Eric Folger
Eric Folger is a designer and business manager with experience taking design into organisations and making design accessible and effective for businesses. He has a strong interest in the intersection of design and management, and focuses on strategy, usability, and organisational change issues. His current role within AMP, a financial services company, is as their innovation design principal.
Before returning to Australia, Eric was a consultant at Jump Associates, a design strategy firm outside of San Francisco, California, where he worked to help large organisations understand their customers through empathy-based design methodologies.
Prior to Jump, Eric was the Executive Manager of Design at Suncorp where he worked to integrate design methods into the product and service creation for Home Insurance programmes.
In addition to his most recent experiences, Eric enjoyed a long and successful career in specialty retail in varied roles from product design and merchandise management to creating and running an e-commerce division.
Eric has a Masters degree in Design Methods from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Institute of Design. He also holds a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree in Cinematography from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.