Jeanne Liedtka is the UTC Professor of Business at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business, where she has taught Design Thinking to thousands of people, both students and executives, and to hundreds of thousands in her popular online Design Thinking courses on the Coursera platform. Beginning her career as a strategy consultant for the Boston Consulting Group, Jeanne has also served as Chief Learning Officer at United Technologies, and as the Senior Associate Dean of Darden’s MBA Program. She has written seven books and many articles on the subject of strategy, innovation and design thinking, in both the private and the service sector. Her most recent book, Experiencing Design: The Innovator’s Journey was published in July, 2021.