design, holds a MA in International Affairs, a certificate in Women’s Studies and pursues doctoral work in Anthropology.
Marady Hill, transformation lead Marady is a change, culture and story consultant and creative producer who helps people adopt and enjoy new ways of working and have better product and service experiences. Marady believes in our collective power to co-create positive experiences and impacts. As a transformation leader with over 22 years of experience in ideation, strategy, brand, culture, story, communications, change and new ways of working, she applies human-centered design and user experience principles in co-creative, collaborative ways that grow change resiliency and capability. Her consulting experience includes multiple growth, practice and leadership roles at Future State, Bonfire Communications, and Booz, Allen; and she was a creative show producer and program manager for Walt Disney Imagineering. Marady is a Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Tilt Coach, is Prosci-certified in Change Practitioner and Enterprise Change Management, and earned her BA in Political, Legal & Economic Analysis, a Certificate in Integrated Waste Management, and completed graduate work in Philosophy & Religion.
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