Dr Tessa Forshaw is a cognitive scientist exploring how we work, learn, and create across the lifespan, especially alongside AI.
She seeks to help us understand how this technology is impacting us developmentally and how we can adjust designs, systems, and practices to ensure human flourishing. She is the Faculty Chair of the Workforce and Workplace Learning Concentration and the Faculty Director of the Workforce Learning and AI Initiative at The Harvard Graduate School of Education. Co-founding Scholar of Next Level Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Teacher of Design Thinking & Innovation at Harvard DCE, Stanford GSB, and Stanford d.school. Former designer at IDEO CoLab and Accenture. Award-winning designer (Core77, Fast Company), TEDx speaker, and co-author of Innovation-ish (Wiley, 2025).
