Co-founder, Design Futures Aotearoa | Co-founder, simpact AI | Fractional Director, ThinkPlace NZ | Innovation Advisor, academyEX | Design, Systems & Futures Thinker
Jade Tang-Taylor has built her career in the space where design thinking, systems thinking, and futures thinking converge, and she will be the first to tell you that treating these as separate disciplines is a false distinction. The real work happens at the intersection, and that's where she operates.
Co-founder of Design Futures Aotearoa and simpact AI, and Fractional Consulting Director at ThinkPlace NZ, she works with organisations trying to build something better: not just better products or services, but better systems and more equitable futures. Her Masters in Arts Management gives her a foundation in how culture and creativity shape the way organisations think and act.
At academyEX, she brings that cross-disciplinary lens to the Master of Technological Futures, helping leaders develop the capacity to think across time horizons and design for futures that haven't arrived yet. If you want to co-design a better future, Jade has probably already started.