A researcher by nature, Cecelia leads by listening — facilitating roundtable dialogues and creative exchange to foster emergent insight and shared purpose for teams and organizations. Keying into attention through user research, experience design, behavioral science, and change storytelling, she takes a dynamic approach to systems adaptation, designing experiences that ripple and resonate across physical and digital. Cecelia flourishes in diverse teams and growth-mode environments. 

With 10+ years leading people-first strategy across public, private, and creative sectors, Cecelia shines in navigating complexity and finding meaning in the noise to forge new ways forward. Cecelia spent 5 years honing her design toolkit in government consulting, advising State and Federal agencies on Experience and Design Innovation, solving for trust, equity, sustainability, security, and resilience. In 2023, Cecelia helped launch Deloitte’s Wildfire practice, making the case for ecodiplomacy and storytelling, bringing public and private agencies together to address the complexities of climate change.

Cecelia developed her trust-based, pioneering style working in search and ecommerce at Microsoft and Amazon, and made waves at Google Cloud, serving as strategic partner to Google executives and advising clients like Verizon, AT&T, Nielsen, WPP, and HBO. Cecelia broke tradition with the Executive Briefing Center by standing up a Voice of Customer program to co-create with clients, driving client-first transformation, operational resilience, and sustainable innovation leveraging Big Data, AI, and Kubernetes technologies. 

Cecelia holds a B.A. in Cognitive Science from Yale University, with depth in behavioral science, philosophy, choice architecture, and systems thinking in business and beyond. In those formative years, she was fortunate to study with living legends in the arts (Alex Nemerov and Martina Droth), social psychology (Laurie Santos and John Bargh), systems theory (Henry Sussman), consumer behavior (Ravi Dhar and Shane Frederick) and the art and science of perception (Lawrence Marks and Tamar Gendler). She currently serves as VP of the Yale Club of Austin, and Texas Liaison for Yale Blue Green, a global coalition for climate action and education. She invests in her community both locally and globally through patronship, partnerships, and creative exchange.

Beyond the 9 to 5, Cecelia has an active art practice rooted in field research, photography, and contemplation of the living world. Through her art, poetry, and dreamlike designs, she imagines new ways of bridging our divides, and seeing the earth with kindred eyes.