Jacqueline (Jax) Wechsler🇦🇺

About Jacqueline (Jax) Wechsler

Principal Designer at Sticky Design Studio

Jax is passionate about enabling better futures for individuals, society and the planet and has been working in design for close to 20 years. For the past 15 years she has been working with human-centred design. Consulting as Sticky Design Studio, Jax assists organisations with human-centred design consulting, co-design facilitation, program development, and supporting clients to develop internal design capability through coaching, training, and mentoring. Jax has extensive experience working with vulnerable communities and people with Lived Experience and mostly works with government and not for profit organisations.

Jax relies on diverse approaches to help make change stick and her practice is continually evolving. He change work draws on multiple practices, including Co-Design, Human-centred Design, Systems Thinking, Futures Thinking, Neuroscience, Trauma Informed Practice and Asset-Based Community Development.

Jax loves learning and sharing her practice. She has a Bachelor of Arts with a Religious Studies major, post-graduate certificates in IT and Digital Media and a Masters by Research in Design. Her masters thesis is a practice-based case-study exploring how design artefacts support customer-centric organisational change.. Jax has several academic and practitioner publications about design related change, and presents about her social design and change work at Australian and international conferences. Jax enjoys teaching others her craft and lectures casually at the University of NSW, the University of Newcastle and the University of Technology, Sydney.

Passionate about social, environmental, and systems change Jax convenes two communities of practice, Social Design Sydney (founded in 2013) and the Systems Change Salon (founded in 2019). She is currently involved in a pro bono Theory U Systems Awareness Learning Journey working with Aunty Olive Knight from the Wangkajunka, wider Fitzroy Valley community looking at Indigenous Youth Suicide. Jax believes that change making is about inner work too. She is passionate about mentoring and coaching change makers. She recently completed a 12 week course in Neuroscience and Change, and is currently undertaking certification in Coaching (ICF).

Learn more about Jax, view her writing and case studies of her work on her online portfolio: http::://jaxwechsler.com

Expertise

Sessions with Jacqueline (Jax) Wechsler

• Mentorship Session (30 min): General mentorship