Ravi Sawhney has spent more than forty years at the forefront of product and technology innovation. He is a serial entrepreneur, business leader, author, lecturer, and thought leader on design and innovation. He is founder and CEO of RKS Design, a forty-year-old design and innovation firm that has developed solutions for clients in diverse industries, incubated companies, created licensed products, assembled a high-caliber team of colleagues, and accumulated accolades from the media and design juries. He is also the Founder of LoanGifting, a technology platform that uses crowdsourcing and APIs to solve the student loan crisis by allowing students to pay down their loans through gifts and employer contributions. As Founder of D&A guitar gear, he created accessories that provide peace of mind to musicians around the world that rely on keeping their instruments safe and secure. D&A Accessories are used at all major events around the world including the Grammys, Academy Awards, Golden Globes, and Coachella Music Festival. As Founder of RKS Guitars, he worked with world-famous guitarist Dave Mason (Traffic) to create the world’s first sustainable electric guitar. RKS Guitars are played by some of the leading musicians in the world.
Sawhney is also the inventor of the Psycho-Aesthetics® design methodology, which Harvard Business Press has explored as a business school case study. Psycho-Aesthetics® is the central focus of Predictable Magic, a book co-authored by Sawhney and published by Wharton School Publishing in 2010.
Sawhney has been inducted as a Fellow in the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA) and recognized with an honorary Ph.D. from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He has spoken globally and at dozens of U.S.-based conferences as a keynote speaker, and lectures often at prominent design and business schools. Sawhney also contributes editorial on topics of design, business and innovation for FastCoDesign, HBR.com and Core77, and is the innovator/Jury Chair emeritus of IDSA’s Catalyst case program, championing design’s power to effect positive change in business, in lives and throughout the world.
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Ravi Sawhney
CEO and Founder, RKS Design
Ravi Sawhney has spent more than forty years at the forefront of product and technology innovation. He is a serial entrepreneur, business leader, author, lecturer, and thought leader on design and innovation. He is founder and CEO of RKS Design, a forty-year-old design and innovation firm that has developed solutions for clients in diverse industries, incubated companies, created licensed products, assembled a high-caliber team of colleagues, and accumulated accolades from the media and design juries. He is also the Founder of LoanGifting, a technology platform that uses crowdsourcing and APIs to solve the student loan crisis by allowing students to pay down their loans through gifts and employer contributions. As Founder of D&A guitar gear, he created accessories that provide peace of mind to musicians around the world that rely on keeping their instruments safe and secure. D&A Accessories are used at all major events around the world including the Grammys, Academy Awards, Golden Globes, and Coachella Music Festival. As Founder of RKS Guitars, he worked with world-famous guitarist Dave Mason (Traffic) to create the world’s first sustainable electric guitar. RKS Guitars are played by some of the leading musicians in the world.
Sawhney is also the inventor of the Psycho-Aesthetics® design methodology, which Harvard Business Press has explored as a business school case study. Psycho-Aesthetics® is the central focus of Predictable Magic, a book co-authored by Sawhney and published by Wharton School Publishing in 2010.
Sawhney has been inducted as a Fellow in the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA) and recognized with an honorary Ph.D. from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He has spoken globally and at dozens of U.S.-based conferences as a keynote speaker, and lectures often at prominent design and business schools. Sawhney also contributes editorial on topics of design, business and innovation for FastCoDesign, HBR.com and Core77, and is the innovator/Jury Chair emeritus of IDSA’s Catalyst case program, championing design’s power to effect positive change in business, in lives and throughout the world.
Ravi Sawhney has spent more than forty years at the forefront of product and technology innovation. He is a serial entrepreneur, business leader, author, lecturer, and thought leader on design and innovation. He is founder and CEO of RKS Design, a forty-year-old design and innovation firm that has developed solutions for clients in diverse industries, incubated companies, created licensed products, assembled a high-caliber team of colleagues, and accumulated accolades from the media and design juries. He is also the Founder of LoanGifting, a technology platform that uses crowdsourcing and APIs to solve the student loan crisis by allowing students to pay down their loans through gifts and employer contributions. As Founder of D&A guitar gear, he created accessories that provide peace of mind to musicians around the world that rely on keeping their instruments safe and secure. D&A Accessories are used at all major events around the world including the Grammys, Academy Awards, Golden Globes, and Coachella Music Festival. As Founder of RKS Guitars, he worked with world-famous guitarist Dave Mason (Traffic) to create the world’s first sustainable electric guitar. RKS Guitars are played by some of the leading musicians in the world.
Sawhney is also the inventor of the Psycho-Aesthetics® design methodology, which Harvard Business Press has explored as a business school case study. Psycho-Aesthetics® is the central focus of Predictable Magic, a book co-authored by Sawhney and published by Wharton School Publishing in 2010.
Sawhney has been inducted as a Fellow in the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA) and recognized with an honorary Ph.D. from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. He has spoken globally and at dozens of U.S.-based conferences as a keynote speaker, and lectures often at prominent design and business schools. Sawhney also contributes editorial on topics of design, business and innovation for FastCoDesign, HBR.com and Core77, and is the innovator/Jury Chair emeritus of IDSA’s Catalyst case program, championing design’s power to effect positive change in business, in lives and throughout the world.
