Founder and CEO of Concurrency
Ve Dewey is a globally networked design leader whose career has been at the intersection of technology, design, and innovation. She has succeeded across industry, the third sector, and academia for globally iconic creative brands and organisations, such as Mattel Inc. and Adobe. She is a polymath and a connector whose natural thinking is on the bleeding edge, allowing her to see opportunities others do not and to collaborate with diverse leaders and organisations that positively impact the collective. Over a 15+ year career, Ve has championed inclusive approaches to design leadership, organisational change, and AI. This is evident with her experience of curating and executing the inaugural design HR role at Mattel, supporting 400+ creatives during the company’s cultural and digital transformation, leading multi-million dollar global rebrands at Mattel, product marketing at Adobe, where she established a new creative marketing programme in Europe to support key customers (e.g., WPP and TfL) to meet business imperatives creatively; curating and producing disruptive events from the AIGA (US) to London Design Festival (UK); and more recently as the Head of Strategy for the neurodesign based AI start-up, NeuroCreate to support its evolution and funding, at the Royal College of Art, where she collaborated on evolving a neuroscience-based inclusive leadership model to address equity, diversity, and inclusivity; and as the founder of the creative consultancy, Concurrency.
Ve’s influence extends beyond her professional roles. She is the founder of the RSA’s Global Decolonising Design Coalition, a partner and collaborator on the forthcoming pan-commonwealth ’Indiginising Design’ series in partnership with The British Council office for Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific, University of Exeter, and IDIA; a board member and co-creator of the Australian-founded creative organisation Never Not Creative, a visiting Fellow at ZincVC, and a Design Council Expert. Ve holds an MBA (distinction) from Central Saint Martins with a research focus on design and systems-based leadership. She founded and hosts the ‘Concurrency of Leadership’ podcast. Ve specialises in leadership in relation to design, systems, and non-western philosophies. She has a secondary research interest at the intersection of AI and inclusivity.
