Kate Canales

Kate Canales joins the RGK Center as the Senior Fellow in Design Thinking and Innovation. Kate brings an expertise in how to utilize principles of design to teach social entrepreneurship.

 

Kate is a creative director at Frog Design with a background in product design, design research, and design strategy. Her work focuses on strategy and creative infrastructure design. She has built internal innovation teams for Fortune 500 companies, studied patient needs in hospital systems in the US and the UK, and created new board games for tweens. A systems thinker, Kate leads initiatives for clients looking to refine strategy or increase innovation capabilities in retail, online, consumer packaged goods, toys, financial services, and healthcare. Kate has been a guest lecturer at the University of Texas McCombs School of Business, the Acton School of Business, and the Stanford University Product Design program and has contributed to GOOD magazine, The Atlantic, and The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science.