๐Ÿ‘‹ 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. ๐Ÿ’ผ ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŽจ ๐Ÿ’ป ๐Ÿ“š.๐Ÿ’ผ in my career,๐Ÿ’ผ 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. ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŽจ as an artist and educator,๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŽจ 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. ๐Ÿ’ป as a designer and technologist,๐Ÿ’ป As a designer and technologist, I publishwas selected to participate in Triple Canopyโ€™s inaugural Networked Publishing Intensive, and write.my writing has been published by Rhizome at The New Museum. ๐Ÿ“š and as a student.๐Ÿ“š 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. ๐Ÿชจ * p.s.๐Ÿชจ * p.s. About the rocks. These are the "Monument to Finnish Sisu". ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ"Monument to Finnish Sisu". ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ 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 isnโ€™t 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 โ€œgrimmer quality of stress management.โ€

Monument to Finnish Sisu. Rocks are arranged into a large mound at the edge of a grassy plateau, overlooking fields, forests, and lakes, under a bright cloudy sky.