Josh Silverman

Josh Silverman

– My purpose is to help you discover your purpose.

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Designer, entrepreneur, educator, optimist — thirty years connecting people with opportunities.

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About Josh

Founder & CEO, PeopleWork Partners, bringing a humane lens to design recruiting & leadership coaching. Connecting emerging leaders in design, eng, and product with roles at Target, Cisco, Netflix, OpenAI, Articulate, and places you might not have heard of yet. Partnering with growing design teams on culture, critique, and operations, including with Sequoia Design Lab & Sutter Hill Ventures.

Former Chair of the Master of Interaction Design program at CCA (RIP). Global educator and guest lecturer. Founded the DesignOps practice inside Twitter’s Product Design team. Founded & led multiple chapters of AIGA, one of the oldest and largest networks in design.

In 1997 I founded Schwadesign, a lean & holacratic design business, where I curated and led diverse project teams for 20 years.`