Kristen Worley speaks as a leading authority on human-centered design, and how reimagining your business model through the design lens can create an integrated, resilient and sustainable business ecosystem, which celebrates diversity and seeks to leave no one behind.

The Worley Principles encourage companies and their directors and officers to become better stewards of their industry, by harnessing and harmonizing the enormity of our human diversity.  Agency change in human behaviour helps us become better leaders. These principles reimagine the impact of our brand and industry on individual lives, enabling cities and communities to thrive worldwide.  Her focus is on helping industries reimagine to an integrated ‘whole society approach’ with diversity at the foundation of all the decision points, and pivoting away from the silos/labels of DEI to a broad sweeping integrated approach to their business – and for many industries to utilize their brand and networks to influence their industry, supply chain and communities, nationally and or globally.

Kristen Worley is a leading human-centered designer in the field of architecture, who has combined her lived and industry experiences to elevate and influence industries and policymakers through collaborative engagement and learning, on how we think about diversity while ensuring integrated industry best practice and guidelines through every business touch point.

She’s been at the forefront internationally for more than two decades, as a global pollinator sharing her knowledge and experience working as a designer, educator and adviser to help guide and synthesize individual corporations from their brand development, workplace ecosystem, built environment, product development and innovation, supply chain due diligence and the connection to community, as they are intrinsically connected as a circular relationship.

She’s since founded The Inclusion Design Foundation, sharing a vision of an inclusive world. The design of the foundation is prefaced on the history of architecture, and its influence and impact on all persons within cities and communities seen through the design lens of ‘accommodation’, and the consequential impact and limitations design decisions can have on individual lives and broader social disconnection.

The Foundation, by utilizing the UN Guiding Principles (UNGPs), helps to create a starting point to reimagine and collaborate to remove diversity and inclusion barriers and the labels created historically over time based on centuries of industry and social development that is being tasked to answer 21st century issues it was never designed to do, creating human and environmental harm either in the workplace or community.

The UNGPs provide a framework for an industry pivot, from a place of ‘accommodation’ to an ‘integrated’ approach to occur, allowing for all persons and voices to be heard. Through the lens of human centered design, companies are encouraged to relook at their business model, creating a ‘whole society approach’ which brings together collaborative expertise and knowledge sharing, developing innovative insights, toolsets and guides to filling critical knowledge gaps within their company and industry and the broader ecosystem, aimed at elevating individuals lives and communities.

Worley shines a spotlight on the need for policies to be backed by evidence, research and integrated framework, on the role and power of diversity and inclusion at every decision point.

She’ll challenge your assumptions, as industries are being tasked more and more to be socially integrated and being more environmentally resilient and sustainable, while consumers and governments are demanding businesses to become more responsible and influential through their networks.

She’s now speaking in Canada and globally to share her personal story and industry expertise. She’s been featured across global industries, NGOs, federal and local governments and within the architectural and design community. She’s the author of her own story in the book Enough, and has been featured in the book: Canadian Courage: True Stories of Canada’s Everyday Heroes, inspiring true stories of Canadians who have bravely faced danger, adversity and injustice.