Biography

Ayse (pronounced Eye-Shay) is one of Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative people and author of the book Design the Life You Love. She has led programs similar to REDESIGNING WORK at Amazon, Facebook, Herman Miller, Harvard Business Review. She has designed hundreds of award-winning products and systems for Fortune 500 brands. 

“Ayse will help your team connect to their purpose at work, sparking engagement and driving results. She is an amazing teacher, who has changed my life!” - Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times #1 bestselling author of Triggers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.

She is one of the Fast Company’s Most Creative People 2017  and is on the Thinkers50 Radar List of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of organizations.  She is the author of Design the Life You Love.    Recognized as #1 Coach in Life Design by Marshall Goldsmith Leading Coaches, she gives lectures on Design the Life + Work You Love to corporations. Ayse is the co-founder of Birsel + Seck, the award-winning design and innovation studio, and consults to Amazon, Colgate-Palmolive, Herman Miller, GE, IKEA, The Scan Foundation, Staples and Toyota, among others. Her design process, Deconstruction: ReconstructionTM, is the red thread across all her work. Her work can be found in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

You will find her blog, Design the Work You Love, on Thinkers50.