Roshi Givechi
- Design Strategist, Filmmaker & Facilitator
- United States
- Member since 2017
Roshi Givechi (she/her) channels a Portfolio Career model as a consultant. In service of designing for betterment, she loves to enhance mindsets and experiences, spark “a-has” and outcomes, and crystallize stories – including developing her own documentary film shorts.
She’s worked with founders of startups like Clever Girl Finance and (This is) ONWARD to fine tune ways to frame services to their public audiences; with transformation firm (Made to) TILT to co-create bespoke content as micro-podcasts to inspire leaders within Roche Pharmaceutical, and with big tech companies like YouTube to explore slices of fan and creator-related strategies. In other realms, Roshi was a story developer for an Imaginary Forces’ documentary on managing native forests called Beyond the Trees, and is a regular collaborator with conveners like HATCH (Experience) to co-architect global summits - guiding participants to address design challenges connected to UN Sustainable Development Goals while heightening leaders’ introspection and capacity for change.
Before consulting independently, Roshi worked at global design consulting firm IDEO for 19 years, lastly as Partner and Executive Design Director. Having worked across the Palo Alto, San Francisco, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo and New York studios – as well as being a Third Culture Kid – she’s accrued a reflex for interpreting culture, and an antenna for the changing nature of design’s role through products, experiences and systems aimed to bring disproportionate impact to the world.
Roshi has an MFA from Art Center College of Design and has taught at California College of Arts in San Francisco, and Stanford University in New York. She was profiled on I.D Magazine’s “I.D. 40” as one of the 40 leading design innovators – more than a minute ago. ;) And her conversation techniques are featured in Daniel Coyle’s book – The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups – where she is forever sandwiched between chapters on Pixar and The Navy Seals.
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