Susie Wise
Susie is the author of Design for Belonging: How to Build Inclusion and Collaboration in Your Communities (2022), an illustrated framework for building trust and respect within teams and communities by reducing othering. As a design leader with experience in the education, tech, and social sectors, Susie loves to help create dynamic, equity-centered organizations. She teaches at the d.school at Stanford and coaches leaders in equity design and innovation practices.
Susie founded and led the d.school’s K12 Lab in her previous work, where she co-created School Retool, the Shadow a Student Challenge, and Liberatory Design. Her days are driven by the desire to use design to help end White supremacy culture. She believes that, as humans, we are all designers and that hard work can be joyful. These are some of the reasons why Susie likes to work across difference. It is also the reason why her leadership reflects the path of a monk – steady, day-by-day, practice, practice, practice.
When she is not exercising her design skills in professional life, Susie is working them at home, where her teenage daughter needs the motivation to clean her room. She believes that accomplishing this will provide insights into how to change the world. Other insights come from her love of hiking and kayaking and her daughter’s culinary creativity.
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