Product / Design / innovator

I’m a product and design leader who helps teams turn business opportunity and customer insight into products and experiences people value.

- Led digital transformation strategy for private equity firms and executive leadership teams
- Invented and launched a digital yearbook platform adopted by millions of students nationwide
- Built and scaled design teams from 0 to 20+ across multiple organizations
- Developed and rolled out enterprise persona and enablement programs across business units
- Delivered digital products and campaigns used by millions of customers globally
- Rapidly build trust across teams and functions to understand how the business actually works
- Turn ambiguous inputs into clear product direction and priorities
- Align stakeholders through direct, structured communication
- Move from idea to execution without losing momentum
- Stay hands-on in critical moments to ensure quality and progress
- Create clarity quickly and push teams toward decisions
- Shift between leading and executing based on what the situation demands
- Use evidence to drive decisions, not opinion or habit
- Coach through real work, not theory
- Stay anchored in customer needs while balancing business goals

Clients

Trusted by product, marketing, and executive teams at Fortune 500 and growth companies.

Spotlight Projects

Happy Clients

Charlie is one of the most creative forces I’ve had the pleasure of working with. He’s amazingly talented at the intersection of customer and data with a tenacity for execution. Charlie’s a great team leader, collaborator and partner. Charlie has consistently delivered high value, competitively advantageous projects on time and on budget no matter the industry or company, which as a client sponsor I’ve really appreciated. Truly a gem to work with.

Emily Ashworth, Operating Partner, Platinum Equity
Charlie knows what he's talking about but is a very willing collaborator. He listens and is able to present his opinions, ideas, guidance and direction in a congenial, easy-to-digest manner. On a project that is as deeply personal to an organization as its intranet, consultants who can become one of the internal team quickly and easily are prized. Charlie managed it

Caroline Siemers, Communications, ActivisionBlizzard
I found collaboration time with Charlie to be some of the most valuable of my career. He has an uncanny knack of considering multiple perspectives when solving a problem, but still staying on track to deliver what is best for the project and the team. He is flexible to what the situation dictates while still holding to core objects and keeping the product on track.

Sean Lanning, Lead Software Engineer, Livingston International