Manali Mohanty is an interaction designer, strategist, and yoga teacher. A seasoned design leader, she helps public and private sector organisations navigate transformation through the lens of customer-centricity. She has over two decades of experience working at the intersection of fashion and technology, partnering with industry leaders such as LVMH and Google. With a deep-seated entrepreneurial spirit, she co-founded a startup incubator and led an innovation lab within a Fortune 500 company. More recently, she has focused on service design in the healthcare and civic space.

Hailing from India and having worked in North America, Europe and Asia, she believes that a diversity of perspectives and experience add value to the practice of design. Manali is passionate about improving the communities she lives in, and co-founded DreamBig, an education nonprofit, and advised startups with Rev-Tech Ventures and Silicon Vikings. She has spoken at TEDx on applying design thinking to personal transformation, and teaches at her alma maters, Parsons School of Design and the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design.

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