Thomas Stat

About Thomas Stat

I focus on helping companies identify, seize, operationalize, and monetize valuable product, service, and experience opportunities and position themselves for sustainable success. In a world filled with consultants that rarely have the experience, approach, or mindset to add real value, I take the \"con\" out of con-sulting. I\'m a RE-sultant.I\'m considered a Trusted Advisor, Perspective Expander and Re-Framer, Content Synthesizer, End-user Empath, Opportunity Sleuth, Storyteller, Collaborator, Future-maker, and Rain-maker.Skills: Research, Data Acquisition, Data Analytics, and Insight Development, Design Strategy, Strategic Design, Mission and Culture Leadership, P&L Manager, M&A Guide and Facilitator, Brand and Communications Development, Team Leadership and Collaboration Coach, Technology Integration, Digital Transformation, and Product Development. I’m open to collaborating, adding value, and creating impact in an advisory role, as a member of an investment team, collaborator, board member, mentor, reviewer, or trusted advisor.My current focus is on AI, AR, and XR in immersive and experiential platforms, LBE, retail, hospitality, and education, and using AI to understand sentiment in food service for seniors, and building a new digital commons for civic (and civil) discourse. While I have a breadth of knowledge and range of experience in many industries and across the conception and design of products, platforms, services, and environments, I believe my greatest value is what I don’t know. I value asking new questions rather than applying old answers. I prefer to seek bigger opportunities rather than merely solving immediate problems. I value radical collaboration, rapid prototyping, and failing early to succeed sooner. I value doing the right things before doing things right.I see the world of possibility, and what may seem like impossibility, through the lens of human behavior. I understand the synergy, tensions, and interactions between usability, usefulness, viability, and feasibility. While new business models and new technologies often enable the future, the future almost always seems to be driven by deeply ingrained human needs and our fundamental needs for connection, interaction, and experience fueled by our innate empathy, curiosity, and optimism.I have no trademarked processes, no proprietary methodologies, no secret sauce, nor the need to recycle old work and old thinking. I bring energy, fresh perspectives, commitment, collaboration, humor, and a few better questions to everything I do.#OPEN

Experience

1. VP Innovation

   Morpheus Xr

   May 2023 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US

   Focused on the integration of AR, AI, and collaboration for the enterprise.

Education

• Purdue University

  Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering

• The Tatnall School

  Private School, High School Diploma

• Rhode Island School of Design

  B. Architecture, B. Arch.

• Rhode Island School of Design

  B.F.A., Fine Arts

• Boston University

  B.A., Behavioral Science/Social Psychology, Minor in Astrophysics

• Stanford University Graduate School of Business

  Marketing and Business Management - Executive MBA, Business & Marketing Administration

Skills

• User Research
• Entrepreneurship
• Public Speaking
• Rapid Prototyping
• Inter-Personal
• Strategy
• Workshop Design
• Creative Direction
• Innovation Management
• Innovation
• Professional Services
• Research Design
• Strategic Thinking
• Customer Service
• Concept Generation
• Design Workshops
• Thought Leadership
• Design Thinking
• Marketing
• Product Design
• Design Strategy
• Customer Relations
• Workshop Leader
• Account Management
• Workshop Facilitation
• Business Development
• Large Group Facilitation
• Business Strategy
• Service Design
• Ethnography
• Leadership
• Marketing Management
• Experience Design
• Product/Service Development
• Innovation Consulting
• Strategic Planning
• Relationship Development
• Workshop Development
• Product Development
• Product Innovation