Susan LK Gorbet

Susan is a futurist, designer and educator who mentors organizations on integrating design, business and futures thinking. She has developed transformative programs that brought futures thinking, design thinking, and facilitation to leaders and teams on six continents. She led the development of a design curriculum for Shad Canada that has incited thousands of secondary students to believe that they can change the world.

Susan holds a Master of Design from OCADU’s Strategic Foresight and Innovation program, and she has taught futures thinking, design thinking, facilitation and innovation to corporate leaders, MBA students and undergraduates. Previously, Susan spent many years with her partners at Gorbet Design building architectural-scale artworks that create connections between spaces, people and ideas. Before that, Susan spent a decade designing software in Silicon Valley where, after a short foray into graduate research at Stanford, she evangelized experience design at both enterprises and startups.