BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CoDesign Collaborative - ECPv6.6.4.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:CoDesign Collaborative X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://codesigncollaborative.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for CoDesign Collaborative REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260224T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260224T124500 DTSTAMP:20260509T090440 CREATED:20260202T160936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T184115Z UID:33550-1771934400-1771937100@codesigncollaborative.org SUMMARY:CoDesign LIVE: Better Together with Dr. Tracy Brower\, PhD DESCRIPTION:CoDesign LIVEBetter Together: Designing Your Work-Life for Connection\, Community\, and Belonging\nJoin us for a virtual lightning talk with Dr. Tracy Brower\, PhD\, MM\, MCRW\, and Author\, Critical Connections\, The Secrets to Happiness at Work and Bring Work to Life.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join CoDesign Collaborative and Dr. Tracy Brower\, PhD\, MM\, MCRW\, and Author\, Critical Connections\, The Secrets to Happiness at Work\, and Bring Work to Life for Better Together: Designing Your Work-Life for Connection\, Community and Belonging\, a virtual lighting talk on February 24\, at 12pm ET / 9am PT. \nWe are in the midst of a wellbeing crisis with loneliness at record highs and the decline of social skills\, friendship\, and community. But we have the opportunity to nurture and rebuild relationships. In this virtual lightning talk\, Dr. Brower will discuss what belonging (really) means and how to design your work-life for meaning through critical connections\, focusing on pragmatic approaches and effective strategies. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n About Dr. Tracy Brower:Dr. Tracy Brower is a PhD sociologist studying happiness\, work-life fulfillment and the future of work. She is the author of three books\, Critical Connections\, The Secrets to Happiness at Work and Bring Work to Life. She is the vice president of workplace insights with Steelcase and a senior contributor to Forbes and Fast Company. Tracy’s work has been translated into 25 languages\, and her TEDx talk has been viewed 8.6 million times. In addition\, she is an award-winning speaker with over 25 years of experience working with global clients to achieve business results. Tracy is on the advisory board for Kids Food Basket and for the Co-Design Collaborative. In addition\, she is a coach and advisor for the Center for Leadership at Hope College and an advisor to the Michigan State University Master of Industrial Mathematics Program. She is an award-winning faculty member CoreNet Global and for Hacking HR. Tracy’s work has been featured on CBS News\, TEDx\, The Wall Street Journal\, Work-Life Balance in the 21st Century (book)\, Globe and Mail (Canada)\, InsideHR (Australia)\, HR Director (UK)\, T3N (Germany)\, Morning Wave in Busan (South Korea)\, Real Estate Review Journal\, Fortune\, Inc. Magazine\, HBR (France)\, multiple podcasts and more. Tracy holds a PhD in Sociology\, a Master of Management in Organizational Culture\, and a Master of Corporate Real Estate with a workplace specialization. You can find her on LinkedIn\, X\, TikTok\, Instagram\, Goodreads\, Unsplash (photography)\, or at tracybrower.com. You can sign up for Tracy’s mailing list here and Tracy’s LinkedIn Newsletter\, Connecting the Dots\, here. \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tuesday\, February 24\, 2026\n12–12:45 pm ET / 9–9:45am PT\nVirtual Lightning Talk\n \n \n \n \n \n Registration is required. \nFREE for Members\, Partners & Students!Email the Membership team for help with the promo code. \n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Dr. Tracy BrowerAuthor\, Critical Connections\, The Secrets to Happiness at Work and Bring Work to LifeVice President of Workplace Insights\, Steelcase \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Become a member to attend special events free of charge\, and get Unfold Magazine mailed twice a year.\nMembership starts at just $5/month.\n \n Join URL:https://codesigncollaborative.org/event/live-better-together/ CATEGORIES:Lightning Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://codesigncollaborative.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Critical-Connections-angle-cover.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260225T123000 DTSTAMP:20260509T090440 CREATED:20260202T175006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T184249Z UID:33558-1772020800-1772022600@codesigncollaborative.org SUMMARY:CoDesign LIVE | Things Become What you Call Them: Writing For Design DESCRIPTION:CoDesign LIVE\nThings Become What You Call Them: Writing For Design\nJoin Mike Mooney for a virtual lightning talk that spotlights writing as a discipline that permeates the work of design-driven teams.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Tune into CoDesign LIVE on February 25 at 12 pm ET / 9am PT for a virtual lightning talk with Mike Mooney\, Principal of Meant LLC\, on Writing For Design. Too often\, designers treat writing as a supporting skill—something already mastered and secondary to “real” design work. But inside interdisciplinary teams\, writing quietly does far more: it shapes strategy\, aligns stakeholders\, names problems\, and makes decisions durable. \nThis lightning talk reframes writing as a design discipline in its own right. Beyond copywriting or AI harvesting\, Mike explores how design thinking principles—prototyping\, constraints\, structure\, and collaboration—enlighten written work. In a world where content is everywhere\, thoughtful writing stands out. How might approaching story crafting through a design lens add perspective to your writing style? \n\n \n \n \n \n \n About Mike Mooney:\nMike is a writer and a strategist who operates at the intersection of brand strategy\, verbal branding\, and experience design to elevate brand storytelling. As a writer and principal at Meant\, Mike gives voice to brand\, marketing and design strategies in ways that help make hard things simpler\, new things more engaging\, and nuanced things more discoverable. His work building communications platforms for new-to-the-world products\, services and technologies includes engagements with market leaders and challengers\, as well as early and growth-stage startups\, across the healthcare\, consumer electronics\, industrial\, consumer\, high- tech and other sectors. Mike founded Meant in 2018 after leaving Catapult Thinking\, the interdisciplinary design consultancy he co-founded in Boston in 1998. Prior to Catapult he worked as a writer and information designer at Fitch (formerly Fitch RS\, but originally RichardsonSmith+)\, where he had an epiphany regarding creative writing as a catalyst for interdisciplinary design thinking. \n  \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Wednesday\, February 25\, 2026\n12–12:30 pm ET / 9–9:30am PT\nVirtual Lightning Talk\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Registration is required. \nFREE for Members\, Partners & Students!\nEmail the Membership team for help with the promo code.\n \n Register Now\n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Michael Mooney\nFounder & Principal\, Senior Branding & Messaging Strategist\nMeant \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Become a member to attend special events free of charge\, and get Unfold Magazine mailed twice a year.\nMembership starts at just $5/month.\n \n Join URL:https://codesigncollaborative.org/event/live-writing-for-design/ CATEGORIES:Lightning Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://codesigncollaborative.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Inspirational_Leadership.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR