Thomas Mueller is a thinker, maker, and a leader. Over the last 25+ years, he has helped client-side and agency design & innovation teams bring creativity, simplicity, elegance, and rigor to their practice.
He has worked with a wide range of clients, from mega-corps to non-profits, CEOs/CMOs and CDOs, and a wide range in between. Huge fan of simplicity, loves using design as a process to unlock value, understand people, integrate technology, create emotional connections, and ultimately enable magical experiences. He believes in the success of design when it puts people at the center. Passionate about giving people something to smile about, while enabling the quality and equality of human lives.
In his role as Chief Design Officer, he is, on any given day, involved in building deep client relationships, enabling innovative team environments, while infusing creativity and simplicity into Accenture's DNA, so that human impact and business value are delivered in equal parts to clients.
Prior to joining Accenture Song, Thomas helped transform Siegel+Gale as its Chief Experience Officer into a modern brand experience consultancy, helped Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia rejuvenate its online business, and helped Arnold Worldwide build a world-class, creatively integrated digital team. He started his journey in New York at Razorfish just as the term Silicon Alley was coined. Over the course of nearly ten years, he helped build design teams across the world. In his role as VP Design/Executive Creative Director, he has worked with clients such as Allianz, AOL, CBS, Ford Motor Company, Generali, Time Warner, Charles Schwab, Giorgio Armani, Citibank, and Sony.
Proud graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, he offers time to college faculty, its students, and graduates as a coach, sounding board, and advocate for design education. Frequent speaker at Creative and Design Conferences and judge or jury president (Cannes Lions, EuroBest, LIA London International Awards).
