TEDxYouth@Castilleja - CHRIS FLINK

This speaker's experience with design goes back to when he was very young; for over thirty years his parents ran a small design firm in New York that focused on brand identity, consumer packaging and other graphic endeavors, and Chris Flink has followed in their footsteps.

Today, Chris is a partner at IDEO, one of the leading design firms in the world where he heads its largest practice, Consumer Experience Design, in the eastern U.S. He works with his old mentor, David Kelly, the founder of IDEO, who was his advisor and professor when Chris was a student at Stanford. After finishing at Stanford, Chris was an independent inventor and also gained experience at a consulting firm in New York. He successfully patented and licensed a few of his own goofy inventions, including an ergonomic shopping basket, and contributed to the designs of clever medical and consumer packaging systems.

Chris has degrees from Stanford's Engineering/Product Design program and from the Graduate School of Business. He's now a Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford, where he has taught courses on innovation and has served on the strategy board of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, or d.school, which he helped establish. He has also delivered guest lectures at Wharton and Columbia business schools.

About TEDx, x = independently organized event:

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• TEDxYouthDay
• TEDxYouthCastilleja
• Chris Flink
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