Creative Director Cady Beansmith is an experiential design leader whose work sits at the intersection of research, strategy, and the built environment. With a career spanning creative agencies, cultural institutions, and architecture and design firms, Cady brings a deeply human-centered approach to shaping complex systems. Driven by the belief that design is about more than form, her work focuses on improving people’s lived experiences through contextual research and interdisciplinary collaboration.

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Cady specializes in translating complexity into clear concepts that guide meaningful, lasting design outcomes. Across disciplines and scales, her work reflects a commitment to participatory design, systems thinking, and creating environments that serve the communities they are designed for.

MIGHT, Founder, Design Director, Design Strategist, Kansas City, MO

Barkley, Vice President of Experience Design, Kansas City, MO

VMLY&R, Associate Creative Director, Kansas City, MO

Master of Graphic Design, North Carolina State University

Bachelor of Arts in Media Studies and Production, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill