Prior to joining Innosight in 2007, Renee was a consultant for marketing firms in Austin, Texas, and in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where she consulted with Fortune 500 companies in the consumer packaged goods, retail, publishing, and technology industries around consumer insights and new product development. She has had training in creativity skills and idea generation methods, and has led many ideation sessions and creativity training workshops with consumers and with clients.

Previously Renee had a 15-year career in print journalism, including stints as a reporter and editor for The Dallas Morning News and the Nashville Tennessean, and managing editor at D Magazine in Dallas.  Additionally, her articles have appeared in various print publications (Dallas Observer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, FWWeekly, Austin American-Statesman, American Way), as well as online publications such as BusinessWeek.com and Forbes.com.

In 2002, Renee founded IdeaFlow, one of the first blogs about innovation and creativity. She has also contributed to live-conference blogs for Business Innovation Factory's BIF conference and for Supernova 2007.

Renee taught writing and informal logic at the University of Texas-Arlington, where she received an M.A. in Rhetoric. She received a B.A. in English from the University of Alabama.