Janna Fiester
Vice President of Creative & UX: Linked In Bio
Sandstorm www.sandstormdesign.com
Presenting: Creativity in Careers
A design-thinker, gifted leader, and passionate professional, Janna never stops imagining ways to make clients’ work better. She sees the possibility in everything and excels at taking nuggets of good ideas and nurturing them into great ideas. Janna honed this skill by teaching young artists at the University of Illinois. An extraordinary Vice President who actively listens to clients’ challenges and uses them for inspiration, Janna is Sandstorm’s secret weapon.
Janna elevates the agency’s work with her intuitive leadership skills. She knows how to ask the questions to unearth crucial insights that illuminate creative solutions for our clients. These solutions are always strategic, engaging, and visually delightful.
Janna’s award-winning work has been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago and showcased in a number of design publications.
If she has any free time after work and family (a hubby, two kids), you can find Janna leading TEDxOakParkWomen, mentoring students and youth professionals or on the stage with castanets in hand performing Flamenco.