Peace!

I'm Farai. I coach managers, speak, and write, about how to have 1:1 meetings that unblock career progress.

Articles

The most important people in your career Sep 5, 2022
High output. And a high quality work-life. Oct 1, 2022

Coaching

I work with new and emerging leaders around the world to increase their people leadership skillset and develop effective, inclusive practices that make them better at people stuff.

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Speaking

I speak around the world and online. These days I'm focussed on talking about working effectively in multicultural teams. If you’d like me to speak at a public or private event, catch me on farai (at) pixelup.co.za.

Video of my talk at Leading Design 2019 (New York)

2022

CanUX
The Only One of Your Kind in the Room: Perils and Opportunities

November 15, 2022 — Ottawa, Canada
Amuse UX
Designing your 1:1

October 6, 2022 — Budapest, Hungary
Mind the Product
Working with strangers, well

May 24, 2022 — San Francisco / Online

2021

FITC Spotlight UX (Online)
Designing 1:1 meetings that don’t suck

July 15, 2021 — Online

2020

An Event Apart Fall Summit
Working Together in Diverse Teams

October 27, 2020 — Online
Clarity2020
Designing teams. Designing systems.

September 4, 2020 — Online

2019

CanUX
Cultural bias in design(ers) - Talk

October 30, 2019 — Ottawa, Canada
Leading Design - London
Cultural bias in design(ers) - Talk

November 6, 2019 — London, UK
An Event Apart
Working Together in Diverse Teams

October 28, 2019 — Denver, USA
Leading Design - New York
The only one of your kind in the room: Perils and opportunities.

June 19, 2019 — New York, USA
UXLx
Talk + Workshop

May 21, 2019 — Lisbon, Portugal

2018

Fluxible
Cultural bias in design(ers)

September 22, 2018 — Waterloo, Canada
UX Australia
Keynote

August 31, 2018 — Melbourne, Australia
UX Week
Diverse teams: Working together across cultures - Workshop

August 24, 2018 — San Francisco, USA
Design & Content Conference
Cultural bias in design(ers)

July 27, 2018 — Vancouver, Canada
Interaction 18
Cultural bias in design(ers)

February 8, 2018 — Lyon, France
Automattic People Series
Bias in multicultural teams

April 17, 2018 — Remote
IA Summit
Cultural bias in design(ers)

March 25, 2018 — Chicago, USA
Pixel Up!
Cultural bias in design(ers)

March 12, 2018 — Johannesburg, South Africa
World Interaction Design Day 2018
Our team is diverse. Now what?

September 25, 2018 — Toronto, Canada

2017

EOH Connect 2017
Design value and digital business

March 5, 2017 — Johannesburg, South Africa
DVT Insights
Design in Enterprise is Difficult in South Africa

October 25, 2017 — Johannesburg, South Africa

2016

Gordon Institute of Business Science
Design thinking in business

July 15, 2016 — Johannesburg, South Africa