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Sharon West, Mechanical Engineering Manager at Delve, will be speaking at IDSA's "Women in Design Deep Dive" in Philadelphia on June 26 - 27, 2024.

The event is IDSA's annual celebration of inclusion and diversity in design. The theme for 2024 centers on amplifying efforts to gain more influence, conduct fruitful negotiations, effectively communicate design value, become a master at self-direction, and more.

Sharon's session, titled "That Hat Can Fit Me Too!" will start at 3:10 pm ET on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, and will cover how design professionals can make successful transitions work in an era of perpetual change.

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Sharon will discuss supporting yourself and others to reduce the friction inherent to role changes, team changes, and workforce changes. Attendees will hear about transition successes and stumbles, lessons learned, and bright hopes for the future from someone who has made hops between: small start-ups and large well-established companies, domestic and international teams, industry and consulting sectors, as well as technical work, project management and people management.

Attendees will learn:

1. How to smoothly swap "hats" as you move to a new role.
2. How to ease transitions for new folks joining your team.
3. The importance of putting on a new hat to change your perspective.

About the Speaker

Sharon West is a Mechanical Engineering Manager and technical lead at the product development firm Delve. She's spent her 20+ year career mostly in the science and healthcare sectors working with cross-disciplinary teams to create laboratory robotics, biothreat detectors, pharmaceutical manufacturing equipment, and healthcare diagnostic devices from point-of-care to high-throughput central lab instruments.

Product Engineering Services at Delve

At Delve, Sharon has expanded her experience into consumer, commercial and industrial products. She's motivated by making lives easier and reducing pain points for all stake-holders-not just end users, but also for manufacturers, assembly and service technicians, and future generations. She loves how, with her technical hat on, she has a chance to collaborate with amazing team-mates and when wearing her people-manager hat, she has the chance to help great engineers work to their full potential.

Learn more and register at the event website.

Learn more about Product Development Engineering Services from Delve​.