Catherine Bragdon

Consultant to the Design Facilitation Team at Herman Miller

Catherine Bragdon is currently a consultant to the Design Facilitation Team at Herman Miller where she helps to identify new design talent and explore new ideas for product innovation. Prior work for HMI includes the development of the Bio Design Group and various leadership positions in materials and portfolio management.

Bragdon founded her consultancy in 2001 and since then has worked to help others to establish innovative sustainable deisgn initiatives. She founded the Biomimicry Guild with Janine Benyus in 2003 and was central to the ideation of the Biomimicry Institute. More recently, she led the development of an alliance between Cradle to Cradle protocols and Material ConneXion to establish a global platform for material innovation. Her consultancy has supported projects with Hunter Lovins at the Natural Capitalism Institute, Egg Strategy and DARPA.
 
Prior to this work, she held leadership positions at Interface, Inc. and Guilford of Maine and founded CTD in NYC, a design studio for the textile industry.