Sharon Lessard
Chief Creative Officer, Ensemble
With over 25 years of experience in the creative and design industry, Sharon Lessard is a seasoned leader and influencer of the customer experience. As the Chief Creative Officer at Ensemble, a global collective of passionate storytellers, designers, and architects, she leads the vision and direction for creating seamless end-to-end experiences for clients including strategy, brand development, creative direction, visual merchandising, and holistic design. Sharon loves to lead teams with the belief that the built environment is where every part of a brand comes together for the consumer. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, she narrows the brand's red thread through storytelling and clarity of purpose. As a design thinker, speaker, and influencer, Sharon inspires unexpected experiences that foster meaningful human and transformational connections by combining discipline and intuition to provoke the norm, getting to the essence of a problem. Some call it edge; she calls it insight.