Dave Evans began his long history in innovation at Apple as leader of the first mouse design team, then as co-founder of Electronic Arts, and as a management consultant assisting startups and multi-nationals in strategy, marketing, and corporate culture formation. Upon discovering that his real passion is to help people discern and build the life they really want, he co-founded the Stanford Life Design Lab with Bill Burnett in 2007. Their book, Designing Your Life, How to Build a Well-Lived and Joyful Life, is a New York Times #1 bestseller. The Life Design Lab has thrived with its mission of applying the innovation principles of design thinking to the wicked problem of designing your life and is now expanding broadly across higher education globally.

Kathy Davies is an engineer and the Managing Director of the Stanford Life Design Lab, leading a team of Fellows who teach the popular courses Designing Your Life, Designing Your Stanford and Designing the Professional. Before joining Stanford, she spent 20 years leading technical teams on such diverse products as the world’s first Internet radio and heart surgery tools. Along the way she earned 5 patents. Davies also founded and leads DYL Consulting, consulting with universities and tech companies to bring product design tools and life design practices to their teams.

Colin Seale, educator, lawyer and author of Thinking Like a Lawyer: A Framework for Teaching Critical Thinking to All Students, will cover powerful, practical strategies that parents and educators can use to help students learn the habits they need to develop critical thinking skills. Seale shares how critical inquiry will empower our children to become engaged students and involved citizens who will lead, innovate, and engage with others to build better systems for everyone. 

Ron Lieber, veteran business reporter and best-selling personal finance and parenting writer, sheds light on the confusing and emotional question of what to pay for college. Drawing from his new book, The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make, Lieber shares the tough questions he poses to college presidents and pulls the curtain back on how colleges set their prices. He helps families navigate the college value proposition by summarizing the research and bringing context and clarity to both what matters and what doesn’t in making a financially-savvy decision.

Ron Lieber joins us again with a detailed blueprint for introducing kids to the basics of financial literacy, including allowance, chores, charity, saving, birthdays, holidays, cell phone charges, checking accounts, clothing, cars, part-time jobs, and college tuition. Drawing from his book, The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money, Lieber shows parents how to embrace the topic of money to help raise kids who are more generous and less materialistic, and who will develop the traits and virtues that will sustain sound financial values.