9:45 am - 10:45 am | Belvedere Room
Come experience a taste of Designing Your Life, the bestselling book and popular university course. Leave with tools to get unstuck, to prototype small changes and to use design thinking as you create a sustainable life and work where you thrive.
Kathy is the Managing Director of the Life Design Lab and a Lecturer in the Product Design at Stanford University. She also co-founded the Designing Your Life for Women workshop series, based on the NYT bestselling book. Kathy brings a unique perspective on how engineers, managers and creatives all approach the self-development process.
When not engaged with Stanford students, Kathy trains HR and leadership teams life design, and teaches engineering teams design thinking. Over the course of her 20 year career in Silicon Valley, Kathy has helped build IoT devices, machine tools, a heart surgery instrument, engineering software tools and training programs for design thinking. She holds 5 patents. Additionally, she has traveled to Myanmar to teach design thinking to budding entrepreneurs with the DeBoer Foundation and works with local community groups to impact engagement in health and wellness initiatives.
Kathy has a BS in Biomedical Engineering and Biomechanics from Brown University and an MS in Product Design from Stanford. Kathy is constantly curious. Her own life design involves trail running, commuting from Fremont to Palo Alto by bicycle and practicing improv exercises with her husband and two daughters.
