Michael Held
VP Design at Steelcase
- Role
- Vice President Design at Steelcase
- Location
- Grand Rapids, MI, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Michael Held
I am an experienced global design leader, thinker and doer and love to build, inspire and work with diverse, multi-disciplinary teams. I am constantly exploring the future, prototyping and making ideas tangible as well as leading fast, iterative innovation processes. The future of work, mobility and collaboration are not just topics at work but the context for our explorations. My experience is broad, cross-functional throughout the whole product development cycle and I have a proven track record of successful design leadership across industries and geographies, including but not limited to people research, trend/market/data analysis, value proposition and business plan creation, product/interaction/communication and user experience design. I believe the key challenge for design today is not to tackle known opportunities for growth but to be curious, remain open and to accept responsibility for our work. Making ourselves uncomfortable and also radical ideas tangible help demonstrate potential for change. Without critical thinking and dialogue on choices there are no preferable futures.
Experience
Vice President Design
Apr 2022 — Present · Grand Rapids, MI, US
Leading Design globally across categories and brands.
Education
National College of Art & Design
Industrial Design
1999 — 2000
ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
Executive Master, DesignCulture
2002 — 2004
Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
Diplom, Industrial Design
1996 — 2001
Skills
- Information Design
- Contextual Inquiry
- Concept Generation
- User Interface
- Human Computer Interaction
- Strategy
- Interaction Design
- Product Design
- Design Strategy
- Brand Development
- Management
- Sketching
- Rapid Prototyping
- Industrial Design
- Experience Design
- Concept Design
- Visual Communication
- Ethnography
- Packaging
- User Scenarios
- User Experience
- Marketing Strategy
- Usability Engineering
- User Experience Design
- User Research
- Design Thinking
- Strategic Design
- Consumer Insight
- Design Management
- Concept Development
- Paper Prototyping
- Service Design
- Concept Art
- Heuristic Evaluation
- Consumer Marketing
- User-Centered Design
- Persona
- Marketing Communications
- Innovation Management
- Product Marketing
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