Benjamin Little
Innovation and Design Professor, Chair, and Leader
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Ben Little is the DGCE Chair of Design Innovation at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an instructor of strategy at Boston University and Harvard University’s Professional and Executive Development program. He has a background in product strategy and has worked extensively with corporate innovation programs and venture studios around the world.
Ben previously served as Head of Venture Strategy at Siemens Healthineers' digital incubator in Silicon Valley, VP of Design Strategy at Fidelity Investments in Boston, and as Head of Design Strategy at Sutherland Labs, a global insight-led design firm with studios in London and San Francisco. His work often centers on navigating the messy realities of human behavior, drawing from a foundation in anthropology and years spent as a strategy leader.
Ben holds a BA from the College of William & Mary and an MBA from the University of Oxford.
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UX Fair 2025
Panelist: Navigating the Future of Design
Harvard Webinar
What’s “Under the Hood(ie)” of the Innovation Process
Design for Dignity 2024
Workshop: Design for Dignity Canvas
9th R&D Innovation Excellence & Product Development Summit
Keynote: Design Thinking as a Strategy for Innovation
Design & Nature : Boston Design Week 2024
Opening Keynote & Emcee
IMPACT Innolead 2023
Design for Dignity
8th R&D Innovation Excellence & Product Development Summit
Timing innovation and product development
Boston Design Week 2023
Opening remarks
The Human Insights Summit
Panel: How we design, build and deliver diverse and inclusive products
anel: Building cultural awareness & inclusive design through research, design, and DEI
7th R&D Innovation Excellence & Product Development Summit
Frequency of innovation: Music as a metaphor for orchestrating strategy making activities
Cayman Enterprise City: Business Design Competition
Design Thinking: Empathy and Ideation for New Ventures (delivered remotely due to pandemic)
Ipsos Innovation in Research Forum
The good, bad, and ugly of agile (delivered remotely due to pandemic)
Design Thinking
Panel: Leading design teams (delivered remotely due to pandemic)
Customer Contact Week 2020
UX considerations across the end-to-end customer journey (delivered remotely due to pandemic)
Suffolk University Nature + Design Hackathon
Opening keynote: Design thinking crash course
Future Design: The Next 35 Years in an Evolving Industry
Panel discussion: Future of Design
Design Museum Foundation: Design Mornings
Reframing your blind spots: bias in design processes
Silicon Valley Comes to UK 2019
Masterclass: Human-centered strategy
Oxford Business Weekend
Panel: Perspectives on the 4th Industrial Revolution
Digital Transformation Summit 2019
How Siemens finds energy for change: Building the Siemens Healthineers Digital Incubator
Food Edge 2018
Design Thinking & Food Innovation
Design Thinking for Food Experiences
Workplace Innovation Summit 2017
Using journeys and narratives to design for employee experience
Digital Backoffice Summit 2017
Digital one office panel: Re-inventing culture to break down the barriers of the past
ISPIM Global Conference 2016
Building an innovation capability: The Story of Sutherland Labs
PDMA Boston: Innovate New England
IP Strategy Development
SCIP Global Conference 2016
Fast second: Using patent data to navigate around pioneer advantage
Mitsubishi Lecture
Open & closed strategy for new product development and go to market
PDMA Pittsburgh: Innovation: From Ideas to Success
IP Strategy Development
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