Designing Org Culture

Year by year

Cohorts

Every year the class has run, on one page — same template, different partners and challenges. A new year is one more row here, not a new website.

2026

Autumn · Current

Culture design for technological adoption and human flourishing.

Health domain partner

ValuesPracticesArtifacts
2025

Winter

Startup culture challenges, tackled as live design experiments.

Metaphysic AI, Intrinsic.ai, SYPartners

NormsStoriesMetrics
2024

Winter

Purpose-driven startups, and the culture of scaling climate work.

Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Blue Ocean Barns

ValuesNormsPractices
2023

Winter

Scaling culture in startups, taught as Design for Business.

BenchSci, Snappy, Spenmo

NormsPractices
2021

Fall

Culture practices for happy, effective teams.

Boba Guys, Mesa

ValuesNormsPracticesStories
2020

Winter · Ritual Design

Ritual Design for Better Workplaces, focused on well-being.

Stanford Medicine

PracticesBehaviors
2019

Winter · Ritual Design

Ritual Design pop-up, building a workplace ritual toolkit.

Airbnb

PracticesStories