Neil is a designer, entrepreneur, educator and author with a passion for seeing human centered design applied with artisanal care to every kind of artifact of the human imagination – and to bring forward design as a framework for enlivened leadership.
After starting his career with furniture maker Herman Miller, he brought the people centered innovation process he practiced there to Silicon Valley where he founded the design agency Praxis, and led multi-disciplinary teams developing award winning products.
He has taught in art, design and business schools covering industrial design, design research, design thinking and an ethical framework for design practice he refers to as design consciousness.
As an entrepreneur he founded WorkClub, the first co-working business operating on a subscription business model. He has also created ventures in digital photography, online print fulfillment and solar power.
Neil lives in Berkeley, CA with his wife and son who is studying architecture having somehow concluded that being a designer would be a good idea.
