The Dropbox Design Speaker Series aims to inspire, delight, and engage the creative community on topics that matter. In this installment, we're exploring different design leadership styles and points of view.

This month we'll hear from Dean Broadley, design leader at Vodacom and founder of Designing Humans.

About our speakers

Dean Broadley is a design executive from Cape Town, South Africa. He's spent his career working hard to connect experiences in the physical, digital and career spaces and finds great value in leaving things more human than he found them.

Dean is the Executive Head of Design at Vodacom, as well as the founder of Designing Humans, an organization dedicated to professionalizing and strengthening design in Africa. He spends his time mentoring individuals, assisting enterprise design executives demonstrating the value of design, managing design practice at scale, raising design literacy and developing sustainable talent pipelines.

Previously, Dean has worked in startups and tech businesses as a Product Designer, been an executive design director for a multi-national bank and a digital communications specialist.

Outside of work, Dean spends his time with design communities in South Africa, creating the platform for designers to share, learn and improve through the practice of being human.

He is also an avid chili breeder 🌶.

Chris Abad is a Design Director at Dropbox who is passionate about product, growth, and business strategy. Prior to Dropbox, Chris led Design and Product at UserTesting and Campaign Monitor.

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