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Donna Lichaw is an internationally sought-after executive coach, speaker, and author of two Amazon bestsellers. She helps unconventional founders, CEOs, and executive teams level up their leadership and scale their impact while staying true to their mission, purpose, and themselves.
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Donna Lichaw is an internationally sought-after executive coach, speaker, and bestselling author of two Amazon bestsellers. She helps unconventional founders, CEOs, and executive teams level up their leadership and scale their impact while staying true to their mission, their purpose, and themselves.
Donna works with leaders at companies like Google, Disney, Twitter, Microsoft, Mailchimp, and Adobe, as well as a plethora of mission-driven startups and nonprofits. She has been on the adjunct faculty at New York University, Northwestern University, and Parsons School of Design. And she is the author of the international bestseller, The Leader’s Journey—the much-awaited follow-up to the product development classic, The User’s Journey.
She lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her partner, kids, dog, and cat and is an avid tin robot collector.
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Podcasts appearances
Lenny’s Podcast - How to discover your superpowers, own your story, and unlock personal growth
Chicago Camps - Assessing Your Leadership Impact
Product Thinking with Melissa Perri - Becoming the Hero of Your Own Story
Storytelling with Heart - How to harness your leadership superpowers
Rosenfeld Review - Donna Lichaw on Leadership Superpowers and Kryptonite
Make Things That Matter - discussing The Leader’s Journey
DesignBetter - discussing The Leader’s Journey
UX Podcast - discussing The Leader’s Journey
Content Strategy Insights - discussing The Leader’s Journey
The Product Experience - Career and alignment part I and part II
The Informed Life - How to bring your story to life as a leader
UX Radio - Story Driven Leadership
The Product Experience - Tell Better Stories
Business901 - Storymapping Your Products
Shop Talk Show - 213: With Donna Lichaw
UX Pod - Customer as Superhero: An Interview with Donna Lichaw
Rosenfeld Media - Users of The Lost Arc: Donna Lichaw Returns
Novice No Longer - Better Products Through Storytelling with Donna Lichaw
UX Discovery Session - Donna Lichaw, Digital Product Strategist
Rosenfeld Media - Designing for Villains: Lou Rosenfeld interviews Eduardo Ortiz and Donna Lichaw
Information Architecture Summit - Designing for Villians
Published Articles and Interviews
Gestalt Review - Using Story as Part of a Gestalt Coaching Practice
ADHD in Leadership - ProdPad panel with industry experts
Narrative Therapy - book experpt, DesignBetter
A List Apart - The User's Journey
Adobe Blog - Story-First UX Design
Net Magazine - Why You Should Make Your Users Heroes
Net Magazine -What's Your Approach To Prototyping?
UX Magazine - Book Excerpt: "The User's Journey"
UX Booth - Engage Users Along Their Journey
UX Matters - The User's Journey
Medium - Sidebars to The User's Journey by Dave Malouf
UX Matters - Storymapping: A MacGyver Approach To Content Strategy
Content Science Review - Q&A with Donna Lichaw, author of The User’s Journey
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