Jade Tang-Taylor

10 years, 10 designs, 10 lessons

Jade Tang-Taylor is a designer, dreamer, and do-er. A purpose-driven, design-led, creative social entrepreneur, Jade is the Chapter Founder of CreativeMornings Auckland. She returns home to us on the tenth anniversary of our inception, to share ‘10 years, 10 designs, 10 lessons’ with us.

Jade is deeply passionate about design for social impact, community-led collective impact, and co-designing with people who have lived experience. She describes her career as “a squiggly line, rather than a straight one”, and has worked on a myriad of game-changing projects with change-making organisations. Jade currently leads as Director of Innovation and Partnerships in Aotearoa, for the Innovation Unit. Prior to that, she was part of the leadership group at NZ’s largest philanthropic organisation Foundation North, an associate at the Centre for Social Impact, a design thinking lecturer at AUT University, and co-founder of the social change creative agency Curative.

Alongside Innovation Unit, Jade currently holds a few governance and advisory roles: HFWSLG (Healthy Families Waitākere Strategic Leadership Group), NACEW (National Advisory Council for Employment of Women) and MECAG (Ministerial Ethnic Community Advisory Group) as well as being a proud mum of one, and a lover of cheese.

We cannot wait to welcome her to the stage, and celebrate our tenth birthday with you all!