Grant Chandler
Bio
Long-time Minnebar Attendee, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, educator, and operations professional who’s known for explaining things clearly and building systems people can actually use. Grant has taught web and graphic design certificate programs and built curriculum from the ground up, covering UX, accessibility, HTML/CSS, WordPress, and career coaching. Their day-to-day work includes hands-on process improvement - facilitating workshops, cleaning up intake and prioritization, and writing documentation that teams keep coming back to.
Outside of work, Grant’s maker projects - breadmaking, gardening, sewing, electronics, and 3D printing - keep that same practical, hands-on approach sharp..
Presenting Sessions
Past Presentations
Participating Sessions
- The Rise of the Creative Technologist: How & Why Artists and Creatives Are Shaping the Future of AI
- Building a Tech Community
- How I Use Notion to Run my Publishing Company
- Escape the Screenshot Graveyard: Using Notion AI to turn notes, memos & screenshots into action, content, and next steps
- Writing the Video Game Narrative
- Bootstrapping Your E-Commerce Empire Side Hustle With No Money
- Building A Profitable Independent Newsletter
- 📡🕸️ Preppers & Comrades Unite: Building a Decentralized Mesh Network for Resilient Communication
- 50 Ways to Leave Your Company in Ruins
- Build a Business that Isn't Soul Sucking
- Don’t Blame the User—Fix the Design: The UX of Streets and Cities
- Don't Rip and Replace: how to avoid the shiny upgrade pitfall in long-term systems
- Mega Minne Multi Indie Mini Arcade
- Growing a Social Media Community: What’s Working Right Now
- Questions to ask during a transition... and who can help.
- When Before What: Practical prioritization for leaders and builders
- A weather station, plant monitors, buttons, and other smart home fun
- Boldly You: Showing Up to Your Life’s Purpose
- More... "Diagrams to Get your $hit together"
- Don't Let AI Eat You Alive: What Every Employee, Leader, and Organization Must Do Before It’s Too Late
- How To Talk With Your Team About Best Practices (a new way of efficiently discussing and prioritizing the best practices that matter most to your team)
- I Learned How to Tell Stories in This Building — Here's What Most Techies Miss
- From Founder to Marketing Department of One: What Actually Works When You're Doing It All
- Lowering Anxiety for Product & UX/UI Designers (or anyone!) -or- How Language and Perspective Shape Work Dynamics
- You’re Not Leading. You’re Reacting.
- 💡Get finance to say YES to your idea: The other side of the dashboard
- You Are a Superhero. Let's Discover Your Superpower So You Can Use It for Greatness
- Venture Capital: What It Is, How It Works, and When to Walk Away
- 50 Years of Consoles, Computers, and Handhelds: The Convergence of the Steam Deck
- From CAD to Injection-Molded Parts in 12 Hours
- 🛜 The Community Connection: Strategic Marketing, Outreach, and PR for Community Leaders
- More Than a User: Bringing Unreasonable Hospitality into IT Support
- The Five Poisons of Business: Transforming the Patterns That Hold Us Back
- No One Has the Full Picture (Especially in Complex Systems)
- Livin' the Solo Founder Dream. I'll share learnings from building my second Consumer app. Open to participation!
- How we bootstrapped our podcast studio in six months to profitiablity.
- Play Well With Others: Creativity Through Collaboration
- Pricing Office Hours: How (and How Much) Should You Charge.
- Why Your Third COO Just Quit (And Why Recruiting Won't Fix It)
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of LLMs at Creating Broken Systems
- 🔥😌 Calm in the Chaos: Real-World Incident Management (and the Stuff We Don’t Talk About)
- Every Engineer Sucks at Job Hunting Until They Learn This
- Shared Success Agreements: Stop Selling Your Time. Start Investing It.
- The UX of Being Human: A Usability Assessment of You
- Business Partners and Co-Founders: The Good, the Bad, the Weird
- Managing Your Tech Career v17 – (Why do recruiters suck so bad?)
- LinkedIn Isn’t Broken...Your Strategy Is 😳 A LinkedIn growth workshop for founders who want leads-not likes 🙌
- Leverage Your Experience: How to Land Your First Advisory Role
- Service to Software: Turn Your "How-To" into a Monetized Micro-App
- Solar and Battery Storage: What the process of getting a microgrid looks like.
- The Work That Holds Teams Together: Stop Blaming the Person. Fix the System.
- The Parts You Didn't See: A Collective Account of Operation Metro Surge