Sally Augustin, PhD, is a practicing environmental/design psychologist and the principal at Design With Science. She has extensive experience integrating science-based insights to develop recommendations for the design of places, objects, and services that support desired cognitive, emotional, and physical experiences. Her Design With Science clients include manufacturers, service providers, and design firms in North America, Europe, and Asia. They book Design With Science's services again and again—applying neuroscience pays off. More information on clients and past work is available upon...
Joel Bennett, PhD, is President of Organizational Wellness & Learning Systems (OWLS), a consulting firm that specializes in evidence-based wellness and e-learning technologies to promote organizational health and employee well-being. Dr. Bennett first delivered stress management programming in 1985 and OWLS programs have since reached close to 250,000 workers across the United States and abroad.
Professor Emerita, Architecture Department, UC Berkeley
Galen Cranz is a designer, a consultant, and a Professor of the Graduate School in the Architecture Department at the University of California at Berkeley, where she taught social and cultural approaches to architecture and urban design, and established the field of Body Conscious Design. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago and certified as a teacher of the Alexander Technique with Thom Lemens of New York.
Cranz has lectured widely on her perspective on Body Conscious Design and taught her unique approach at craft schools including the Penland School of...
Research Director, Wellbeing at Work, Tampere University
Kirsi Heikkilä-Tammi is currently a Research Director of Wellbeing at Work Research Group at Tampere University. Wellbeing at Work is a multidisciplinary research group with the focus on enhancing wellbeing at work through multi-method research and development. Their research themes include wellbeing at work and productivity, wellbeing in digitalising work, leading and managing wellbeing at work, entrepreneurs’ wellbeing, and skills and competencies in changing work. They develop work and wellbeing through research-based, strategy- and customer-driven, and resource- and solution-oriented...
Director, Center for Health Promotion Research, NTNU
Siw Tone Innstrand is a professor in Occupational health psychology at the Department of Psychology and Director of Center for Health Promotion Research. She has a PhD from NTNU on the interaction between work and family.
Dr. Innstrand gives lectures and teaches in various fields such as occupational health, work environment, health promotion, intervention research and quantitative method. She has initiated and developed,...
Assistant Professor, Department of Design, Indian Institute of Technology
Gourab Kar is an architect, industrial designer and human factors researcher based in New Delhi, India. His interests lie in envisioning research-driven-design approaches to shape objects, spaces and experiences to be in tune with human needs, capabilities and behaviors. Gourab’s current research investigates approaches to reduce sedentary behaviors and increase physical activity in our everyday lives - at home, in school, and in our offices.
Gourab was a faculty member at the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad, India, where his research involved identifying...
Christina Maslach is a Professor of Psychology (Emerita) and a core researcher at the Healthy Workplaces Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard-Radcliffe College (1967), and her Ph.D. from Stanford University (1971), and has been on the Berkeley faculty since then.
Professor Maslach is the pioneer of research on the definition, predictors and measurement of job burnout....
Ragnhild Wiik has a multidisciplinary educational and research background. Her PhD is within genetics. Further, her education includes psychology, pedagogy, medicine, mathematics, and biochemistry. Recent research areas are education/pedagogy, productivity as influenced by indoor environment (included the psychosocial part), and public health. She is director of BI Norwegian Business School - campus Stavanger since 2011.
Professor, Hobby School of Public Affairs, University of Houston
Alan Witt brings years of first-hand experience working for both private sector firms and public-sector organizations to his role as an educator and researcher in academia. A White House intern at the age of 21, his experience spans work for multinational firms, privately-owned family companies, the Department of Defense, civilian federal agencies, and local and state public sector organizations.
Alan’s research focuses on strategy-cultural alignment and how leaders can shape the work culture so that employee values, priorities, and behavioral norms enable successful implementation...
Dr. Yelin is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Medicine and Philip R Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF and Core Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Center for Healthy Workplaces. Dr. Yelin has been researching the interaction between work and health for four decades, showing both how adverse working conditions affect the health of individuals and the working age population as a whole and, conversely, how persons with health problems can function in contemporary employment. Dr. Yelin has won numerous awards for his research, including election to membership in the...