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I have a lot of content, creative projects, community engagements, and brainstorming workshops to share with you here. Browse and book with me today.
Metropolis, all players photo shoot
In my book, "Metropolis", we did a, "photo shoot", where we put all our players together to show how you can build up an interesting set...
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Vision Architecture Blueprint
I use visuals in my Vision Architecture workshop and templates I've created to help folks during their brainstorming phases so they feel...
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Metropolis, pick your transportation
In my book, "Metropolis", we offer ideas about which modes of transportation you're going to use in your story because we need to...
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Metropolis, pick your public sector players, or persona
In my book, "Metropolis", we feature a few public sector, or government, players to get folks thinking about how the whole story might...
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Metropolis, pick your players, or persona
In my book, "Metropolis", we feature a list of starter characters folks can choose from the help illustrate a story they're thinking of...
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W5 + How: Who, What, Where, When, Why and How
This is the baseline of all my workshops. It's from W5+H we capture our variables and can start to figure out where we are, where we...
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Metropolis, a hypothetical city, where things can happen.
In my first book, "Metropolis", we illustrate critical components that are part of every story set up. Those elements are: location...
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The Failure Pattern
I've been consulting with companies in a lot of different industries, using different technologies, and different strategies to achieve...
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2017 - Stephanie in Metropolis
I started pulling myself and my friends into Metropolis, the imagined city where everything is as it should be, and somehow it freed us...
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Coloring: Amelia Earhart
As I was coming up with inspiring concepts for Vision Architecture workshops for folks to get ideas about what they'd really love to be...
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Metropolis: Black Car
This was the first chapter in my book called, "Metropolis". I featured graphic novel storyboards that told stories of how things could...
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www.stephaniehayden.com Updates
I finally decided to spend time gathering all of my work and putting it online. Note, I've had my stephaniehayden.com website since...
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2013 - Oklahoma City
The super cool Oklahoma State Troopers allowed me to come spend some time listening to what their daily lives are like and the insane...
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1976 - My dad & I at Disneyland
My dad was my best friend and taught me a lot. He died a few years after this picture, from a heart attack, when he was 39 years old....
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2019 - Melrose Deep East Oakland
I stayed in AirBnBs for about 2.5 years throughout the 146 micro-communities in Oakland to try to meet people and see what they really...
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2009 - Jumping instead of flying
I was flying helicopters a lot, then some pilot friends took me up and I got into a fixed-wing license too. I started thinking it might...
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2021 - Ankle Surgery
Man, this was a rough year, and during COVID lockdown. I'm so lucky to have such amazing neighbors in Deep East Oakland who brought me...
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2022 - Zoom Meeting Hell
I was working at Gap Inc. in San Francisco when COVID hit and we all started working from home. I started my next contract at Intuit,...
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2009 - Idyllwild Reunion
I spent some time catching up with friends from Idyllwild at a big reunion we put together. There's something amazing about getting back...
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2020 - East Oakland Apocalypse, Not only COVID
Brutal. Every. Day. This is not a filter, it's what the air was Sept. 9, 2020 in Oakland.
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2016 - Chicago Nov. 7
I started doing a lot of public speaking on future technologies and how we need to creativity to design our way into more connected...
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2016 - Vision Architecture
I started incorporating illustrations in my work engaging youth in becoming the architects of their own future cities. This was some of...
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2007 - Flying
The 2000s were when I met my husband in Chicago (now ex-husband), we moved back to the Bay Area, I traveled a ton for a software job and...
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2000 - Leaving Chicago
I went to college in London, San Francisco, and Chicago during these years studying psychology, architecture, art, and technology. I got...
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