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Creativity is your birthright.
She leads design and builds what doesn't exist yet. Programs, experiences, creative cultures. From vision to the texture of how it feels when it's done.
Taught 20+ Stanford Classes
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50+ Fortune 500 Clients
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Led 100+ Workshops & Talks
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Live Audiences of 500+
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5k+ Executives & Leaders
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10,000 Online Learners
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100k+ Framework Downloads
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SXSW Featured Panelist
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Taught 20+ Stanford Classes · 50+ Fortune 500 Clients · Led 100+ Workshops & Talks · Live Audiences of 500+ · 5k+ Executives & Leaders · 10,000 Online Learners · 100k+ Framework Downloads · SXSW Featured Panelist ·
Elysa leads design and builds from the inside. Programs, experiences, and the infrastructure for how people create together. Rooted in the science of play and purpose. Designed for what people actually feel.
Better technology is part of it. So are people who know how to think, feel, and imagine in ways no model can replicate.
Four Areas of Expertise
Play & Creativity
Play is a core human capacity.
Research shows it's one of the strongest drivers of creativity and team performance. Most organizations have never tried it on purpose.
Innovation & Design Thinking
Better ideas start with better questions.
I work at the front of hard problems. Research, design thinking, futures frameworks. Pointed at what people actually need. Building toward what doesn't exist yet.
Purpose & Leadership
Purpose is a design problem.
The science of human flourishing is specific about what that takes. I help organizations design around what actually matters to their people.
Transformative Experience Design
Real change is felt.
I design for every layer: the physical environment, the program sequence, the relational care, the sensory detail. Experiences that move through the full emotional range, from play and humor to vulnerability and grief.
Collaborations With
Taught 20+ Stanford Classes
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50+ Fortune 500 Clients
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Led 100+ Workshops & Talks
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Live Audiences of 500+
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5k+ Executives & Leaders
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10,000+ Online Learners
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100k+ Framework Downloads
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SXSW Featured Panelist
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Taught 20+ Stanford Classes · 50+ Fortune 500 Clients · Led 100+ Workshops & Talks · Live Audiences of 500+ · 5k+ Executives & Leaders · 10,000+ Online Learners · 100k+ Framework Downloads · SXSW Featured Panelist .
Elysa’s Impact
Seventeen years building things that last. Tools, programs, and experiences that organizations keep using and people never forget.
Featured Speaker at SXSW
Lecturer at Stanford d.school
Designer-in-Residence at Google
Design Leader at IDEO
Fellow at Edmund Hillary Fellowship
Creative Director at Purpose Project, Greater Good Science Center
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TESTIMONIALS
What People Are Saying
“ Elysa is both grounded and wildly generative. She balances depth and intention with play and whimsy.”
— Carissa Carter, Academic Director | Stanford d.school
“Elysa was a leader within Google across the entire world in bringing design, art and empathy into Google products and services. In numerous products and events in multiple countries and regions, Oceania, Asia, Europe and Africa, Elysa designed and led training courses at the highest of professional and innovation levels, impacting hearts and minds.”
— Craig Warner, Former Head of Ideas and Opportunities | Google
“She is unbound. The space in her brain for ideation, creativity, innovation, playfulness, etc., has no boundaries. Her unapologetic artistry in a corporate environment created magical, visceral moments for so many Googlers. She transformed leaders with jazz, connected teammates in deeply vulnerable ways using only four walls, and propelled communities forward and together with waves. I feel grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Elysa because I got to see her work and process up close, and also because I know there is now a part of my brain that is unbound, too, thanks to her influence.”