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Nicole "PxL VxN" Stephan Smith

Nicole "PxL VxN" Stephan Smith

Cado Consulting CEO + Video Game Executive Producer Creating neuro-inclusive Fortune 500 teams! "PxL Vxn"

Portland, Oregon, United States

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International speaker, mentor and leadership trainer.
Currently Nicole is Executive Producer at a AAA global video game studio, overseeing all creative and development goals for new games worldwide for 50M+ players.

For 15 years, Nicole's led digital transformations of small to Fortune 100 teams embracing iterative delivery between development, design, and business through design thinking, and creative sketch collaboration, bringing agility to video gaming and beyond.

With her tech leadership career extending beyond in video games, Nicole's held many product development roles such as team coach, product owner, product manager, delivery manager, enterprise business agility coach, and more.

She believes in gracefully challenging the old way of “how we do things” to visualize and connect varied personalities and backgrounds, learning styles, and neuro-divergent teams for increased harmony, product focus, and sustainable output.

Nicole has several IC-Agile and Scrum certifications, previously on the PAT for both organizations and currently is completing her Expert-level coaching certification from IC-Agile. Nicole has spoken at several Agile20xx conferences, LEAN Agile Scotland, Scrum events in South Africa, and more, receiving high reviews each time.

In her spare time Nicole mentors aspiring video game producers and program managers while teaching game design and creative production.

Area of Expertise

  • Arts
  • Business & Management
  • Humanities & Social Sciences
  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Media & Information

Oodles of Doodles: Contain, Explain, and Align Complex Ideas with Simple Drawings

Ever find yourself frustrated by repeating the same thing after a meeting or scrum event? Do you or your teams get stuck in excessive ideation? Would you like to listen better and help others also engage with the topics being discussed?

* If so, this session is for you! *

With the constant overwhelm of discussions with big ideas, complex options, and countless meeting notes and action items, where to put all of it? AND in a way that people will remember and actually engage with?

Learn how to transform and innovate your meetings, facilitation, engagement and retention, and critical decisions beyond a ten-page notes document by creating your own doodle book to include a broader range of learning styles for increased efficacy.

Join this fun, interactive session (for all agile and creative skill-levels) for new ways to re-engage teams, reinvent your meetings based on learning styles, and reduce repetition through an easy visual vocabulary of sketch thinking to capture big ideas with simple drawings.

This session is like Bob Ross finding a Blues Clues notebook - drawing for the non-drawers in a safe space with no mistakes, just happy little trees of creativity. Leave with a doodle-book of visual shortcuts and revised meeting templates to use immediately with your newfound creativity!

Regional Scrum Gathering® Cape Town 2024 Sessionize Event

February 2024 Cape Town, South Africa

Nicole "PxL VxN" Stephan Smith

Cado Consulting CEO + Video Game Executive Producer Creating neuro-inclusive Fortune 500 teams! "PxL Vxn"

Portland, Oregon, United States

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