Marlisa Kopenski

Marlisa Kopenski

Title
Director of Business Strategy

Present
After we explore the ”What If” I help our clients with the “What Now.” I help guide the development of a business strategy that will make the innovation successful.

Past
Brand Director/Senior Strategist Kahler Slater
Brand Manager Kraft Foods, Natural and Organic Products
Associate Brand Manager E.J. Gallo Winery, Fine Wine and Beverage Wines
Marketing for Gourmet and Fast Company magazines
Book Publicist at Viking Penguin Books
MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management

Passion
Learning new things; knowing a little about lots; never doing the same thing twice

Play
Distance running and wine drinking, often the two are correlated.

What is your first memory of design thinking?
Not first, but recent, I constructed a Lawn Chair by covering a rattan chaise with sod and watering it all summer. A Lawn Chair, get it?.