Bria Alexander

" The next generation is going to be AI native, digitally literate with these tools almost from birth - Brittany. "

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" It’s energy management, not time management — listen to yourself rather than comparing your output to others. "

" Being true to our humanity and morality lets us better ourselves and our teammates. "

" We need standardized role definitions, not everyone is a manager just because they manage initiatives - Peter Bosma. "

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" A little color purple to start the day. Good morning. "

" Practical ops is about getting stuff done because it’s our job to scale the organizational ability to design and amplify the work of designers. "

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" Today we’re gonna be talking about researchers as organizational change makers. "

" Sponsor sessions are not sales pitches. They offer really high content very similar to the main conference. "

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" You will come away from this conference with so many artifacts from these talks you won’t miss anything. "

" You gotta write that charter to get clarity with your team. "

" The final panel will be grounded in your input from this summit — we want to hear from you in the FigJam link. "

" Even though we’re virtual, we are still a community and obligated to treat each other with kindness and respect. "

" You’re going to get the importance of empathy to the bottom line. "

" Language matters—make your OKRs user-centric and customer-focused to avoid them feeling like overhead. "

" We need to slow down decision-making processes so that ethics and systems thinking scale with project scope. "

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" Our industry is new enough that we get to make design ops whatever we want it to be – that’s an incredible opportunity. "

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