
Kristi Woolsey joined Carnegie Mellon in 2018 as an adjunct professor at the Integrated Innovation Institute. She is a consultant, designer, future-strategist, and speaker focused on identifying the behavioral patterns that have and will continue to appear in response to new technologies. Kristi began as a professor researching the influence physical space has on behavior. She left academia to launch her own firm, providing Architecture, Interior Design, and Construction, and the firm quickly become the largest woman owned firm in the west (2001). Recognizing the workplace transitions being driven by technology changes, she turned her focus to consulting in 2006, helping companies understand workplace strategy in a changing future environment. In 2014, she joined MAYA design, a technology innovation firm. Kristi has been interviewed by and quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Bloomberg and others. She has taught or lectured at Arizona State University (Architecture and Business), UCSD Rady School of Management, SCIArch Los Angeles, University of Maryland, UT Austin, and many others. -from cmu.edu