Lisa Kay Solomon

Lisa Kay Solomon teaches innovation and venture studio at the groundbreaking MBA in Design Strategy program at San Francisco's California College of the Arts. Building on her background in experience design, scenario planning, and business strategy, Lisa is passionate about helping leaders think originally and expansively about the future, and their role in creating it. She has brought her "Innovation Tradecraft" to executive teams in diverse organizations, such as Herman Miller Inc., Toyota Financial Services, Citrix, Stanford's Media X, and the Kauffman Fellows Program. She also works with educators to bring innovation and discovery skills into primary education through teacher and student workshops. Lisa has lectured at such leading business schools as Stanford University, University of California Berkeley, Cornell University, and the University of Virginia and has been published in Design Management Review, Businessweek.com, and on prominent blogs including Duarte Design and Watermark for Exceptional Women.

She is the co-author of the book Moments of Impact: Designing Strategic Conversations that Matter (Simon & Schuster, 2013) with Doblin Innovation's Chris Ertel, which describes how to apply design principles to high-stakes, open ended strategic challenges. Lisa holds an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business and a BA from Cornell University.