Build Test Repeat:
3 Steps to Achieve Your Impossible
3 Steps to Achieve Your Impossible
—Design Talk By Manali Mohanty
Designers and creatives use many tools to solve problems and find creative solutions. Yet we seldom think to apply these to our lives. What happens when we seek to design our lives, using these same tools? Manali will share insights from her TEDx talk, Build Test Repeat: 3 Steps to Achieve Your Impossible, on how to cultivate a growth mindset by applying the principles of design thinking to achieve goals and reach our full potential in our personal and professional lives. Beginning with her start as a young design student in India, her journey across the world to NYC, her challenges and triumphs as an international student and culminating in a most transformative mid-career sabbatical in Costa Rica. She will speak about how she’s had to continuously test and iterate at each step of the way in order to create a long, fulfilling and rewarding career in art and design.
LOCATION
College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas.
Art Building Room 365
1201 W Mulberry St, Denton, TX 76201
Art Building Room 365
1201 W Mulberry St, Denton, TX 76201
DATE AND TIME
November 8, 2023, 6:00 PM - 6:00 PM
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Manali Mohanty is a seasoned design leader who helps organizations navigate transformation through service design and the lens of customer-centricity.
With over two decades of experience in design strategy, Manali has helped Fortune 100 companies, start ups, and public sector entities in North America, Europe and Asia to bring transformative change to their organizations, products, and services. She seamlessly integrates her design thinking expertise with her mindfulness practice to facilitate deep-seated change.
She co-founded a startup incubator within a Fortune 500 company, launching four brands in a year, in a demonstration of customer-centric speed-to-market. As a member of the company’s innovation leadership, she was responsible for identifying whitespace in the market, opportunities for growth, and building both a culture and process of innovation.
Manali is passionate about improving the communities she lives in, co-founded DreamBig, an education nonprofit, and advised startups with Rev-Tech Ventures and Silicon Vikings. She has spoken at TEDx and CreativeMornings on design thinking, inclusivity, and personal transformation, and has lectured, set briefs, and mentored students at Savannah College of Art & Design, Florence’s Polimoda Fashion School, and at her alma mater, Parsons School of Design.
She holds degrees in Interaction, Industrial and Fashion design from three different continents, and has lived in the USA, Costa Rica and India. She solo-parents two boys and a neurotic dog, and grounds herself with meditation and yoga.
https://manalimohanty.com/
Manali Mohanty is a seasoned design leader who helps organizations navigate transformation through service design and the lens of customer-centricity.
With over two decades of experience in design strategy, Manali has helped Fortune 100 companies, start ups, and public sector entities in North America, Europe and Asia to bring transformative change to their organizations, products, and services. She seamlessly integrates her design thinking expertise with her mindfulness practice to facilitate deep-seated change.
She co-founded a startup incubator within a Fortune 500 company, launching four brands in a year, in a demonstration of customer-centric speed-to-market. As a member of the company’s innovation leadership, she was responsible for identifying whitespace in the market, opportunities for growth, and building both a culture and process of innovation.
Manali is passionate about improving the communities she lives in, co-founded DreamBig, an education nonprofit, and advised startups with Rev-Tech Ventures and Silicon Vikings. She has spoken at TEDx and CreativeMornings on design thinking, inclusivity, and personal transformation, and has lectured, set briefs, and mentored students at Savannah College of Art & Design, Florence’s Polimoda Fashion School, and at her alma mater, Parsons School of Design.
She holds degrees in Interaction, Industrial and Fashion design from three different continents, and has lived in the USA, Costa Rica and India. She solo-parents two boys and a neurotic dog, and grounds herself with meditation and yoga.
https://manalimohanty.com/
Co-hosted by
Design Department, UNT CVAD
AIGA UNT
North Texas Illustration Society, UNT
Design Department, UNT CVAD
AIGA UNT
North Texas Illustration Society, UNT