I turn* your problems into opportunities and solutions for impact-driven innovation.

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How can we work together?

How can we work together?

Making climate action a forethought in every business decision.

🍩 Reference to Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth.

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The 3 approaches I take to collaboratively build towards Net-Zero Emissions:

Partnerships

I connect with clients to build lasting trust.

  • Guide clients throughout their journey

  • Ensure alignment between stakeholders

  • Deliver clear & consistent communication

  • Manage and adapt achievable milestones

Storytelling

I make the complex easy to understand.

  • Conduct ethnographic / UX research

  • Synthesize key insights

  • Visualize systems and journeys

  • Craft compelling narratives / visions

Innovation

I co-create solutions to improve (eco)systems.

  • Design / simplify journeys and user-flows

  • Facilitate stakeholder / user workshops

  • Generate research-derived strategy

  • Envision future state roadmap

Case Study Highlights

Empowering data-driven leadership for Electricity Enterprise—cutting retrieval time by 40%

Driving revenue growth for Global Pallet Enterprise with ground-level customer insights —boosting sales by 9%

Elevating the Coach Experience—Strategic Roadmap for Product Innovation (Proposal)

Hear it from them!

Hear it from them!

  • "Emily is one of the most talented people I’ve worked with. She has a unique ability of simplifying complexity into simple visualizations that engage people and help them understand the information."


    — Nena Lara, Senior Manager at Deloitte Digital (formerly Doblin)

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Lil' bit about me~

Lil' bit about me~

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Emily Kao 🐮 高佳薇

Design Strategist, Relational Artist, People-Connector

Being interdisciplinary has been the cornerstone of my identity and practice—fusing ideas and methods from different contexts to solve problems and innovate.

Communities I’m part of: Creatives for Climate, Women and Climate, Allyship & Action

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Let’s start planting seeds of
radical change.