Doug Powell

Doug Powell is an award-winning designer and executive design leader with more than 30 years of experience in a wide range of design disciplines. A recipient of the 2014 Distinguished Alumni Award from the WashU Sam Fox School, and the 2014 Fellow Award from AIGA Minnesota, Powell is a lecturer, commentator, and thought leader on design issues. He has presented at a variety of global conferences, forums, and universities including Beirut Design Week in Lebanon, Fortune’s Brainstorm Design in Singapore, and the Yale School of Management. He was on the jury of the 2018 Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards. Between 2011-2013 Doug served as the national president of AIGA, the professional association for design in the U.S.

In the past decade Powell served as vice president of design at IBM and Expedia Group, where he oversaw design practices, design systems, designer career and leadership programs, as well as the scaling of cross-functional design thinking practices across the companies. Alongside his leadership training and coaching practice, he is the producer and host of This Is A Prototype: The Design Leadership Podcast.