Designed and managed a diverse portfolio of innovation and creativity programming ranging from remote, daily hands-on activities to live experiential design sprints. Solutions ranged from inspired bespoke live experiential design sprints (one event, focused on better understanding and designing for creators, sent Googlers on experiential field trips throughout Hollywood to get inspired by doing improv and stand-up, to film-making, to cutting edge vr to graffiti art. Another social impact driven design thinking event sent Googlers to the streets of Detroit to uncover and develop rapid technical life-saving solutions for emergency/fire services in the city. Another event sent Googlers through the streets of Japan to learn about cultural mastery as it informs technical mastery. Elysa’s work began with bespoke design sprints around the world. This led to the development of a course entitled Start Up’s to Scale Up’s which integrated innovation process with Google process. 

Elysa became known for immersive creative impactful learning experiences which launched her into focusing on leadership and people development. She built inspired learning experiences, bringing in jazz musicians to teach senior leaders how to be great improvisational managers. She built a women’s leadership summit for 50 people that received such high praise that it set the blueprint for the next year’s global summit of over 500 attendees. The summits integrated experience design (from the touchpoints of each attendees journey), to large scale art installations (creating space for vulnerable dialogue in formerly unsafe spaces), to content design and facilitation. These summits served to jumpstart transformation for diversity groups, first working with women, then supporting other groups including the South East Asian group and the Latinx group.