Steve Bishop
Steve brings design thinking to the challenges and opportunities of sustainability. As global lead of sustainability at IDEO, he helps companies build their brands, generate new offerings, and shape their innovation processes with positive environmental impact. His experience ranges across several industries, from automotive and consumer products to medical devices. He’s helped design award-winning office furniture, packaging, instrument panels for hybrid electric vehicles, and medical injection devices, for which he holds patents.
In 2007, Steve launched a course at Stanford University on sustainable design, and he’s developing a sustainable design program for the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (the “d.school”). He also teaches a course on design engineering at Stanford.
Steve regularly speaks at conferences, universities, and other events and has been published in various journals, including Rotman, Harvard Business Review Online, and Men’s Health. Steve holds a BA in Film and Media from the University of Texas, Austin, and a masters degree in Product Design from Stanford.
Topics Steve speaks on:
- Consumer Experience Design
- Design for Environmental Impact
Prior speaking engagements:
2007, Sustainable Brands Conference, speaker
2007, Wal-Mart Sustainability Summit, Bentonville, speaker
2007, Net Impact, Chicago, panelist
2007, Sustainable Brands Conference, New Orleans, speaker
2008, USGBC Greenbuild conference, Boston, speaker
2008, National Trust’s ‘making choices’ conference, New Canaan CT, keynote
2008, Greentech Innovations Conference, New York, keynote
2008, CPG Panel, Stanford's Graduate School of Business, panelist
2008, Sustainable Brands, Monterey, speaker
2008, Net Impact, Nashville, speaker
Published works:
“15 Pursuits of Tech,” Men’s Health 2008 Tech Guide (January 2008)
“Don’t Bother with the Green Consumer,” Harvard Business Review Green, (January 2008)
“From Plague to Paradigm: Designing Sustainable Retail Environments,” Rotman magazine (Spring 2008)
Leading Green, Harvard Business Review Online, 2008