Can we view life as a design project? What design principles can help us be more creative? Why should we start designing for the life we want as we grow older?
Ayse (pronounced Eye-Shay) Birsel is one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People 2017 and is on the Thinkers50 Radar List of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of organizations. She is the author of Design the Life You Love and gives lectures on Design the Work You Love to corporations. Ayse is the co-founder of Birsel + Seck, the award-winning design and innovation studio, and consults to Amazon, Colgate-Palmolive, Herman Miller, GE, IKEA, The Scan Foundation, Staples and Toyota, among others. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
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https://www.aysebirsel.com/
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Birsel + Seck
Ayse’s new book: Design the Long Life You Love
Ayse’e first book: Design the Life You Love
Books recommended by Ayse:
The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp
The Earned Life by Marshall Goldsmith
The Long Game by Dorie Clark
To be Honest by Ron A. Carucci
How to Begin by Michael Bungay Stanier
The restaurant Ayse would take you to:
Tonchin
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Production by Robert Pugliese
Edit by Fernando Queiroz
Cover Design by Eden Lew
Theme song by Emmanuel Houston
Indexed in the Library of Congress: ISSN 2833-2032