Gretchen consults with clients to inform their product strategy and improve team collaboration skills. Her book, Mastering Collaboration is a handbook to help teams work better together. She spent the first part of her career in design consulting for firms like frog design, Cooper, and LUNAR. Recently, she was Head of Design at PG&E, California’s largest energy company, she has led the design of the hardware and software of next-generation surgical systems, and served as VP of Product at GreatSchools.org.

Gretchen is a Bay Area native who left only long enough to get a bachelor’s degree from Harvard in History & Literature.