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"Innovator, artist, protagonist, activist, and positive provocateur, Maria Giudice has pursued a vision of intelligent, elegant, people-centered design throughout her professional life. Her grasp of the pragmatic, the authentic, and the essential have kept her at the forefront of design and business for over thirty years. When Facebook acquired Hot Studio, a design agency, founder Maria Guidice felt some sense of validation. For some, design is an after-thought. The acquisition sent a message to companies all over, ""Design is strategic. It's not just execution."" Her expertise lies in fostering a vision and bringing people together to execute it. She knows how to overcome team silos and lead with influence instead of authority. Researcher, strategist, idea generator, and alliance builder: Christopher Ireland started her career with the notion that businesses could benefit from a better understanding of people and culture. Her ability to create simple explanations of complex human behavior and to translate those insights into effective design and development strategies attracted clients from both technology and consumer goods companies, including Microsoft, Apple, Pepsi, Levis, GM and more. As cofounder and CEO of Cheskin, a firm that pioneered design research in Silicon Valley, Christopher and her partners had ringside seats to unrivaled feats of creation, innovation, and reinvention. Beginning in the 1990s, she led teams exploring topics like how trends move through the teen population, how music relates to mood, the history of residential architectural styles, the power of play, the cultural and behavioral differences of girls and boys, the emerging culture of ""cool"" in China, the development of trust online, and the meaning of color around the globe-to name just a few. She and her partners sold Cheskin in 2007, and walked away with their sanity mostly intact. Christopher is a coauthor of Rise of the DEO: Leadership by Design and China's New Culture of Cool. She received an MBA from UCLA and currently teaches leadership and design strategy courses for Stanford University's Continuing Studies Program. Kat Holmes, named one of Fast Company's ""Most Creative People in Business"" in 2017, is founder of Kata, a design firm with the mission of advancing inclusive product development. She served as the Principal Director of Inclusive Design at Microsoft from 2014 to 2017, and led that company's executive program for inclusive product innovation. In 2018, Holmes joined Google and continues to advance inclusive development for some of the most influential technologies in the world. Amanda Troop is an actor and improvisor, and started out on stage at age eleven. Along with her work in TV and film, Amanda has been in nearly 100 national ad campaigns and commercials. Amanda's love of cartoons and audiobooks led her to the world of voice-over. Her audiobooks include Hard Girls, by J. Robert Lennon, Go the Distance, by Jen Calonita, The Rehearsals, by Annette Christie, Good Hope Road, by Lisa Wingate, Desire Lines, by Christina Baker Kline, and Saving Each Other, by Victoria Jackson and Ali Guthy. Her animation work includes Maggie Sawyer in The Death of Superman, Gladys Windsmere in the Batman Unlimited films Animal Instinct and Monster Mayhem, Jordy Defective on the indie web series Box Peek, the entire witch coven in Gendy Tartakovsky's Primal, and most recently as Eunice the Unicycle on Disney's Firebuds. As the ""weird noises gal"" Amanda has given voice to the Zombie Queen in Army of the Dead, spoken an invented Atlantean language for Zack Snyder's Justice League, and hacked up a hairball as Spider-Cat in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Amanda has used improvisation as a vital tool throughout most of her career, including on-camera work on Bobcat Goldthwait's Misfits and Monsters, a two-year campaign for Chevrolet, and in creating several fully improvised films with her improv and production team, Ripley Improv. Her video game credits include Sophia in Wylde Flowers, Irene Lew in Dead or Alive Dimensions and in Ninja Garden 3, Loosum Hagar in Rage, Gulo in Rage 2, Horizon Zero Dawn, Lego Dimensions, and Final Fantasy VII Remake. Her recent TV appearances include Hot Date, Bobcat Goldthwait's Misfits & Monsters, a recurring role on the cult hit show Wilfred, Bones, Childrens Hospital, and more. Amanda is also a distance runner, native plant enthusiast, avid reader, HEMA swordfighting novice, excellent home cook, and a warrior mom."

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