Lissa Barnum is a Designer, Educator and Business builder. Her focus is on ‘community,’ maximising human potential through the application of Human Centred Design (HCD), methods. She is CEO and Working across the Corporate, Government and Educational sectors, she attributes her problem solving to ‘collaboration’, applying co-design and appreciative inquiry to market solutions. Through the creation of strategic frameworks, she helps support ‘change,’ for organisations as well as communities.
A practicing designer of 25+ years, Senior Lecturer & Academic of 16 years, her MBA (Uni. of Adelaide), in Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Commercialisation, is ideal partner to her Design experience applying Research, Impact (Measurement) & Sustainability, to client outcomes.
Lissa was born and raised in Mexico, hence her empathy for community. She’s fluent in Spanish and when not consulting or teaching in Sydney.
In this podcast Lissa mentions a book, famous now for designers, "The Design of Business" by Roger Martin, Dean Rotman School of Business, Toronto, CA until 2013.
And another book, "The Art of Possibility" by Benjamin Zander - Boston Philharmonic conductor and Rosamund Zander - Psychologist.
