Annie Jean-Baptiste

Author of "Building for Everyone" & "Empowerment for All", Tech Disruptor and Executive, Design Evangelist

Boston, MA, USA
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Anti-Racism, Art & Design, Author, Creativity, Culture, DEI, Disruptive Thinking, Diversity & Inclusion, Emotional Intelligence, Empowerment, Female Leadership, Innovation, Personal Growth, Social Activism, Thought Leadership, Women in Business, Women in Tech, Women's Empowerment
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Annie Jean-Baptiste Biography

Annie Jean-Baptiste is a business disrupting tech executive and the author of Building for Everyone, the first book about building inclusive products across the intersections of 12 dimensions of identity along with Empowerment for All.

She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in International Relations & Political Science.

She formerly served as an intrapreneur in residence at the UPenn’s Graduate School of Education, a facilitator for Penn’s Chief Learning Officer Business program and sits on the IEEE's Executive committee & Ethically Aligned Design committee. She’s been inducted into the Haitian Roundtable’s 1804 society and is a former American Heart Association spokesperson.

She currently leads Accessibility, Internationalization and Universal Product Development for Google, focusing on product management, program management and analysis across all of Google's products, including 9 products that serve over a billion users.

Jean-Baptiste is also the founder and Director of Universal Product Development at Google. She leads strategy across the company and consults with various Alphabet companies.

She was voted into Ebony Magazine's power 100 list for 2022 and ADCOLOR in tech award, Boston Design Week's 2024 Social Impact Winner, and currently serves as a Webby’s Executive Judge. She most recently was announced as a United Nations Equity 2030 Executive Champion. She leads Google's partnership with the Council of Fashion Designers of America and has been featured across Vogue, Teen Vogue, Architectural Digest, Bloomberg, ABC, Cheddar and more.

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Annie Jean-Baptiste Speaking Topics

  • Restrictive Design is Bad for Business

    Restrictive Design Is Hurting Your Business

    Design tells people who belongs, sometimes before anyone says a word. Right now, a lot of businesses are telling whole groups of customers they don't.

    Restrictive design rarely looks like a decision. It's one default body, one skin tone in the lighting plan, one way of moving through a space, one language, one perspective in the room. It feels efficient. It's actually sloppy, and it's a terrible business decision. The guest who can't use the shower has a reason not to come back. The attendee lit as an afterthought has a reason not to recommend the event. The customer who never sees themselves reflected has a reason to choose the company that did the work. Exclusion is a business decision, even when you didn't mean to make it.

    The fix isn't designing for ""everyone,"" because everyone is a crowd and every one is a person. It's designing for every one, and every body, and inviting real people in while the decisions can still change.

    In this talk, Annie Jean-Baptiste shares the Seen. Heard. Known. framework: how to spot the restrictive defaults built into your products, spaces and events, the four questions every team should be asking, and real examples of the costliest failures alongside the moves worth borrowing, from skin-tone testing to co-designing the whole journey, including opening the box. She makes the human case and the business case in the same conversation, because feeling seen, heard and known isn't a premium upgrade. It's the starting point.

    What you'll take away:

    • Why restrictive design is a business decision with a price: lost guests, lost referrals, lost customers
    • How ""everyone"" hides the individual, and how to design for every one and every body instead
    • The four questions: Who have we not considered? Who has to ask for help just to participate? Who is present in our images but absent from our decisions? What are we calling an edge case because we've never had to live it?
    • Why global brands need local knowledge, not one headquarters perspective multiplied
    • Borrowable moves: test across skin tones and real bodies, invite people in early and pay them, publish your access details

  • How to Create Change in an Organization

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    Title: From Side Project to Movement: Making the Human and Business Case for Change Keynote/General, theme Purpose, topic Leadership & Organizational Effectiveness.

    Description: How do you turn an idea people care about into a change the business will support? Annie Jean-Baptiste draws on her path from working in HR to starting a side project that grew into a cross-industry movement. Through her personal story, she explores how to balance the human case and the business case for innovation: understanding people's needs, connecting an idea to organizational priorities, and bringing others along through change. professionals will learn how to make the case for a new idea, build support beyond their own team, and help their organizations enter a new era. Attendees leave with a clearer case for change and three concrete steps to move an idea forward.

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Annie Jean-Baptiste Videos

#MoveTheDialSummit 2019 – Annie Jean-Baptiste

#MoveTheDialSummit 2019 – Annie Jean-Baptiste

Annie Jean-Baptiste, Head of Product Inclusion, Research and Activation, Google, speaks to Michael Bancroft about creating products that ...

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Building For Everyone Expand Your Market With Design Practices From Google's Product Inclusion Team
Building For Everyone Expand Your Market With Design Practices From Google's Product Inclusion Team
Empowerment for All A Four-Step Framework for Creating Change in Teams and Communities
Empowerment for All A Four-Step Framework for Creating Change in Teams and Communities

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