01 — Individual
Executive Coaching
One-on-one, for leaders who just won and wonder, what now. We design your next phase together, from where you are to where you want to be, step by step. I am your coach and designer.
DESIGNER. AUTHOR. SPEAKER. COACH.
AYSE
BIRSEL
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Ayse Birsel is an award-winning designer, author, speaker, and coach. She uses design to help people and organizations imagine what’s next—and turn it into something they can build step-by-step.
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Design what’s next.
Whether you’re designing your next chapter, aligning a team around a shared future, or helping an audience think differently, Ayse brings the tools and mindset of design to the challenge.
02 — Team
GROUP COACHING
For teams and organizations at the end or beginning of a new initiative or project. We use Design Moves to get everyone out of their heads and into the same imagined future.
03 — Audience
Keynotes / Workshops
For corporate audiences who need to think differently about what’s next, with and without AI. I don’t lecture, I teach by doing. I put people through Design Moves live, on stage exercises that get them out of their heads and into their imagination. They leave the room changed, not just informed.
Testimonials
02Speaking
She speaks about designing what’s next.
Ayse has lectured at corporations and conferences from Amazon to Colgate-Palmolive; TEDxCannes to the Fast Company Innovation Festival. She is known for interactive, high-energy talks that leave audiences with tools they can take back to transform their work, their discipline and their life.
03Books
Books
Ten Speed Press · 2015
Design theLife You Love
What if you approached your life the way a designer approaches a problem? Instead of accepting the life you’ve been given, design one that reflects who you are, what you value, and what you want to become.
“A fun, interactive workbook for unleashing creativity and redesigning our daily lives.”
Running Press / Hachette · 2022
Design theLONG LifeYou Love
We are living longer than ever. But what if the question isn’t simply how long we live — but how we want to live those years?
“People casually use this term; this changed my life. In reality, they’re usually exaggerating, or it’s hyperbole. I can say for Ayse Birsel and her program, it did change my life in a huge way.”
People casually use this term; this changed my life. In reality, they’re usually exaggerating, or it’s hyperbole. I can say for Ayse Birsel and her program, it did change my life in a huge way.
Marshall Goldsmith
New York Times #1 bestselling author of Triggers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
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