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Restorying Design: Cultivating Change in Ourselves, Our Organizations, and Our Communities

Session Description

What if design thinking’s most important outcome isn’t what we create, but what we cultivate? Drawing on decades of research at the intersection of design, innovation, and strategy, Jeanne Liedtka explores how design practices can create lasting change in ourselves, our organizations, and our communities. What must we nurture—and what might we need to let go? In this closing keynote, Liedtka will weave together insights from across Design Forge to consider how we might move beyond designing interventions toward cultivating the conditions in which meaningful transformation can emerge, adapt, and endure.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ Jeanne Liedtka

Jeanne Liedtka is a professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, where she teaches MBAs and executives and consults on innovation, organic growth, and design thinking. With over 30 years of experience in corporate strategy, she previously worked as a strategy consultant at Boston Consulting Group and held leadership roles at Darden, the Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship and Corporate Innovation, and United Technologies Corporation.