NIXON, NATALIE | Philadelphia University

NATALIE W. NIXON, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Philadelphia University

Natalie Nixon is a hybrid thinker, comfortably synthesizing creative and analytical thought processes from design and business to arrive at innovative opportunities. A practitioner and researcher of design thinking, she has 15 years of experience as an educator on the secondary and university levels and worked in the fashion industry as an entrepreneurial hat designer as well as in apparel sourcing for The Limited Brands in Sri Lanka and Portugal. Nixon’s research and consulting interests are in integrative strategic design, experiential service design and applying strategies from the fashion industry to a range of sectors, using style as a competitive advantage in order to build brand distinction. She is certified by the National Charrette Institute at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design to lead charrette trainings; she uses the charrette methodology to lead ideation, opportunity finding and consensus building for a range of organizations. She earned a bachelor’s (cum laude) in anthropology and Africana studies (double major) from Vassar College, a master’s in global textile marketing from Philadelphia University and a doctorate in design management from the University of Westminster, London.

Session Title:
Designing Graduate Business Education

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