Shipra Kayan is a Facilitator and Design Leader. As a design leader, she has built inclusive, engaged and effective distributed design teams at companies like Upwork and Miro. As a facilitator, she has coached historically remote-averse enterprise companies to do effective product innovation work in a hybrid/remote setting.

Armed with two decades of experience teaching design teams to collaborate across time-zones, cultures, and knowledge silos, Shipra is a leading advocate for teaching and incorporating facilitation as a core design skill to designers at all levels.