Mike founded and now helps oversee IDEO in Japan and greater Asia, leading key client relationships, guiding projects, and mentoring design teams. He is a visiting lecturer at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID), Tokyo University, Keio University, and Kyushu University and previously worked as an adjunct professor at NYU's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, teaching public policy, urban planning, and nonprofit management students how to use design thinking to solve complex problems.

Prior to joining IDEO, Mike worked as a senior lab informatics analyst at Johnson & Johnson. Mike graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a degree in cognitive science and an emphasis in neuroscience. In his spare time, he plays tennis competitively (his high-school court is named after him!) and is an amateur hip-hop dancer who finds solace in reality TV and celebrity gossip.

Heather leads IDEO's Global Learning & Development Team and the strategy, design, and implementation of a promise—to ensure IDEO is an organization that offers everyone, regardless of role or level, the opportunity to become a world-changing creative leader. She believes that there is a present, emerging, or future leader inside every one of us. She makes it her mission to ensure everyone finds their authentic expression, expanding the definition of what goods looks like, and inspiring the world to grow a little more every day.

Heather has an MFA from The New School and a bachelor’s degree in English from Barnard College. She led the creation of IDEO’s first global leadership development programs—beacon events that target moments of career transition. What catapults her out of bed every morning is the chance to help others to find their strengths, seize agency, see opportunities that were previously unimagined, and make a plan to achieve it.