Justin Ferrell joined the Institute of Design at Stanford (aka "the d.school") in 2012 to design and direct its fellowship programme, a creative leadership accelerator for restless experts who want to transform their industries. The programme helps entrepreneurial professionals learn and apply design thinking to organisation design, to create and spread large-scale transformations. Since its launch, fellows have designed systems interventions in international development, food equity, philanthropy, K12 education, disaster relief, financial services, legal technology and federal workforce collaboration. Current fellows are also working on issues in health care, including childhood obesity, cancer prevention and clinical care for low-income communities. Justin is also designing the d.school's media experiments project, a hands-on exploration of digital storytelling and collaboration.
 A career journalist specialising in organisational behavior and design, Justin worked for seven years at The Washington Post, most recently as the director of digital, mobile & new product design. He brought the first mobile designers and programmers into the newsroom, and enabled collaborative teams of reporters, editors and developers to create groundbreaking work. Also a prolific visual storyteller, Justin designed the investigative series 'Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency,' winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, as well as four other Pulitzer finalists. He has spoken on creative culture in many venues, from the SXSW Interactive festival in Austin, to the Norwegian Research Council in Oslo, to the U.S. Embassy in Dublin, to Education City in Doha, Qatar.  Justin teaches Stanford graduate courses in design thinking, creativity and organisation design. He also teaches executives at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and his consulting clients have included Hewlett-Packard, IDEO and Citi Ventures. He has led many innovation workshops, including sessions for Facebook, Google, Infosys, Knight Foundation, SAP, The United Nations, the U.S. Department of State and the World Economic Forum.