Ela Ben-Ur

After 13 years at innovation firm IDEO, Ela has devoted the last decade to working with educators and organizations making positive change with Design Thinking.

With them, she developed Innovators’ Compass, five powerful questions in all-free formats at innovatorscompass.org used from preschools to companies and communities to navigate challenges. She leads workshops at forums like SXSW, the National Science Teacher's Association, and MIT (her alma mater) and teaches courses from product design to life design at Olin College.

She loves the outdoors and fiddling in her band. Ela’s daughters are her inspiration.