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

Previously, he was Chair of the Master of Interaction Design program at CCA (RIP), and has taught and guest lectured around the globe. Founded the DesignOps practice inside Twitter’s Product Design team. Founded & led multiple chapters of AIGA, the oldest & largest network in design.

In 1997 he founded Schwadesign, a holacratic design studio, where he curated & led diverse project teams for 20 years.