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My Leadership
Philosophy

Embody Empathy

Set aside my assumptions and connect. I approach leadership by listening and creating awareness of individual perspectives.

Remove Noise

Refreshing design that is easy to use or pleasant to look at. I am comfortable navigating complexity, risk and trade-offs to make rapid and clear decisions, so the vision can come to life. 

Stay Curious

“And what else?” I find myself asking this question often. Forever learning about people, reading about my craft and listening to users. I ask questions to reframe problems.

Embrace Uncertainty

The creative process is never a straight line. Tech and design, always changing, and so I embrace uncertainity. I take complexity and iterate until I come to a delightful solution

Build Connections

I develop meaningful connections and working relationships with individuals. I develop my emotional intelligence and practice listening skils to further deepen connections.

A Vibe

Individuals seek a cultural fit and a team that aligns with their values. I aim to create an environment where creativity thrives. I model healthy and productive working behaviours.

Love Notes

Tiana is compassionate and demonstrated strong leadership skills as Manager, UX and Design. Part of that is her willingness to look outside of herself and make those around her better is the most valuable contribution she is making. 

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N. Patel, Engineering Manager

Tiana’s leadership has been instrumental to the development of design and ux at Corus. She always puts her team’s needs first, making sure we’re able to perform our best and produce excellent work. A true example of, “Thinking Beyond and Show We Care”.

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P. Dos Santos, UX Researcher

Tiana has done an exceptional job building a strong Design + UX team community. Be it online team review/critique meetings, team collaboration sessions and even in person meet-ups, the team energy has never been better. This is so important as we continue to work remotely. She has been instrumental in expanding our corporate UX culture by initiating our new UX Research team. In short order, this new team has produced extensive user research findings which translate into essential product feature enhancements.

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A. Davies, Director, UX + Product

Tiana is a delight to work with — inspiring, insightful and as passionate about learning and changing as she is about quality of work. She raises the bar for the department and our stakeholders and colleagues across the company. Asking and explaining if we can do better and how, and seeking out the expertise needed to grow ourselves and our business. 
She has hired the talent to make it happen, mentored and maintained that talent, while educating and evangelizing the benefit of user-researched focus decision making across the company.

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M. Carter, Product Manager

Tiana has shown so much support and enthusiasm in all the work that I do. She has truly gone above & beyond to keep our UX team engaged. I’ve had a blast doing the UX Understanding activities! Thank you so much for being an amazing leader, mentor, and ally.

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N. Le, Product Designer

Tiana hired me and assisted with my onboarding. She was supportive every step of the way and I’m glad I have the opportunity to work for someone so open minded and enthusiastic.

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F. Cicek, Sr. UX Researcher

Contact

connect: tianagagic [at] gmail dot com

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