Ayse Birsel smiling, holding her book Design the LONG Life You Love

DESIGNER. AUTHOR. SPEAKER. COACH.

AYSE
BIRSEL

PRONOUNCED EYE-SHAY

Ayse Birsel is an award-winning designer, author, speaker, and coach. She uses design to help people and organizations imagine what’s next—and turn it into something they can build step-by-step.

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How we can work together

Design what’s next.

Whether you’re designing your next chapter, aligning a team around a shared future, or helping an audience think differently, Ayse brings the tools and mindset of design to the challenge.

01 — Individual

Executive Coaching

One-on-one, for leaders who just won and wonder, what now. We design your next phase together, from where you are to where you want to be, step by step. I am your coach and designer.

02 — Team

GROUP  COACHING

For teams and organizations at the end or beginning of a new initiative or project. We use Design Moves to get everyone out of their heads and into the same imagined future.

03 — Audience

Keynotes / Workshops

For corporate audiences who need to think differently about what’s next, with and without AI. I don’t lecture, I teach by doing. I put people through Design Moves live, on stage exercises that get them out of their heads and into their imagination. They leave the room changed, not just informed.

Testimonials

02Speaking

She speaks about designing what’s next.

Ayse has lectured at corporations and conferences from Amazon to Colgate-Palmolive; TEDxCannes to the Fast Company Innovation Festival. She is known for interactive, high-energy talks that leave audiences with tools they can take back to transform their work, their discipline and their life.

03Books

Books

Design the Life You Love book cover

Ten Speed Press · 2015

Design theLife You Love

What if you approached your life the way a designer approaches a problem? Instead of accepting the life you’ve been given, design one that reflects who you are, what you value, and what you want to become.

“A fun, interactive workbook for unleashing creativity and redesigning our daily lives.”

Adam Grant — Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take
Design the LONG Life You Love book cover

Running Press / Hachette · 2022

Design theLONG LifeYou Love

We are living longer than ever. But what if the question isn’t simply how long we live — but how we want to live those years?

“People casually use this term; this changed my life. In reality, they’re usually exaggerating, or it’s hyperbole. I can say for Ayse Birsel and her program, it did change my life in a huge way.”

Marshall Goldsmith — New York Times bestselling author of The Earned Life and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There
People casually use this term; this changed my life. In reality, they’re usually exaggerating, or it’s hyperbole. I can say for Ayse Birsel and her program, it did change my life in a huge way.

Marshall Goldsmith

New York Times #1 bestselling author of Triggers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

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