Stacey Messier is obsessed with creating great experiences for customers and employees. She began her career as a designer and fell in love with user research and product validation after working with Jeff Gothelf (co-author of Lean UX) to transform a software company from making products for themselves to one that excelled at making products their customers loved. She’s led digital transformation, innovation incubators, as well as user experience and research teams across companies large and small, but today, she comes to Venture Cafe as the GM for CIC Providence! You can find her on LinkedIn and Medium.