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Charlie Claxton is part of executive leadership guiding Thomson Reuters’ global UX Design, Research, Accessibility, UX Engineering, and UX Content Design teams driving digital transformation across our suite of products and tools. These experiences help professionals better understand their industries, increase efficiencies, streamline operations, and mitigate risk within their organizations. Charlie’s career spans 20+ years of creative leadership experience. This includes designing and leading teams that created impactful multi-modal solutions, delivering materialistic results for notable brands, and building multi-disciplinary teams to deliver at scale. Specifically, Charlie built design teams that drove $277B in Gross Merchandise Sales for Amazon, increased the sale of consumable products by 300% for Clarisonic, delivered a 22% increase in NSAT for Microsoft, launched a creative agency with revenues just shy of $2M annually and won some awards along the way including being honored as one of Puget Sound's “40 Under 40." Charlie believes that by creating the right conditions and team structure, we can deliver authentic moments of delight for customers. These moments, tied back to a core vision, unlock sustained long-term results for both the business and its customers. Charlie is based in the Thomson Reuters’ Zug office in Switzerland. Charlie has a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Missouri Columbia’s School of Journalism, and a Masters of Science in Technical Communication from the University of Washington’s School of Engineering.
Charlie Claxton
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Fast Company Executive Board member Charlie Claxton says customers have three priorities for AI-driven products: trust, quality, and value.
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Fast Company Executive Board member Charlie Claxton asserts that organizations need to expand their thinking on accessibility to ensure meaningful inclusion and access for all.
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Only through achieving this balance does a team’s work become smarter.
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If you don’t find a way to upskill your team, get them excited about the next thing, and provide new opportunities, your team members will leave.
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Tough economic times pose a host of challenges, to be sure; however, a pronounced shift away from innovation—rather than a rethinking and recalibration of it—during a potential economic storm will leave your organization scrambling to smoothly sail once calmer seas inevitably appear on the horizon.
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When you ask people for support and insight on a new project, even if you don’t ultimately include every single suggestion you receive, the act of doing so goes a long way toward creating buy-in.
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Thomson Reuters
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Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading provider of news and information-based tools to professionals providing trusted answers to help professionals make confident decisions and run better businesses. Our customers operate in complex arenas that move society forward — law, tax, compliance, government, and media – and face increasing complexity as regulation and technology disrupts every industry. We help them reinvent the way they work. Our team of experts brings together information, innovation and authoritative insight to unravel complex situations, and our worldwide network of journalists and editors keep customers up to speed on global developments that are relevant to them.