Tanarra Schneider has spent her career at the fault line between design and engineering — not observing it, but being accountable for it.

As Director of Front End Design & Development at Playboy, she ran both sides: design and dev, in direct partnership with the Director of Engineering, across a portfolio of businesses. As Managing Director in Accenture's Design and Innovation practice, she led teams of UX designers, visual designers, and creative technologists — working hand-in-hand with engineering to ship work that required all of it to function together.

She knows what it looks like when that relationship works. She knows what it costs when it doesn't. Both of those things are expensive, and only one of them is obvious.

She's now the founder of Rebel 75, a leadership and culture strategy consultancy. The work is different; the problem is the same: the human infrastructure underneath the technical strategy is almost always where things break.