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  • Manali Mohanty

    Part-time Lecturer

    Email
    moham611@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    L - 2 West 13th Street

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    Manali Mohanty

    Profile

    Manali Mohanty is a seasoned design leader who helps organizations navigate transformation through service design and the lens of customer-centricity.

    With over two decades of experience in design strategy, Manali has helped Fortune 100 companies, startups, and public sector entities in North America, Europe and Asia to bring transformative change to their organizations, products, and services. She seamlessly integrates her design thinking expertise with her mindfulness practice to facilitate deep-seated change.

    She co-founded a startup incubator within a Fortune 500 company, launching four brands in a year, in a demonstration of customer-centric speed-to-market. As a member of the company’s innovation leadership, she was responsible for identifying whitespace in the market, opportunities for growth, and building both a culture and process of innovation.

    Manali is passionate about improving the communities she lives in, co-founded DreamBig, an education nonprofit, and advised startups with Rev-Tech Ventures and Silicon Vikings. 

    She solo-parents two boys and a neurotic dog, and grounds herself with meditation and yoga.

     

    Degrees Held

    Manali holds degrees in Interaction design from The Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID), Industrial design from the Parsons School of Design and Fashion design from The National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT, Delhi).

    Performances and Appearances

    Manali has spoken at TEDx, University of North Texas, and CreativeMornings on design thinking, inclusivity, and personal transformation, and has lectured, set briefs, and mentored students at Savannah College of Art & Design, Florence’s Polimoda Fashion School, and at her alma mater, Parsons School of Design.

    Research Interests

    Trauma informed design, design for mental health, sustainability

    Awards And Honors

    US patent holder: Inventor, Timepiece with movable case

     

     

     

     

    Current Courses

    Design Studio 6
    PUPD 4011, Spring 2025

    Dynamic Media
    PUPD 3080, Spring 2025

    Past Courses

    Design Studio 3
    PUPD 3010, Fall 2024

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