Sachiko Uozumi

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About Sachiko Uozumi

Sachiko Uozumi is an educator, advisor, and principal of Design is Love, based in New York City and the Hudson Valley. As a design leadership coach, design innovation consultant, and advocate for inclusive design with 30 years of experience, she believes design is a powerful force for driving change. She also teaches as an adjunct faculty member and lecturer at Parsons School of Design - The New School in New York City. At heart, she is a designer and maker, known for her unique approach to creativity and purposeful design. Through design, we can create positive and uplifting experiences for everyone. Her strength lies in bridging business, management, research, and design to deliver cohesive, unique, and impactful outcomes in every project she leads. She identifies common threads across diverse disciplines, sets goals, and visualizes viable and innovative solutions. ​ Her experiences in Japan, the U.S, Brazil, and Europe cultivated unique cultural insights, creativity, and design. These have equipped her to work in diverse fields such as design research, concept and design development, education, future studies, and future vision creation. ​ Sachiko continues to engage company sizes from startups, small to global corporations, to governmental, to educational organizations. From 1993 to 2003, she taught at Parsons School of Design's Product Design Department in New York City. In she began her independent consulting journey in NYC, and in 2015 co-founded Brainpool, a collective of design experts that specializes in helping organizations to bring radical and impactful consumer advocacy to the design table. Ten examples of her design work are in five museums’ permanent collections throughout the United States and Europe, including the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York City. She holds 22 patents internationally. Website: