Chris Weldon

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ABOUT CHRIS WELDON

I am a design, content, and business strategist with 20+ years working in film, entertainment, marketing, and technology. I lead integrated strategy, design, content and production teams through the process of extracting meaningful patterns from masses of raw information and the application of unconventional thinking to create new ideas, narrative systems and immersive product experiences.My work is focused on the intersection of education and brand. People are creating and discovering new ways to interface with products and services, with software and hardware in their homes and in their hands. The challenge is that much of the value of these complex technologies is becoming more difficult to unlock in practice even while they become easier to use in theory, because they require novel or unfamiliar patterns of behavior. To learn these new behavior patterns (or to transfer existing patterns to new paradigms) requires education: branded lean-forward education that persists through the consumer and brand lifecycles, wherever and whenever the need arises. I strive to engage consumers with new and existing services and to leverage increasingly available data as AI evolves, in short, to connect machine learning with human learning. I have built courseware for academic institutions, educational products for enterprise software companies and educational marketing and product experiences for some of the leading brands of our time including Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Twitter, Salesforce and GoPro. My work passion is collaborative, expansive, creative thinking that leads to practical innovation. My life passions are sharing open spaces, real food, border crossings, jai alai, and double features with my family and friends. My secret passion is to include one fake life passion in my LinkedIn summary.