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1997 Winner
Lauralee received the inaugural Muriel Cooper Prize from the Design Management Institute. Her Cooper Memorial lecture, "At the Heart of Interaction Design," a series of inspiring design stories that celebrate our humanity, was lauded by former DMI President, Earl Powell: "Lauralee's extraordinary presentation was followed by a stunned silence; she had, indeed, deeply touched the audience's soul and intellect."
Lauralee is the president of Alben Design LLC and the founder of the Sea Change Design Consortium. She consults with organizations and coaches leaders in designing strategic transformations that foster integrity, innovation, and sustainability. Regarded as a thought leader at the intersection of design, business, and society, Lauralee conducts Sea Change Design workshops and gives keynotes to corporations, professional conferences, and academia including the Women's Forum for the Economy and Society in France, TED, Intel, SUN, Stanford, RISD, and Carnegie Mellon.
A pioneer of the Creative Economy, Lauralee Alben has consulted with several of the world's most innovative companies: Apple Computer, where she helped define personalized computing; Procter & Gamble, where she led a culture change within a research and development group that shifted inertia into a sustainable innovation capability; and Intel, where she developed a global marketing strategy for the Itanium Solutions Alliance. Lauralee has also consulted on global issues, from inspiring ocean conservation for the Monterey Bay Aquarium to searching for new ways to protect human rights in Uzbekistan.
Lauralee is one of I.D. Magazine's I.D. Forty: "one of the most influential people in design." Her articles have appeared in many computer, design and business publications. The Design Management Journal has published several including "Navigating a Sea Change." She is currently working on a book called "Designing Lives Worth Living." For sixteen years, until 2000, Lauralee was a principal of AlbenFaris Inc, a design consultancy that specialized in interactive experiences. Lauralee received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design; her master's equivalent from the Kunstgewerbeschule in Basel, Switzerland; and she is an alumna of the Prince of Wales's Business & the Environment Programme.
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