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DESIGNPOINT

The Full Circle: From Boardroom Strategy Back to the Creative Core

Glen Walter, the founder and managing member of the international design consultancy ELEVEN, LLC, has transitioned his focus to enter a phase of deliberate, targeted creative work at DESIGNPOINT—the studio where he first began his career in the late 1980s.

Throughout his career, Glen has orchestrated innumerable strategic design programs for Fortune 100 companies and innovative startups alike. While these initiatives were most often rooted in core product design, they organically expanded over the decades into the high-level analysis and shaping of overarching corporate vision.

Reflecting on a trajectory that yielded more designs and patents than can be easily counted, Glen views this next chapter through a lens of immense gratitude. He credits his truest success to the deep, collaborative relationships forged with the hundreds of clients, consultants, and team members who worked alongside him to solve complex global challenges.

Driven by a belief that design should serve a broader purpose, Walter dedicates a proportion of time to championing impactful, mission-driven projects that are often overlooked by purely commercial or corporate pursuits.

This commitment to giving back extends into an active thought leadership role, speaking and mentoring at institutions including Harvard, MIT, NYU, Babson, and Syracuse, as well as advising organizations like the IDSA, the Design Management Institute, and Enterprise Ireland. His insights have been featured in The Harvard Business Review, ID Magazine, The Boston Globe, and The Wall Journal, and he frequently serves as an expert juror for international design accolades, including the IDEA Awards in Washington, D.C.

a glimpse while driving the bus at 11

CLIENT relationships

through research, industrial design & engineering

mixed with creativity, imagination, skill & INTUITION

the journey has been HUMBLING thus far...

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Albert Einstein

grow business through IDEAS

Opportunities

Uncover and discover behaviors and trends in the usage and interaction of objects and places. Hunting and gathering intelligence on a global scale to unearth opportunity landscapes across behaviors, markets, and channels to empower design and achieve business success.

Products and Places

Developing objects & spaces that propel our society - inspired product development. How people use them, manufacture them, as well as the places they buy them.

Team

Lucky enough to have connected with so many talented designers, engineers, visual communications professionals, researchers, strategists, manufacturing facilitators... those who have worked for or with me throughout the years. An "A Team" roster has been assembled to fill most any need.

POW AUDIO — venture — consumer

pet project licensing — DESIGNPOINT loves pets

PASSION play — Paralympic sled hockey sponsorship

THOUGHTS

I find myself in a position of thought leadership. I have rallied enthusiasm at the Industrial Designer's Society of America, Design Management Institute, other organizations, universities, corporations and governments that would listen to me speak about the universe of available ideas and the literal frameworks that are productive conduits. Possibilities through creativity and imagination were always core themes.

An hour North of Boston on Maine's Rocky Coast.

DESIGNPOINT’s deliverables create powerful consumer experiences that grow financials.

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DESIGNPOINT

7 Old Salt Lane, Cape Neddick, ME 03902

617-823-4323

Design Inspiration

Design Inspiration

DESIGNPOINT

The Full Circle: From Boardroom Strategy Back to the Creative Core

a glimpse while driving the bus at 11

CLIENT relationships

through research, industrial design & engineering

mixed with creativity, imagination, skill & INTUITION

the journey has been HUMBLING thus far...

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.