As Co-Founder and former CEO of LUMA Institute, Chris leads a highly-skilled, multidisciplinary team of designers and practitioners located around the world who are passionate about fostering the practice of design thinking among individuals, within teams, and across entire organizations.

Chris’s work has been cited in numerous national and international publications including Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, Wired Magazine, and Fast Company as well as several books about design and innovation.

Chris also served as an assistant professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University in the 1990's and was a guest lecturer at Harvard Business School from 2012 to 2016. He holds several IDEA Gold Medal Awards sponsored by Business Week and the Industrial Designers Society of America and has been awarded numerous US and EU patents for his work.