Meet Christina…
An established thought leader in Silicon Valley, Christina is a “curious human” with a serious resume. Her past work includes re-designs and initial product offerings with LinkedIn, MySpace, Zynga, Yahoo! and others, as well as founding three startups, an online design magazine called Boxes and Arrows, and co-founding the Information Architecture Institute. She is currently a Lecturer at Stanford in the HCI group in the Computer Science department.
Christina teaches worldwide on the intersection of human innovation and high-performing teams. She uses the power of story to connect with audiences and readers through speaking and her Amazon category-bestselling books. Christina’s work is personable, insightful, knowledgeable, and engaging.
Her books include Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web, Pencil Me In, and The Team that Managed Itself. Her bestselling book, now in its second edition, is a business fable called Radical Focus. It tackles the OKR movement through the powerful story of Hanna and Jack’s struggling tea startup. When the two receive an ultimatum from their only investor, they must learn how to employ OKRs and radical focus to get the right things done.
Writing
An Amazon bestseller in management science, Wodtke authors books to connect real world challenges to new ways of thinking. Her latest book, Radical Focus, uses the power of story to bring fresh new insight to managing by objectives and key results (OKR).
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Speaking
Wodtke connects with audiences worldwide on topics as diverse as design thinking, crafting user experience, and how to make change actually happen. She pulls from her experience at such companies as LinkedIn, Myspace, Zynga, and Yahoo! to deliver new insights and craft a compelling experience for her audience.
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Teaching
As a “curious human” and gifted teacher, Wodtke teaches business to designers and design to businesses at conferences, universities, and boardrooms. She can be found regularly at Stanford Continuing Education and the California College of the Arts, and connects the dots for CEOs, designers and students worldwide.
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