How many people should be in the sprint?
Design Sprints work best with 5–8 participants from across your organization — typically a product manager, designer, engineer, and key stakeholders. I'll help you build the right team before we start.
Where are sprints held?
Sprints can be held on-site at your location anywhere in the US, or run fully remotely via video. I'm based in Golden, Colorado and happy to travel. We'll figure out what format works best for your team during our kick-off call.
Can the sprint be customized for our team?
Absolutely. Every sprint is tailored to your specific challenge, team size, and industry context. I have deep experience in healthcare IT and can adapt exercises, examples, and facilitation style to match where your team is starting from.
Do we need to recruit our own test users?
You'll help identify who your target users are — I'll work with you in advance to ensure we have five customers lined up for Day 5 interviews. I can advise on recruitment if needed.
What does the team need to do before the sprint?
Very little. I'll send a short pre-sprint brief to review, and we'll have a kick-off call a week before to align on the challenge and team. That's it — I handle the rest.
Do you facilitate Design Sprints for healthcare and health IT teams?
Yes — healthcare and health IT is a specialty. With 20+ years in the industry, including work at ZOLL Medical, DaVita, and multiple health tech startups, I understand the unique pressures of healthcare product development: regulatory constraints, complex stakeholder environments, long sales cycles, and decisions that directly affect patient outcomes. Design Sprints are especially effective in this environment — they cut through the committee-driven decision-making that slows most healthcare organizations down and get you to validated answers fast.
Are you available for Design Sprints in Colorado and the Denver area?
Absolutely. I'm based in Golden, Colorado — right in the Denver metro — and available for on-site sprints throughout Colorado and the Denver area with no travel overhead. I also work with teams across the US and remotely.
Can't I just run the Design Sprint myself?
Technically, yes — the methodology is documented and the books are out there. But there's a meaningful difference between running a sprint and being fully present in one.
When someone on your team plays facilitator, they can't also be a full participant. They're watching the clock, managing the room, deciding when to move on, and handling logistics — all while trying to contribute ideas and make decisions about a problem they're close to. That's a lot to hold at once, and something usually gives.
A dedicated facilitator changes the dynamic entirely. Your team gets to focus completely on the problem. I keep the process moving, navigate the moments where group dynamics or internal politics threaten to stall progress, and make sure decisions actually stick — not just in the room, but after the week is over.
I also bring pattern recognition from running sprints across different teams and industries. I know where things tend to go sideways, how to adapt when they do, and how to push the group toward real decisions rather than comfortable non-answers. That's hard to replicate when it's your first one — or your fifth.
