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Curious to learn how you can apply strategic design to your job and company? Â
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Join Melissa Rancourt, Academic Director of the M.S. in Strategic Design for Global Leadership program at Parsons Executive Education to learn about the principles and process of strategic design, and how design innovation can help you catapult your business into directions that create transformative growth and sustainability. During this interactive learning and discovery session, you will be able to explore design tools that can be immediately applicable in your workplace, and also have the opportunity to grow your professional network.
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Don't miss this opportunity to learn more about strategic design and how Parsons Executive Education can help you and your organizations through design-oriented open enrollment, long-form and custom programs.Â
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This informational workshop is free to join and spaces are limited.
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Melissa leads the Master of Science in Strategic Design for Global Leadership Degree at Parsons School of Design.  This degree, designed for professionals, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs who have already forged a path in their professional lives, is 18-months in length and includes experience in three international intensives in Paris, New York and Shanghai.
Parsons Executive Education operates at the intersection of design and the global socioeconomic trends transforming our organizations and communities. Our programs are designed for industry leaders and entrepreneurs who have the courage to engage in high-impact learning—those who come at challenges differently, celebrate creativity, and are capable of acting in the face of continuous change. While most curricula focus on ROI, our programs take you on a journey that delivers Return on Design (ROD)—improved performance, increased resilience, dynamic new customer experiences, and maximum growth. Learn more about us here.
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Melissa leads the Master of Science in Strategic Design for Global Leadership Degree at Parsons School of Design.  This degree, designed for professionals, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs who have already forged a path in their professional lives, is 18-months in length and includes experience in three international intensives in Paris, New York and Shanghai.
Melissa Rancourt is a long-time educator for leaders, companies and governmental institutions on the subject of innovation, creativity, disruption and transformation. Born in Italy to parents of Greek & French heritage – raised in 10 states in the USA – and now a citizen and resident of Brussels for the past 18 years, she brings this mix of international cultures to her approach to business and societal impact.
For more than twenty-five years, Melissa Rancourt has worked to help organizations and individuals globally to develop their creativity and skills to share their work, expand their reach, and motivate their teams. Her background is varied – an Industrial Engineer starting in manufacturing and healthcare to University Faculty teaching several technical and business subjects to an Entrepreneur who loves to create businesses. Melissa uses all these professional backgrounds and experiences to bring Strategic Design to the forefront in companies and to show how the design process and tools can be used to infuse the culture with creativity to transform new ways, products and services for the future.Â
She addresses professional audiences at international conferences on business and societal subjects. She was recently a speaker at Cannes International Festival of Creativity in France and The NextWeb in Amsterdam on the subject of Design Thinking. She is a two-time TEDx speaker for Brussels and Luxembourg, a United Nations speaker on Human Rights, a Parliament speaker on equality, a Moderator for the preparations of the European Election and presents at events of all sizes in Europe, the Americas and Asia. She has appeared on the US TV show Living Abroad, Bloomberg, Euronews and several other media.
A practitioner-scholar, academic administrator and design strategist, Mariana Amatullo joined The New School as full-time faculty in the School of Design Strategies (SDS) at Parsons School of Design in 2017. In addition to her teaching in SDS where she is also part of the core faculty of the university's Graduate Minor in Civic Service Design, she serves in the university's Provost office as Vice Provost for Global Executive Education and Online Strategic Initiatives. In this role she oversees the university's executive education division in line with The New School’s preeminence in the creative and design fields. Her position calls for building open-enrollment executive education programs, global executive masters, and bespoke large-scale programs tailored for corporate and enterprise partners, as well as further advancing the strategy and delivery of online degree and certificate programs and forging new partnerships in Continuing and Professional Studies. Prior to joining The New School, Mariana led the award-winning social innovation department, Designmatters at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California which she co-founded in 2001. Mariana writes and lectures internationally about design, design management and social innovation and serves on a variety of international juries, and executive and advisory boards in design and the arts. She is the President of the Cumulus Association, the leading global association of art and design education and research; in January 2022 she joined the Board of Aalto University in Finland.
Mariana’s academic research and publishing bridge the design and management fields and examine the role of a design attitude as a cognitive approach to social innovation and organizational learning. Her editorial projects include Design for Social Innovation: Case Studies from Around the World, (with Bryan Boyer, Jennifer May and Andrew Shea, Routledge, 2021); LEAP Dialogues: Career Pathways in Design for Social Innovation as lead editor and the open-source LEAP Dialogues: The Educator’s Guide. A Global Fellow with the Royal Society for the Arts (RSA) and Salzburg Global, Mariana is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Inaugural DELL Award for Outstanding Social Innovation Education (2012).
She holds a Ph.D. in Management (Designing Sustainable Systems) from Case Western Reserve University, an M.A. in Art History and Museum Studies from the University of Southern California, and a Licence en Lettres Degree from the Sorbonne University, Paris, where she also studied Art History at L’Ecole du Louvre. A native of Argentina and the child of a diplomat, Mariana grew up around the world.