About Me


Lisa Kay Solomon is a designer in residence and lecturer at the Stanford d. school. Lisa focuses on bridging the disciplines of futures and design thinking, creating experiences like “Vote by Design: Presidential Edition” and "The Future’s Happening" to help students learn and practice the skills they don’t yet know they need. At the d.school, she teaches classes such as Inventing the Future where students imagine, debate and analyze the 50-year futures of emerging tech, and works closely with the K12 community to make futures thinking a mainstay of 21st-century core curriculum. Named to the Thinkers50 2022 Radar List and one of ixDA’s Women of Design 2020, Lisa co-authored the bestselling books Moments of Impact (Simon and Schuster, 2014)and Design A Better Business (Wiley, 2016), which has been translated into over a dozen languages. Lisa helped start the popular education podcast New View EDU with the National Association of Independent Schools, and created the popular LinkedIn Learning Courses Leading Like a Futurist. She continues to write extensively on helping leaders productively navigate ambiguity and embrace a long term perspective  through teachable and learnable practices.  

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