๐ Hi, I'm Casey!Casey!Casey A.Alexander Gollan! I amam a collaborative leader with experiencea decade of experience building,building organizations, transforming,transforming operations, and growinggrowing communitiescommunities at the intersection of technology, art and design, and education. ๐ผ ๐จโ๐จ ๐ป ๐.๐ผ in my career,๐ผ I currently work in UX Research at IBMUX Research as Manager of Insights + Engagement at IBM and serve on the board of the global ResearchOps Community. Some previous highlights of my career have included: Figma,contributing to a pilot of continuous research at Figma, NYU,leading operations at New York University's AI Now Institute, SFPC,helping establish the School for Poetic Computation, Atavist,doing digital production and QA for multi-platform experimental publisher Atavist, OpenNews Source,copy editing a blog on data journalism in newsrooms for OpenNews Source, 20x200,working as a product designer and front-end developer for e-commerce innovator 20x200, and independent consulting.and running an independent design and technology consultancy whose work has been exhibited.exhibited at the Vienna Biennale, V&A Museum, and ArkDes. ๐จโ๐จ as an artist and educator,๐จโ๐จ In my work as an artist and educator, I've taught,taught at The Cooper Union, exhibited,exhibited at the Whitney Museum, been awarded a fellowship,been awarded a fellowship at The New School's Center for Art and Politics, and lectured.and lectured at Yale University and Between Bridges Galerie in Berlin. ๐ป as a designer and technologist,๐ป As a designer and technologist, I publishwas selected to participate in Triple Canopyโs inaugural Networked Publishing Intensive, and write.my writing has been published by Rhizome at The New Museum. ๐ and as a student.๐ I've studied art and design,art and design at The Cooper Union (where I received my Bachelor of Fine Arts), and...cooperatives,Platform Cooperatives Now with Mondragon University and The New School, and...design ops,DesignOps: Scaling UX Design and User Research with Nielsen Norman Group, and...history of capitalism,Economic Methods for Historians Workshop (a.k.a. History of Capitalism Summer Camp) at Cornell University ILR School, and...feminist business,PathMinding: Get Aligned + Accountable in Your Feminist Business with C.V. Harquail, and...sociocracy,The Theory and Practice of Sociocracy in Cooperatives with Sociocracy For All, and...anti-racism,Real Talk: Communication Strategies for a White Anti-Racist Welcome Wagon with AORTA (Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance), and...remote work,How to Manage a Remote Team by Gitlab, and...values,A Humble Laboratory - Running a Lab Based on Your Values by CLEAR Lab (Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research), and...democratic management,Democratic Management Skills with The Democracy at Work Institute, and...non-violent communication,Introduction to Nonviolent Communication with NYCNVC, and...decentralized organizing,Patterns for Decentralized Organizing with The Hum, and...decision-making,Cooperative Decision-Making with Loomio Cooperative and Round Sky Solutions, and...agile and scrum,Intro to Agile and Scrum with General Assembly, and...participatory governance,vTaiwan Open Consultation & Participation Officers Training with g0v, and...publishing,New School Publishing Institute, and...people management,People Management Intensive with Anne Libby, and...and I am still always looking to learn something new. Here's how to reach mereach me by email,email at hello@caseyagollan.com, linkedin,linkedin.com/in/casey-gollan, and twitter,twitter.com/caseyg, and where (else) to find me.find me at: my wikicag.wiki and medium.medium.com/@caseyg. ๐ชจ * p.s.๐ชจ * p.s. About the rocks. These are the "Monument to Finnish Sisu". ๐ซ๐ฎ"Monument to Finnish Sisu". ๐ซ๐ฎ As an anonymous internet user once asked, on a now defunct blogspot:"What is so compelling about this pile of rocks that would inspire me to look at this picture so many times on any given day?"Sisu is a word from the Finnish language that is "ekphrastically untranslatable"."ekphrastically untranslatable". (This means that there isnโt a word quite like it in the English language.)It stands for a combination of resilience, determination, making a plan and sticking to it, and continuing on against the odds.It stands for a combination of resilience, determination, making a plan and sticking to it, and continuing on against the odds. It has often been described as similar to "grit" or "equanimity" but โ I love this part โ with a โgrimmer quality of stress management.โ