Faculty

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.

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).