Kate Lydon 

Director, Big Motive

Kate Lydon is a seasoned design leader working across strategy, userexperience, and organizational transformation. She leads the Dublinoffice of design consultancy Big Motive. She spent over a decade atglobal design and innovation consultancy IDEO, deliveringtransformative work and business impact, and leading its publicservices practice. As Head of Design at Nextdoor, she built the designteam and a user-centric culture, and helped grow the mobile app’suser base to over 40 million people. Most recently, she built productsand systems to support care as Chief Design Officer at strategy andadvocacy consultancy The Holding Co.