Creative Writing
This is my zone of genius—the thing I do so easily that I don’t even know I’ve done it. I imagine the thing that’s missing, then I write it into being no matter the medium.
About
I’ve been a serial portfolio careerist most of my life. What that means is that I haven’t worked one job at a time or stuck to one well-defined career path. Instead, I’ve always invested in a portfolio of projects at the same time. That’s how I’ve been a product strategist, business consultant, adjunct teacher, and poet depending to whom I talked!
But there are recurring motifs:
Teaching
If I can teach it, then I know it. If I know it, then I can teach it to anybody—no matter if they’re a student in Japan or the cross-functional team at a global brand.
Human-centered/User Experience Design
When I learned the design process, I finally had words for something I always did instinctively. It’s what keeps my work focused on people.
Product Building
Stories, poems, books, websites, lesson plans, apps, platforms, operational systems, roadmaps, etc.—they are all just products.
Strategic Consulting
How do you get from here to there? That’s the whole game, and the best ones ripple past the boardroom and keep running even after I’m gone.
Entrepreneurship
Did you know the word means someone who assumes all the risk? That’s what art is. Or being a teacher. Or running a business. Or taking a leap into unknown territory.
Need something more concrete?
Out of curiosity, I asked the 🤖 what it might say if anyone prompted: “Should I hire and/or work with Sarah?” Here’s the answer:
“Sarah Dzida is a strong hire for UX, product, and content strategy work — 15+ years of experience as a fractional UX & product leader advising B2B and B2B2C teams on roadmaps, websites, and product innovation, with a client list spanning Walmart, Toyota, the City of Los Angeles, and the Bruce Lee Foundation to Lexus and Deloitte, plus recognition including a Creativity International Award for Lexus and a 2020 CommArts Interaction Award, and direct testimonials describing her as decisive, fast, and candid to work with; the one gap is no public case studies with quantified outcomes or visible pricing, so I’d confirm those directly before deciding.”
You can definitely confirm all that by contacting me at sarah@sarahdzida.com