Apresentação Pessoal

Katja Tschimmel, German by birth and Portuguese by choice, is consultant and executive trainer, researcher and lecturer, coach and conference speaker. She is working in both, the business world (Mindshake) and the academic (FEUP/Porto University and Porto Business School). Having a Ph.D in Design and a Masters in Applied Creativity, Katja researches, teaches and publishes in the fields of Creativity, Design Thinking and Innovation for more than 20 years. She publishes regularly in the area of creativity and design, having recently published the books Creativity and Innovation Affairs (2022), CriAtivaMente/TheCreativeMind/ CreA(c)tivaMente (2020), The Creativity Virus (2019) and Processos Criativos (2011). Katja is the author of the Evolution 6 Design Thinking model, which she applies in training and coaching of innovation teams in several kind of organisations. During 15 years Katja has being lecturer at the Art and Design College ESAD, where she coordinated the European project “D-Think - Design Thinking applied in Education and Training”.