Heather Boesch is the business operations lead for IDEO Boston, and specializes in the intersection of design and commerce. Her primary focus is to help run the business of IDEO, but she also advises project teams, serves as a liaison between IDEO designers and clients and continuously works to adapt IDEO’s design process to meet specific client challenges. Before IDEO, she was based in the Middle East, serving as the director of operations for a logistics company run by tribal Sheikhs that endeavored to bring economic relief to communities adversely affected by war. She simultaneously co-founded New World Design, a collective of designers working on humanitarian projects in post-war Iraq, including potable water dissemination networks, wheelchair distribution, mobile medical services and affordable housing constructed from US military refuse. Boesch holds a bachelor’s with honors in economics from Harvard and a master’s in architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Track :
Business of Design
Session Title:
The Ever-Expanding Design Profession
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