Unknown Origins

Sam Ladner is a sociologist who helps teams innovate, design, and learn. She is the author of Practical Ethnography: A Guide to Doing Ethnography in The Private Sector and Mixed Methods: A Short Guid…

Darren Lee Phillipson is a multi-award-winning Consumer Products, Licensing, and Entertainment innovator and owner of design_lead_play_, spending the last 25 years leading some of the world's most in…

Dan Roam is the author of five internationally bestselling books on business visualization and communication clarity, including; THE POP-UP PITCH, THE BACK OF THE NAPKIN, and DRAW TO WIN.

Dan is a cre…

Bill Burnett is Co-Author of the New York Times best-seller Designing Your Life, Co-Director of the Life Design Lab at Stanford University. A designer, educator, and Adjunct Professor at Stanford Uni…

Jeremy Till is an architect, educator, and writer. As an architect, he worked with Sarah Wigglesworth Architects on their pioneering building, 9 Stock Orchard Street. As an educator, Till is Head of …

Professor Cameron Tonkinwise is an international expert in design studies and transition design and the Research Director of the Design Innovation Research Centre at UTS. Cameron provides a perspecti…

Alana Clapp is the General Stage Manager for Mystère at Cirque du Soleil and provides perspective about being a creative leader within high-performing multi-disciplinary teams that invoke the imagina…

Roy Sharples  delivers a lecture on creativity to the Product Design Engineering (PDE community at The Glasgow School of Art about what creativity is,  how to blend the art and science of the creativ…

Henry Ford changed how people lived and moved around by making cars affordable and accessible to everyday people and driving the world forward to a greater good.

Ghulam Rasool is a design leader respo…

Researchers explore issues, solve problems and anticipate trends that can shape new frontiers and future directions. Richard Harper is the author of 14 books, including the IEEE award-winning "The My…

Mia Reyes provides perspective about creativity in shaping public policy and what it means to have an authentic purpose-led mission-driven approach to unleashing your creative power by making people'…

Peter Fisk  provides perspective on his creative approach for helping businesses be innovative, what it takes, pitfalls to avoid, keys to success, and his vision for the future of business.  

Peter is…

Youth culture is the canvas onto which our values are imprinted and shaped. Seamlessly woven into this is the responsibility to pass the baton by leaving the world better than we inherited it. 

Bryan …

Professor José Teunissen, Dean of the School of Design and Technology at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London (UAL), and Professor of Fashion Theory,  provides perspective on the …

Dr. Mariana Amatullo is an Associate Professor of Strategic Design and Management at Parsons School of Design, and serves as Vice Provost for Global Executive Education & Online Strategic Initiatives…

In 2016, Creative Review voted George Lee as one of the top 50 Creative Leaders globally, alongside Jude Kelly, Björk, and Paul Smith. She co-founded the pioneering social enterprise, The Age of No R…

From mainstreaming. metrosexuals as a columnist at the late lamented, details magazine, to developing the illusion of reality, as part of the creation team of The Real Housewives franchise, through p…

Bankrupt at 16. Thrown out of college at 18. Joined Saatchi and Saatchi at 21. Had a ball. Left advertising to go back to Wales. Started Howies in 1995. Sold it to Timberland. Left. Started The Do Le…

Alan McGee is a music industry entrepreneur, record label owner, and artist manager. He founded Creation Records in 1983 and nurtured multiple influential artists, including The Jesus & The Mary Chai…

John Rooney is a Senior Teaching Fellow in Graphic Design and Visual Communication at the University of Leeds, dedicated to Typography, Type design, Graphic Design for the creative arts, and Image-ma…