Courtney’s creative leadership experience at companies and organizations that live at the intersection of impact and innovation has provided her with unique insight into the brand experience and creating meaningful, systemic impact on both industry-wide challenges and customer-facing communication.

After beginning her career in 2004 at Ralph Lauren and Coach in apparel, accessories, and textile design and development, Courtney spent over a decade working on the ground for ethically and sustainability driven NGOs and nonprofits to build business solutions that bridged the divide between global retailers and impact-driven design initiatives. Driven to more intimately understand consumer behavior and how data and human truths drive business, she went on to develop insight-driven creative strategies and brand campaigns as a creative leader at in-house creative agencies for Stitch Fix, Walmart, and Hatch.

Courtney is the founder of Future Foreword, an experimental think tank platform that negotiates transitional change in the apparel and textile industry by driving cross-disciplinary insight to lead through complex systems-level change.

Her work is connected to long horizons of time, global perspectives and visions of a desired future.