Learning to listen, listening to learn

Saloni Mhapsekar is an Indian Product designer and artist empowering people to design meaningful experiences with a hint of play+learn. She specializes in designing for well-being and education, particularly for early-stage startups and family-focused products. Saloni vouches for designing experiences to include the excluded. She is motivated to design for social good and has previously designed for children with special needs and conducted co-design workshops for refugee children in Berlin. She works at Aumio, a startup that empowers children and their families to manage mental well-being. Saloni enjoys illustrating paranormal aliens, writing travel stories, and teaching design to immigrant women in ReDi School, Berlin.

Bettina is a Lead Service Designer based in McKinsey’s Berlin office and co-founder of Designing for Children’s Rights, a non-profit organization that works closely with UNICEF to integrate children’s rights and ethics into design. She actively brings her service design skills to public sector design and is co-author of a handbook on public sector innovation. Prior to joining McKinsey, Bettina taught service design and design research at Munich University of Applied Sciences and worked as a strategic design consultant in various industries in Asia Pacific, Europe, and the US.