Kim Saxe
Lecturer, Stanford d.school Director, Innovation Lab at The Nueva School Kim recognizes and appreciates that design thinking has the potential to revolutionize education, and indeed, the world. Kim Saxe realized about twenty years ago that developing people is her life's work. It inspires all that she does. Kim is passionate about empowering children and adults to reach their full potential in the widest sense of the term. Kim has already taught the design thinking process to over hundreds of K-8 classes during the past school year at The Nueva School, which is a partner of the Institute of Design (d.school) at Stanford University She has been delighted to see the positive changes in her students' confidence and thinking skills already. Kim is known for creating engaging curriculum that has depth and complexity, teaching and fostering design thinking mindsets and strategies, and championing individuals who think with their hands. After a career in engineering, business, and education, Kim became the Director of the Innovation Lab at The Nueva School. Kim was one of four project leads at the d.school who helped to create the Innovation Lab. She has also taught workshops on design thinking, and she frequently speaks on this topic as well. In hindsight, Kim now realizes that everything that she has done in the past has prepared her to enhance the understanding of design thinking in others.