In January: Designing Your Family Life

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In January

Designing Your Family Life

Reframing College (and Your Kids!)

DAVE EVANS

and

KATHY DAVIES

Stanford Life Design Lab

Thurs Jan 14, 7pm-8:15pm PT

DETAILS & REGISTER

Registration closes two hours before the event.

Free for member school parents and for educators.

Dave Evans, co-founder of Stanford’s Life Design Lab, and Kathy Davies, its managing director, will guide parents through the design thinking process to inspire our pre-college kids to confidently design their own futures in a changing world. Evans and Davies will share design thinking strategies that will help our students reframe thinking, problem solve like designers and apply these strategies to planning college (and beyond).

Dave Evans began his long history in innovation leading the first mouse design team at Apple, then as a co-founder of Electronic Arts, and as a management consultant assisting startups and multi-nationals in strategy, marketing, and corporate culture formation. Upon discovering that his real passion is to help people discern and build the life they really want, he co-founded the Stanford Life Design Lab with Bill Burnett in 2007. Their book, Designing Your Life, How to Build a Well-Lived and Joyful Life, is a New York Times #1 bestseller. The Life Design Lab has thrived with its mission of applying the innovation principles of design thinking to the wicked problem of designing your life and is now expanding broadly across higher education globally.

Kathy Davies is an engineer and the Managing Director of the Stanford Life Design Lab, leading a team of Fellows who teach the popular courses Designing Your Life, Designing Your Stanford and Designing the Professional. Before joining Stanford, She spent 20 years leading technical teams on such diverse products as the world’s first Internet Radio and heart surgery tools. Along the way she earned 5 patents. Davies also founded and leads DYL Consulting, consulting with universities and tech companies to bring product design tools and life design practices to their teams.

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Our Fall 2020 Common Ground Speaker Series events will take place live online. Please register for each event to receive webinar access, reminders and updates. Registration closes two hours before the start of each event.

Parents, faculty and staff at our 44 member schools attend the Common Ground online events free of charge. This is made possible through the generous financial support of their schools.
Faculty and educators from non-member schools are also invited to attend free of charge.
Guests from non-member schools and the general community are welcome to register and attend the virtual live stream events for a $10 non-refundable fee.

Registration details and more information about Common Ground Speaker Series, including a list of our member schools, may be found on our website.