Bruce Mau is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Massive Change Network (MCN), a global design consultancy in the Chicago Area. Bruce is a renowned designer, innovator, educator, author and artist. His love of thorny problems led him to create a holistic, systems-based methodology for life-centered design that serves as the foundation for the MCN process and practice. Across nearly 40 years of design innovation, he’s collaborated with global brands and companies, leading organizations, heads of state, renowned artists and fellow optimists. Throughout his career, Bruce has, in the words of Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, “expanded the notion of what design is and expanded the potential scale of impact.” In these times of complex, interrelated challenges that are unlike any we’ve faced before, Bruce believes life-centered design offers a clear path towards identifying the full context of our problems and developing innovative, sustainable and holistic solutions.Along with MCN co-founder, Aiyemobisi “Bisi” Williams, Bruce created Massive Action, a global multidisciplinary immersive learning initiative to collectively design a better future. Bruce has a passionate interest in the art of books and has designed more than 250 of them. He became an international figure with the 1995 publication of his landmark “S,M,L,XL,” designed and co-authored with award-winning architect Rem Koolhaas. An author himself, Bruce’s most recent books are “MAU MC24: Bruce Mau’s 24 Principles for Designing Massive Change in Your Life and Work” and “THE NEXUS: Augmented Thinking for a Complex World — The New Convergence of Art, Technology, and Science,” co-authored with Julio M. Ottino. Bruce’s work and life story are the subject of the 2022 feature-length documentary, “MAU,” which premiered at SXSW in 2021 and has brought design into the cultural spotlight.Bruce is an adjunct professor and member of the UNSW ADA Academic and Executive Team and continues to serve as a visiting professor at academic institutions across North America, including Pratt Institute and the McEwen School of Architecture at Laurentian University in his hometown of Sudbury, Ontario. He is a distinguished fellow at Segal Design Institute McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University. A former William and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Professor at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Bruce holds an honorary doctorate from SAIC, an honorary doctorate from University of Sudbury and an honorary diploma from his alma mater, OCAD University, among other honorary degrees.