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Today’s Talent Time Story is . . .
Life ExperienceDeborah Rita
PATERSON
And so the story goes . .
Deborah Rita
PATERSON
The 90’s
You need to do homework to
supplement your homework!
Yes Mum!
Being born to an Asian mother who understood the need for me to succeed in my education, I studied excessively and did triple the amount of homework than the other kids.
My mother left Indonesia with my brother and I for
a safer land when I was just two months old and only
about a foot long.
& fulfillment of
Humankind’sPotential
Peace
?Trying to figure
out life . .
VP
This role taught me how to negotiate recruitment deals with CEO’s and how to put together the peices of the business model puzzle at age nineteen. My journey in the world of corporate marketing had begun and my passion for entrepreneurship and social innovation was ignited.
Some unfortunate events caused me to miss out on
a place in the architecture class and forfeit my
scholarship, so I started exploring other things like
design, business, technology, education and computer
science. I discovered an organization called AIESEC
where I could ‘discover and develop my potential’ and
was elected VP Corporate Development. Yay!
st1I excelled in math, art and design and managed to earn
a college scholarship for Academic Excellence to
study architecture. It was a challenge to say the least!
VP
Through AIESEC I earnt an opportunity to fly to Italy to attend a youth leadership forum where I met youth with similiar visions and ambitions from all walks of Europe and North America. Following that I was able to experience being a VP Corporate Development in Athens in the midst of the riots.
Shortly after my return home, my
ambition took a hit along with my head
in a snow boarding accident involvin
g a
block of ice and a plastic tube (note t
o
self - curved objects are hard to
balance on).
NAPLES, ITALY 2009
DesignGel
Kick.It
Eventually I gathered my brain and started my own
project to keep myself from getting bored until I
was ready to return to design school. DesignGel, an
young creative agency was born to help connect
young designers, non-profits and startups together in
order for them to help each other grow.
That summer I sh
adowed the found
er of
a start up tr
ying to make sm
oking cessatio
n
more social and
effective thr
ough gamificatio
n.
I observed a
mix of ideas, c
haos, strateg
y
all thrown toge
ther. That’s t
he startup li
fe!
Following the accident I
was forced to w
ithdraw
from university after
frantically trying
(and
failing) to complete t
he course work. In
stead I
resorted to s
leeping for s
ixteen hours
a day and
waitressing for money
to pay my rent in
between.
Would you like a skull fracture with your brain injury?
January
National Universityof Singapore
I continued to build DesignGel in between hospital appointments with neurologists, audiologists, physios and occuptational therapists to repair the damage that had been done. Our first boardroom was the roof of a bed factory with a wooden table, juice boxes and a team of students I had recruited . .
Eventually word got round the city about
us and we got business incubators, accel-
erators and networks to help us raise
over $100,000 to help us on our way . . .
Eventually my brain healed enough for me to return to university and I was offered a scholarship to study in Singapore at NUS and also experience the delights (on and off the beaten track) of South East Asia.
I helped manage DesignGel from Singapore and
while studying, I met a team of cyclists who
were filming a documentary in Sri Lanka ,
covering the post-war country. . So I asked if
I could come and 750km of cycling later, I can
live to tell the tale of cycling around live land
mines left from the war and showering out of
a well in a villager’s backyard.
Cycle on ceylon700KM. 14 DAYS. 6 CYCLISTS.
I KNOW!
Really?Really?
OKAY!
Upon my return from Singpore, I took a role as a marketing assistant with Im-Able, a global start up helping those affected by stroke, TBI and cerebral palsy recover their brain and limbs through video games. Goalpost (formerly Kick.It) also brought
me back on as a freelance designer to
help them create a campaign for youth
engagement. Wow! I learnt a lot about
behavior change strategies and a little
more about gamification as well. . . .
At the start of 2013 I passed on the management of DesignGel in order to focus on another start up called Mention It and also to enable more young creatives to learn what I had learnt from my role.
BUSINESSBlackis the new ention It
An ex-colleague and I also began a journey of entrepreneurial education, forming an online social game with the goal of using fashion as a metaphor to teach business and science to young women based on the latest neuroscience concepts. Watch this space, we’re launching mid 2014!
Howard Wright, a medical bed company then
co-funded a scholarship for myself and a
partner to create socialdesigncares.com - a
prototype platform for young people to
engage in social design and create solutions
to the social problems in their communities.
Mention It took on our
first investor
to
help us create ou
r values based
employee
recognition tools an
d I took on the
role of
Chief Experience Officer. It’s e
arly days,
but we’re seeing what we can build
to help
make work a bit more sati
sfying. . .
NEW ZEALAND
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In October I quit my fulltime job and turned down a management position at Im-Able to move to SF and swim with the big fish, selling everything except some clothes and my beloved sketchbooks.I graduate
d with a rainbow of letter
s on my
transcript, learning more life le
ssons from
the times I failed classes, the
times I got sick
and the times I didn’t
ask for help. On the
easy A’s I said “I’ll learn more next t
ime.”
Reward
Effort
Debo
rah Rita Paterson
President 2
010
COMING SOON
Deborah Rita Paterson
Pres ident 2010
I’ve got big career goals in the health and wellbeing space that stretch far beyond my current experience and I am a firm believer that you get out what you put in. So, in order to learn what I need to know, I’m going to put in all the effort I possibly can for the team and founders at Lumosity, so that I can grow, you can grow and the customers can grow. That’s definitely win - win if you ask me!
Effort = Reward!!
?Now it’s time for your input into this
story Lumosity . . .Let’s set up a time to talk graphics,
lifecycles code and how I can help con-
tribute to the greater Lumosity
mission and purpose.
And so the story continues . . ?
Today’s Talent Time Story is . . .
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