About Elysa Fenenbock
Elysa Fenenbock is a design leader and builder who creates experiences and programs grounded in the science of play and purpose, helping people and organizations do their best, most human work.
She works inside organizations, embedded in the work itself, leading design teams and always pointed toward what doesn't exist yet.
What's stayed constant across 17 years and very different contexts is what she cares about: helping people flourish deliberately. At Stanford's Design School, Google, SRI, IDEO, and UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center, she's built the tools and frameworks that make it real.
She calls herself a possibilitarian. Her greatest strength is sparking imagination in the people she works with, helping them build toward what they hadn't thought possible.
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“Creativity is medicine.”
Research shows 98% of five-year-olds test as creative geniuses. By adulthood, it's under 3%.
Elysa has spent her career designing the practices and experiences to rebuild what time and systems have eroded.
She founded The School of Psychedelic Design and developed one of the first frameworks for designing psychedelic and healing experiences, bringing design methodology into a field that had never seen it before.
Her forthcoming book, Creativity Is Medicine, is a science-backed guide to what she's always believed: recovering creativity is one of the most powerful things a person can do for their health and their life.