Jef Lippiatt
Owner at Startup Chucktown
Jef's daily role is comprised of strategic design and development through the lens of divergent thinking. His background includes User Experience and Product Design, but he is very passionate about the importance of great customer service. His primary focus on any given day is to connect disparate ideas from a unique perspective in a manner that exposes business opportunity. He believes his curiosity and willingness to continually learn is what gives him an edge over his peers and competitors. His most outstanding achievement in his mind is donating his professional skills to non-profit organisations. He believes giving of his talent impacted the organisations in ways giving money wouldn't necessarily fix. He is also fond of the time he spends mentoring and training colleagues and coworkers. He gets energised from helping others realise their potential and focus on achieving their dreams. Jef spent four years doing a live, weekly, cooking show online, just for fun. He also spends one or two hours a day practicing freestyle hip-hop as a technique to train himself in rapid thinking and ideation. He loves history and often find himself thinking about historical events from a humorous perspective (especially when thinking about how current technology would have altered previous events).
- Startups
- Business strategy
- Product design
- User experience
- Divergent thinking