Now with Shilpi Kumar

Shilpi Kumar is the founder of Khoj Lab, a global innovation consultancy based out of Chicago. Her mission is to help business leaders discover new growth opportunities and optimize their processes as they scale innovation within their organizations using a human-centered approach.

She brings 15+ years of professional experience working as a Futurist, Design Strategist, Lead User Experience Researcher, Industrial Designer, Architect, and Design Educator in organizations, namely General Electric and Herman Miller. Before founding her consulting firm, Shilpi worked with GE Transportation Digital and Herman Miller. She worked closely with the operations and strategy teams to define an integrated business process for new product development and align innovation ideas to company strategy.

Over the last year, she has built a global team of multi-cultural, multi-lingual women who interact with clients in six languages- English, Hindi, Cantonese, Mandarin, French, and Spanish.

Shilpi specializes in taking an inclusive approach with an eye on bringing together diverse perspectives from people across the organization through research. Her team works as a liaison between design and business leaders while engaging clients in design-led methods and frameworks to enhance the value of their businesses further.

Shilpi has a Master of Design Methods from the Institute of Design at Illinois Tech Chicago, focusing on Innovation/Design Research/Strategy, a Master of Design from the Industrial Design Center at IIT Bombay, India, and a professional BArch from BIT Mesra, Ranchi, India.