About
Bryan Yuji Walker is an Associate Partner and Business Lead at IDEO. Based in Palo Alto, he co-leads the organizational design practice and is responsible for the practice’s business and content. He actively pursues new ways that designers can catalyze and support massive change of complex, human systems, and has worked with organizations in a diversity of industries (from financial services to health care to consumer products). He is passionate about helping organizations design innovation strategies that build upon existing assets to meet future needs and goals—and ultimately support enterprise-wide transformation.
Bryan’s work has been widely recognized by a multitude of organizations. His innovative design research on a baby stroller was awarded the product design of the year by the Human Factors Ergonomic Society. This stroller was later featured in the Smithsonian, exemplifying a radical design departure that continues to influence today’s stroller craze. His work has also been written about in BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Fast Company.
In addition to his work at IDEO, Bryan lectures at Cornell University, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and the California Center of Arts. He regularly speaks on the topics of design thinking, organizational design, and service design.
Bryan received his master’s in social anthropology from Oxford University and holds a bachelor’s in design and environmental analysis from Cornell University. Outside of work he can be found chasing the perfect wave, regardless of how far off the beaten path it takes him.