The room
People
Everyone who has taught the class or come in to teach alongside it. Like the partner list, this one accumulates — a name earns a year and stays, and some names come back in a different chair.
This year
Autumn 2026
Teaching team
Kursat OzencLead
Executive Design Director, JPMorganChase
2019 · 2020 · 2021 · 2023 · 2024 · 2025 · 2026
Shannon Mahon
Organizational Design Lead, Google DeepMind
2026
Guest speakers
Martin Gonzalez
Principal of Org Design and Development, Google DeepMind
2023 · 2024 · 2025 · 2026
Bob Sutton
Stanford University
Creative rituals
2026
Elen Kiss
Nubank
Employee pathways
2026
Previously
Past years
Teaching team
Martin Gonzalez
Principal of Org Design and Development, Google DeepMind
2023 · 2024 · 2025
Ida Benedetto
Experience Director & Design Strategist
2021
Anand Upender
Creative Technologist
2021
Teaching assistants
Gabi Gavrila
PhD student and sociologist
2021
Sonya Kotov
2023
Jeung Lee
2024
Gatsby Frimpong
MS Design ’25
2025
Coaches
Alan Ratliff
Prototyping expertise during the ideation session
2025
Ian Stuart
Joined the ideation session alongside Alan
2025
Guest speakers
Claudy Jules
Partner, McKinsey
Challenges in scaling culture in startups
2023
Darren Murph
Head of Remote, GitLab
Building culture in remote working teams
2023
Gina “Maya” Rudan
Cultural Alchemist, Google X
Cultural practices at X, including the Día de los Muertos initiative she led
2023
Michael Norton
Harvard Business School
Rituals and the IKEA effect
2023
Lisa Wocken
DAO researcher; founding member, TalentDAO
Culture in blockchain-based DAOs
2023
Takuo Fukuda
SYPartners
Discovery share-out expert
2023
Kate Judson
Adobe
Employee pathways
2023 · 2024 · 2025
Laïla von Alvensleben
Head of Culture & Collaboration, MURAL
Creative rituals
2025
Christian Busch
Author, The Serendipity Mindset
2025
Anna Davda
formerly Waymo
Co-creating with ethics
2025
Robbie Tilleard
Applied behavioral scientist — UK Behavioural Insights Team, Humu, Fluidly
Outside-In Speaker Series I
2021
John Paul Stephens
Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Case Western Reserve University
Outside-In Speaker Series II
2021
Monica C. Worline
Faculty member, Center for Positive Organizations, University of Michigan Ross School of Business
Human flourishing, wellbeing, and positive organizational scholarship
2021
Iris Bohnet
Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, and co-director of the Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School
Shaping norms — culture as stories, and DEI
2021
Natalia Vasquez
Climate, IDEO
Understanding the sustainability landscape
2024
Lisa Gross
ChargePoint
Scaling challenges
2024
Prasita Kutty
ChargePoint
Scaling challenges
2024
Michael Hughes
ChargePoint
Scaling challenges
2024
Before the course
Ritual Design classes
Designing Org Culture grew out of the Ritual Design for Better Workplaces classes of 2019 and 2020. The people who taught those taught ritual design, not this course.
Teaching team
Ted Matthews
Oslo School of Architecture and Design
2020
Kajal Khanna
Stanford Medicine
2020
Josh McVeigh-Shutz
San Francisco State University
2019