chuck ruud

Strategy Designer, innovator & storyteller

I would love to help your organization design better business models, experiences and products. Feel free to reach out.

Publications:

• Awarded a grant from Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health and the white paper was published in Dec 2018.

LecTures:

• Guest lectured at Net Impact events, SCAD, Parsons School of Design, and Pratt Institute.

Keynotes & WorkshopS:

• Mad*Pow’s Tenth Annual Health Experience Design Conference, April 14-15, 2020 in Boston: Achieving Care Integration for Children with Medical Complexity: The Human-Centered Design Approach to Care Coordinatio

• Facilitated a Design thinking workshop for NYHRPS; Understanding of how and why to introduce design thinking in your organization and HR teams. May 2019; Ruud, C; Lupushor, S; Garcia, C.

• Facilitated a workshop on applying design thinking & systems thinking into Care Coordination at the New York State Public Health Association & NYSACHO annual conference, April 2019; Ruud C. Tahara D.

• Poster presentation: Pediatric Academic Societies May 5-8, 2018. Toronto, Canada. The Range of Care Coordination Needs of Children with Medical Complexity. Kuo, D. Ruud, C. and Tahara, D.

Podcast:

Evolution of Innovation; Co-hosted by Shaun Mader and Chuck Ruud. Empowering leaders to activate their innovation potential. (launching in September 2019) Guests include Tim Middleton from Havas People & John Lynn from Cela.

OTHER:

• Net Impact NYC chapter - Service Corp’s pro-bono consulting committee member, Consultant trainer, Mentor & Consultant.

• Co-Founded and was the chapter President of Pratt Institute's Net Impact Chapter (2015-16).

• At Pratt; I was part of a team that won a business plan competition for a new service experience that was presented to a venture capitalist.

• Shoes Master Magazine published an interview with my about my designs for the Japanese market while at Timberland.