30+ Years Developing Toys Prior to KidKenn
Over 30 years of working on both internal and external global brands for a Fortune 500 company.
20 years of creative leadership for Fisher-Price in US, Hong Kong, and China
Building a World-Class Toy Design Team in Asia
Brainstorming for the Emerging Market
KidKenn has the ability and resources to set up and facilitate brainstorms anywhere in the world!
Teaching and inspiring innovation in some ways was reversing culture.
Foam-core workshop
Breaking out of character!
Outcome: A successful line of low-price baby toys designed for the emerging markets in China and India
Head of the creative team that worked with experts to conduct "in-home" research and brainstorms to create the biggest infant line in the company's history, translated to more than 30 languages.
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"Good guys that are cool guys"
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Accredited with the conception of an action figure line that was targeted towards preschoolers and became the number one preschool cartoon on Warner Brothers!
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Amazing Animals was a concept coming out of NYC Toy Fair to create a baby action figure line.
Fisher-Price Peek a Blocks
As Head of Design and Fashion, our team created unique platforms that are better for the baby and mom, while providing the fin and character-based fashions that moms expected from Fisher-Price in this range of products.
Fisher-Price Jumperoo
Fisher-Price Baby Papasan
Cradle Swing is an innovative platform as it swings in two directions.
The Fisher-Price Infant Car Seat won an IDSA Gold Design Award and was the first car seat designed to use outside of the car.​
Developed Baby Characters exclusive for the China market.
Baby Rainforest Collection
A diverse group of key stakeholders, including Mattel Design, Mattel Children's Foundation, Child Development, Marketing net with representatives from Save the Children and the Indonesian Ministry of Education in Jakarta to brainstorm on advocating the "right to learn" and on developing play-kits for low resource children in Indonesia.
Kenn led a team of global experts in research to conduct ethnographic research at schools, homes and clinics asking what are the most important things to teach and learn.
KidKenn is looking for corporate partners who are interested in 'social innovation' as a way to help parents and children anywhere in the world with the advantage of seeding the market with brands. seed the market for brand strong brands and product.
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It is interesting to learn that the top things that they want their children to learn, were around hygiene and safety, as apposed to the alphabet and math, as it is in the US and China.
Learning Playground
How do we advocate the importance of "learning through play" so that parents and teachers in low resource communities can understand the benefit and adopt it in their preschools?
My concept is to add basic learning and physical development in a community playground.
Adding play-based learning and familiar outdoor games to an outdoor or indoor playground. This concept was presented as a consideration for the Ministry of Education in Indonesia.