Recorded on 04/13/2022

Designing Your Life: How to Reimagine Your Work Life with Bestselling Authors Bill Burnett & Dave Evans

Would you like to share with close friends or colleagues?

Recorded on April 13, 2022.

If you’ve returned to the office in person recently, you’ve likely returned to a workplace that is quite different from the one you left two years ago. You’re not alone. According to a recent McKinsey survey, company leaders report that many of the changes that occurred in response to the pandemic, such as an increase in remote work and customer preference for virtual interactions, are likely to stay for good.

We are excited to invite the authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller Designing Your Life to our virtual stage. Stanford professors, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans, share strategies to help company leaders and employees reimagine the workplace and their work lives stemming from their latest book, Designing Your New Work Life. To help us navigate the continued uncertainty, Burnett and Evans share tangible tips, adaptable tools, and creative design guidelines that will help us navigate our way forward. With their step-by-step approach, Burnett and Evans explain how design thinking can not only transform our work lives for the better, but also enable us to identify new possibilities in all areas of our lives.

About Bill Burnett

Bill Burnett is an Adjunct Professor and the Executive Director of the Life Design Lab at Stanford. He received his Bachelors of Science and Masters of Science in Product Design at Stanford and has worked in start-ups and Fortune 100 companies, including seven years at Apple designing award-winning laptops and a number of years in the toy industry designing Star Wars action toys. He holds a number of mechanical and design patents and design awards, and, in addition to his duties at Stanford, he advises several of his students’ startup companies. 45 years, five companies, and a couple of thousand students later Bill is still drawing and building things, teaching others how to do the same, and quietly enjoying the fact that no one has discovered that he is having too much fun.

About Dave Evans

Dave Evans is a lecturer in the Product Design Program at Stanford. He holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford and a graduate diploma in Contemplative Spirituality from San Francisco Theological Seminary. While at Apple, he led product marketing for the mouse team and introduced laser printing to the masses. Having participated in forming the corporate cultures at Apple and EA, Dave decided his best work was in helping organizations build creative environments where people could do great work and love doing it. Helping people get traction on the question “What should I do with my life?” finally took Dave to Cal and Stanford and continues to be his life’s work. 

*Third-party prepared biographies are provided for informational purposes only; Cresset does not validate their accuracy or completeness.

Featuring

Bill Burnett

Bill Burnett

Co-Founder & Executive Director, The Stanford Life Design Lab
Dave Evans

Dave Evans

Co-Founder, The Stanford Life Design Lab

More Recent Events You May Like...

11/11/2025 - The Long Game: A Playbook of the World’s Most Enduring Companies

09/25/2025 - AI in Action: Redefining Middle-Market M&A 

06/12/2025 - On Character: General McChrystal’s Blueprint for Leadership in Turbulent Times