Hiring Beyond 2025: Breaking the Algorithm, Beating the Bots, and Building Better Teams

UXDX USA 2025: Main Stage Panel Discussion with Kelly Bowker, Mrinali Kamath, and Ryan Leffel

Hiring today is broken—candidates are getting filtered out by AI before a human even sees their application, and hiring managers are often relying on outdated methods that don’t assess the full potential of a candidate. This discussion will tackle hiring challenges from both sides of the table:

• How candidates can stand out despite AI screening and generic recruitment pipelines.

How to Lead High-Performing Teams

UXDX USA 2024: In-person Workshop

Unleash your leadership potential by building corporate teams the athletic way. In this workshop you’ll uncover the parallels of building athletic teams and corporate teams. By joining, you’ll walk away with:

• Activities to figure out your leadership style, regardless of your current or desired managerial position

• Practical tips and techniques to cultivate a high-performing team, foster motivation, and drive positive results

• Tools to gain clarity on the skills needed in your team to drive business success

Everything is Communicated Not Comprehended

UXDX Community: Continuous Delivery 2023

In a world that is constantly vying for our attention, it’s becoming harder and harder to recognize, acknowledge, or comprehend the multitude of messages. We will play a game that helps you figure out how to determine what to pay attention to, act on, and pivot away from. While the discussion will be focused on the professional design environment and projects, you can apply the insights to your personal lives; hobbies, pets, partners, living spaces, and more.

What’s Luck Got to Do with It?

Fail Faster: Infobeans podcast

Kelly Bowker, Director of Experience Design, joins us as she explores the role of luck in professional success. Kelly emphasizes that luck is not only about chance, but it can also involve favorable circumstances and events that work for or against individuals. She highlights the importance of self-reflection, being aware of one’s strengths and limitations, and recognizing what one has control over. She shares personal experiences and insights on managing teams, she stresses the need to prioritize internal teams for effective job performance and regularly assess one’s job alignment with personal values and potential. Kelly is reflecting on how she becomes a part of someone else’s story and describes how people are always seeking the next shiny object and how the expectation of delight decreases over time as things become normal. She brings to surface, how humans crave change, even while also desiring stability.

What is Design? In Dialog with Kelly Bowker

YouX: The Universal Lens Podcast

In our second installment of the “In Dialogue” series, we are delighted to welcome Kelly Bowker as our guest. She will be discussing a wide range of topics related to what it means to be a designer in today’s ever-changing professional landscape.

Designing for a Better World: The Role of Ethical Design Leadership

What IF? Tech Circus: Virtual Conference Panel with Kelly Bowker, Katrina Dargel, Angelina Severino, and Janitra Taylor

Panel discussion:

• How to create products, services, and teams that are ethical and inclusive.

• Challenges of leading ethically and the potential of ethical design to make a positive impact on the world.

• Advocating for and enabling a diverse and ethical culture helps businesses and individuals grow.