Stephen is a design leader fueled by helping organizations rediscover the human side of business. For two decades, he’s been integrating Human-Centered Design across several Nestlé global businesses to enable innovation that drive external business results while shaping new cultural ways of working. He currently leads Shopper Innovation & Experience at Nestlé Purina North America including strategic direction over their U.S. HQ-based LAB9 Innovation Center in Saint Louis, Missouri.

He holds 17 patents, has guest lectured at Stanford, Chicago’s IIT Institute of Design, and COCABiz, and his work has been a featured in several publications including Global Village, EQ Quarterly, WDCast, the St. Louis Business Journal and IDSA. When he isn’t chasing his two kids around or trying to impress his wife, he enjoys the simple things in life like an ice-cold beer, catching fish, and making things.