Ayse
(pronounced Eye-Shay) Birsel is one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People
2017. She is the author of Design the Life You Love, A Step-By-Step Guide to
Building A Meaningful Future. On the Thinkers50 shortlist for talent, she gives
lectures on Design the Organization You Love to corporations. Ayse writes a
weekly post on innovation for Inc.com.
Ayse
designs award-winning products and systems with Fortune 100 and 500 companies,
including Amazon, Colgate-Palmolive, Herman Miller, GE, IKEA, The Scan
Foundation, Staples and Toyota.
She
is the recipient of numerous awards including Interior Design Best of Year
Award in 2018 for Overlay, a new Herman Miller system, multiple IDEA
(Industrial Design Excellence Awards) and Best of NeoCon Gold Awards, Young
Designers Award from the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Athena Award for
Excellence in Furniture Design from Rhode Island School of Design. Ayse is one
of only 100 people worldwide to be named as one of the Marshall Goldsmith 100
Coaches—a program Goldsmith conceived during Ayse’s Design the Life You Love
program—along with the President of the World Bank, the head of the Rockefeller
Foundation and the President of Singularity University. She is a TEDx speaker.
Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the MoMA, Cooper Hewitt
National Design Museum and Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Born
in Izmir, Turkey, Ayse came to the US on a Fulbright Scholarship and got her
masters degree at Pratt Institute, New York.
Books:
Sevdiğiniz
Yaşamı Tasarlayın (2015),: Design The Life You Love: A Step-by-Step (2015).
REFERENCE:
Ayse Birsel Bio (aysebirsel.com, 05.09.2021), Ayşe Birsel kimdir?
(istekadinlar.com, 05.09.2021), Ayşe Birsel kitapları (amazon.com.tr,
pegasuskitabevi.com, 05.09.2021).
