Vice President of Design, Procter & Gamble
Emily is Vice President of Design, Innovation and Global Capability at Procter & Gamble where she has provided design leadership for 30+ years. Emily has led global design for multiple billion-dollar businesses in the US, Singapore, and Switzerland. Emily represents Design on P&G’s Innovation Leadership Team, and in 2017, she was recognized as a P&G Brand Master, an honorary given to less than 1% of P&G leaders. Emily has initiated and championed design programs that transformed P&G into a leader in design and design thinking—building “design into the DNA” at P&G.
Emily was the first woman industrial designer at P&G. She is committed to building diversity and leads efforts to increase female representation in ID. Emily has worked to foster inclusive environments for women. In recent years, P&G has doubled the number of women leading ID studios and the number of female co-ops and new hires joining P&G.
The Confidence Conundrum
Emily will share her personal journey of confidence, starting as the only woman in industrial design at P&G and ending with representing Design on billion-dollar businesses and on P&G’s Innovation Leadership team. She will share real-world stories of challenge, frustration, and general ridiculousness that helped her harness her own belief in herself.
With this, Emily will share her learning and observations from managing and mentoring women and men in her 30-plus years at P&G, and recently working with women as an executive leadership coach. She will share common themes and pitfalls, as well as unique issues faced by women with confidence.
Her talk will cover what confidence is, and what it is not, as well as why confidence is critical in a professional setting. She’ll move onto why confidence can feel both difficult and elusive and share real-life strategies to help you experiment with, prototype, and grow your confidence.
In this session, you will learn:
