Michael is a Design Insurgent and Chief Unhappiness Officer

Veteran | Woodworker | Maker | Designer

Hopeful Innovation Junkie, Business Innovation Factory (BIF) Founder & Chief Catalyst, LunaYou Founder and CEO

System thinker, story teller, designer, husband, father of 3, San Franciscan, Bernal Heights neighbor

Designing business, and the business of design. www.eleganthack.com

CEO, Synthetikos. Depolarizing place-based transitions.

Designer. Strategist. Possibilitist. Imagination.

Design director at Capital One; author of the book Why We Fail http://bit.ly/WhyWeFailBook ; founded IA Institute & Overlap; taught at Parsons, Pratt, Rutgers

Professor @CCAIxD @DesignMBA / Mentor @Highway1io / Formerly @dlightdesign, @GEdesign, @Method_Inc, @Metadesign

Author of Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries & Interviewing Users (http://portigal.com/books ), Host @DollrsToDonuts podcast, work at Portigal Consulting

Founder, XPLANE. Author, The Connected Company and Gamestorming http://xplaner.com

(post)sustainable service systems, (post)critical design thinking, https://www.uts.edu.au/staff/cameron.tonkinwise, @camerontw@social.coop

Founder of Center for Transformational Change https://transformationalchange.co. Using narrative to cultivate community power towards just futures.

Design and Product executive.