Design Sprint

About C. Todd LombardoRichard BanfieldTrace Wax

The CEO and Co-Founder of Boston-Based User Experience Agency Fresh Tilled Soil Richard wears the strategic hat around the office. He's worked his way up the web marketing food chain starting with online ad sales at MultiChoice Africa's largest TV and Internet media business. Richard was in the thick of it during the heady dot-com years founding Acceleration an international e-marketing business headquartered in London. He has never met a whiteboard he didn't like. In a world of hyper-specialization C. Todd stands in the intersections and sees the connections that revolve around us. As an Innovation Architect at Constant Contact's InnoLoft he facilitates product and service design sprints for a wide range of external startups and internal product teams. C. Todd is also a member of the adjunct faculty at Madrid's prestigious IE Business School where he teaches courses on Creativity Innovation Design-Thinking and Communication. After a career in user experience design and research at companies like Microsoft and Nuance Trace then became a developer at Pivotal Labs and is now a Managing Director at thoughtbot. He has facilitated numerous product design sprints and is an author and maintainer of thoughtbot's design sprint methodology repository. He's brought Lean and Agile methodology to many large companies and small startups helping teams to focus prioritize and become happy and productive