• 👋 Hi, I'm Casey Alexander Gollan!
  • I am a collaborative leader with a decade of experience building organizations, transforming operations, and growing communities at the intersection of technology, art and design, and education.
  • 💼 I currently work in Research Operations as Project Manager for Insights + Data & Technology at IBM.
  • 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 at the Vienna Biennale, V&A Museum, and ArkDes.
    • 👨‍🎨 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.
    • 💻 As a designer and technologist,
      • I publish
        • was selected to participate in Triple Canopy’s inaugural Networked Publishing Intensive,
      • and write.
        • my writing has been published by Rhizome at The New Museum.
    • 📚 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,
      • design ops,
        • DesignOps: Scaling UX Design and User Research with Nielsen Norman Group,
      • history of capitalism,
        • Economic Methods for Historians Workshop (a.k.a. History of Capitalism Summer Camp) at Cornell University ILR School,
      • feminist business,
        • PathMinding: Get Aligned + Accountable in Your Feminist Business with C.V. Harquail,
      • sociocracy,
        • The Theory and Practice of Sociocracy in Cooperatives with Sociocracy For All,
      • anti-racism,
        • Real Talk: Communication Strategies for a White Anti-Racist Welcome Wagon with AORTA (Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance),
      • remote work,
        • How to Manage a Remote Team by Gitlab,
      • values,
        • A Humble Laboratory - Running a Lab Based on Your Values by CLEAR Lab (Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research),
      • democratic management,
        • Democratic Management Skills with The Democracy at Work Institute,
      • non-violent communication,
        • Introduction to Nonviolent Communication with NYCNVC,
      • decentralized organizing,
        • Patterns for Decentralized Organizing with The Hum,
      • decision-making,
        • Cooperative Decision-Making with Loomio Cooperative and Round Sky Solutions,
      • agile and scrum,
        • Intro to Agile and Scrum with General Assembly,
      • participatory governance,
        • vTaiwan Open Consultation & Participation Officers Training with g0v,
      • publishing,
        • New School Publishing Institute,
      • people management,
        • People Management Intensive with Anne Libby,
      • and I am still always looking to learn something new.
  • Here's how to reach me by
    • email
    • linkedin
    • twitter
  • and where (else) to find me:
    • my wiki
    • medium
  • 🪨 * p.s. About the rocks. These are the "Monument to Finnish Sisu". 🇫🇮
    • 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". (This means that there isn’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 has often been described as similar to "grit" or "equanimity" but — I love this part — with a “grimmer quality of stress management.”