Building Your Life by Design is an experiential course, based on the proven and celebrated Designing Your Life (DYL) framework engineered at Stanford University. The “Designing Your Life” framework has evolved through rigorous research at Stanford’s Design Your Life Lab (d.life) offering programs, and conducting research that applies Design Thinking’s innovation principles to life, education, and career challenges. Over 300 universities have adopted the programme including Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Northwestern, among others.
The course will equip you with a holistic skillset and a proactive mindset to design and build your future with clarity by using the design thinking process at its core. You will be empowered to prepare for life’s uncertainties and ready yourself to move forward in a world full of ambiguity and change.
Navyug Mohnot is the CEO of QAI, a trans-national Process Improvement consulting organisation, and the Founder and CEO of QGLUE, a consulting, coaching, and training company helping enterprises and individuals adopt and embrace the “design-led way”.
He is a Stanford trained “Designing Your Life” educator for universities, a course based on Stanford University’s most popular elective for over a decade and a half. He is a visiting faculty at Ashoka University, bringing the course to India for the first time. Navyug is also a certified Leadership Coach from Harvard University. He has spoken at several conferences around the world and is a TEDx speaker (“Manifesting Desires, Embracing Contradictions”).
Navyug did his B.Tech from IIT Delhi and is the recipient of “Outstanding Contribution to National Development” from the IIT Delhi Alumni Association. He pursued a Fellowship for a PhD program in USA and dropped out to pursue his dream of coming back to contribute to the globalization of the Indian IT Industry.
He sits on the Boards of several companies, is a mentor and coach to several start-ups and is also an angel investor. He runs a film club, is a meditator, and aspires to direct a full-length film someday. Active with TiE and NASSCOM, he was Co-Chair for TiECon 2015, Asia’s largest gathering of entrepreneurs. He is on the Board of the Gunjan Foundation, and BeSingular, an ed-tech venture focussed on exponential technologies.
Dr. Manjusri Gopinath Nair
Teaching Fellow
Dr. Manjusri Nair is a certified Designing Your Life Facilitator of the famous eponymous Stanford University-created programme. She is a volunteer-educator trained in curricular pedagogy, who has taught and mentored high schoolers from Indian and international boards of education. Dr. Nair is a Robotic/Minimally invasive surgeon in Elective and Trauma Surgery of three decades of experience.
