Maria, a detailed-oriented systems thinker, sees the forest AND the trees, the leaves, the roots, and how everything is interconnected. Maria is skilled in communications and stakeholder management. She believes user-centered design starts with the individuals creating the solutions, and that aligning different roles around customers’ problems, along with creative collaboration, is essential to her process. She is an expert in the tools and methods used for in-person and remote facilitation, and leads teams in dozens of highly interactive, virtual design sprints and research workshops.