Timothy Bardlavens

Senior Product Design Manager, Microsoft

Seattle

Timothy Bardlavens is a Product Design Leader, Cultural Strategist and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Specialist who approaches Organizational Culture challenges through the lens of of Design strategy. His work shifts the focus of DEI from a Human Resources to a User Experience challenge, helping business leaders to understand teams, organizations and companies are designed entities which need unique approaches to cultivate and thrive in an increasingly diverse space. Most importantly, Timothy works with business leaders to develop people-centric strategies with clear, actionable steps to increase diversity, retention, innovation and revenue.

As a Sr. Product Design Manager at Microsoft, Timothy leads a team that focuses on core UX and Intelligent experiences in Outlook online in addition to platform experiences that span the O365 Suite and various endpoints.

Timothy is also the Co-Founder of the Design + Diversity Fellowship Program. The purpose of this program: to identify and support emerging under-represented designers with a passion to make positive change within their communities as well as the creative industry. The year-long fellowship not only addresses the needs of the fellows, but it is also meant to amplify the voices and work of each individual both professionally and within their communities.

Timothy also is an international speaker and facilitator, previously speaking at Adobe, Microsoft, Capital One, Seattle Design Week and more.