Matt Mayfield
Strategy & Innovation Leader | Integrating Technology and Human Insight to Shape Offerings and Drive Execution
- Role
- Associate Dean, Academics & Administration at Institute of Design at Illinois Institute Of Technology
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Matt Mayfield
Product and design executive with over 20 years of experience leading innovation, product management, and organizational transformation. I bring enterprise discipline and startup agility to turn uncertainty into offerings that deliver measurable results.I work across corporate, academic, and consulting environments, bridging execution with research and education to turn vision into market outcomes.At Illinois Tech\'s Institute of Design, where I serve as Associate Dean, I\'ve led the transformation of a top graduate design school integrating technology, business strategy, and human-centered design. My work focuses on curriculum development, revenue diversification, operational optimization, and positioning the institution for sustained growth.Previously, as Senior Director at Motorola, I identified $500M in new product opportunities within six months and launched a cross-functional discovery framework that reshaped how the company explored adjacent markets and innovation.I see leadership as translation; connecting executive priorities to execution, research to strategy, and ideas to outcomes. I build roadmaps that align user insight, technical capability, and business value while keeping teams accountable and motivated.Core competencies: Product strategy | Digital transformation | Human-centered design | Innovation leadership | Cross-functional collaboration | Strategic planningPositioned to drive innovation at the intersection of business strategy, design, and technology.
Experience
Associate Dean, Academics & Administration at Institute of Design
Illinois Institute Of Technology
Aug 2017 — Present · Chicago, IL, US
Modernizing a leading graduate design curriculum and delivery for an AI-augmented world in a consensus-driven environment where the institution\'s reputation depends on not breaking what already works.• Redesigned MS in Strategic Design Leadership to integrate product management, systems design, and emerging tech • Rebuilt MDes curriculum around human-centeredness within algorithmic conformity and multi-system complexity • Established new performance metrics and accountability structures across academic operations • Led revenue diversification and digital transformation planning with university leadership
Education
University of Chicago
MS, Computer Science
Institute of Design (ID)
BS Design, Industrial and Product Design
Skills
- Mobile Devices
- Market Research
- Idea Generation
- Consumer Electronics
- Leadership
- Concept Development
- Management
- User Research
- Strategy Development
- Product Innovation
- Applications Software Development
- Ideation
- Marketing Research
- Experience Design
- Strategy
- Design Thinking
- New Product Ideation
- Service Design
- Product Management
- User Experience Design
- User Experience
- Rapid Prototyping
- Industrial Design
- Research Design
- Contextual Research
- Ethnography
- Team Facilitation
- Customer Insight
- Information Visualization
- Interaction Design
- Product Design
- Higher Education
- User-Centered Design
- Telecommunications
- Product Development
- Design Strategy
- Segmentation
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