Emily is a designer and leader fascinated by humans and growth. She works with individuals, teams and organizations to tap into and grow new skillsets and mindsets that empower folks to do meaningful, creative work. She leads DESIGN+, a small design practice that helps folks learn, by design. DESIGN+ learning experiences range from leadership academies, 1:1 coaching, immersive workshops, user research and more. At the heart of it all is helping folks reveal new perspectives about their customers, themselves and their teams while putting their learnings into action. Before DESIGN+ Emily was deep into sparking big change in large, multinational organizations. She served as Design Officer at 3M and the Director of Innovation Learning at Johnson Controls - both roles hadn't existed prior. She had the most fun coaching internal startups and building new to the organization capabilities both in human centered design and design functions from scratch. She earned a master’s in Industrial Design from Arizona State University and a bachelor’s in Journalism from the University of Kansas. She was the first Designer in Residence at Stanford’s d.school in 2017 and presently works with clients across industries, students at Stanford and is always working on maximizing time in the Airstream with her partner, their teenager and her sweet pup, Beatrice.
Emily Callaghan
Founder of Design+, Design Coach
