Nick Cochran

About Nick Cochran

My mission is to help people to think creatively, to work collaboratively, and to lead compassionately.My passion and my expertise converge in the areas of design practice leadership, design strategy consulting, community building, and teaching & mentoring.My personal values are:* Compassion - care with action* Clarity - simple, relevant, cohesive* Balance - family first, then work hard* Details - they matter, people notice* Connection - people, ideas* Craft - mastery is powerfulMy current focus is on leading a world-class design strategy consultancy and design operations team at ExxonMobil. We help business leaders solve complex, entrenched, cross-organizational problems by using a human-centered approach. We also enable and amplify the practice of design across the company through our design programs in the areas of strategy, operations, talent, and community.

Experience

1. Design Strategy Manager

   ExxonMobil

   Jan 2020 — Present

   Our Design Strategy team is an in-house design strategy consultancy that helps ExxonMobil business leaders to solve complex, entrenched, cross-organizational problems by applying a human-centered approach. We are also the hub of design programs that enable and amplify the practice of design across the company.

Education

• Baylor University

  BBA, Management Information Systems

  2001 — 2005

• Texas McCombs School of Business

  MBA

  2009 — 2011

Skills

• Process Improvement
• Management
• Ios Development
• E-Learning
• Testing
• Sharepoint
• Visio
• Requirements Analysis
• Web Development
• Business Analysis
• Swift
• Leadership
• Graphic Design
• Change Management
• Mobile Applications
• Troubleshooting
• User Experience
• Mobile Application Development
• Business Process Improvement
• Analysis
• Project Management
• Petroleum