Why Stephanie?

Stephanie Lola is a passionate visionary and skilled coach who is accomplished at both creating, growing, and managing design teams across multiple projects and platform initiatives, as well as successfully evangelizing design systems and best practices. With a demonstrated ability to be influential throughout an organization, she uses a diplomatic and collaborative approach to drive strategy across an enterprise, converging creative, business, technical, and usability viewpoints.

As a talented senior leader with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, Stephanie is able to define the why and the how, synthesizing data from consumer insights, analytics, user research, and business requirements – providing effective leadership in the development of innovative and dynamic experiences. Stephanie's influence on the design of products or systems comes from her background in Psychology, giving an understanding of human behavior that is essential to experiencing a brand through the eyes of customers, and her dedication to mentoring rising design practitioners inspires her to share practical knowledge with others who have a passion to do the same.