Michele Ronsen

Founder & CEO, Curiosity Tank

San Francisco

Michele Ronsen is an executive with 20 years of experience in Fortune 500s, academia, and start-ups. Her earliest memory is of driving down the highway with her father. He asked her to look at a McDonald’s sign – the quintessential golden arches. He then asked her to draw what she thought the gear inside the sign (that made it spin) looked like. She was three years old.

A professionally trained graphic designer, Michele worked at top design firms before moving to Nordstrom where she built two creative teams from the ground up. From there she built a career helping numerous entities strategically design and grow their businesses.

In 2010, Michele founded Ronsen Consulting, a design and strategy firm specialized in human-centered research and development. In 2020, she founded Curiosity Tank to further expand the team's research consulting and education efforts. Recent clients include Slack, Zillow, Blue Shield of California, Xero, Facebook, Gusto, Invisalign, Microsoft and Kaiser Permanente.

Michele has inspired hundreds of students and professionals at UC Berkeley, the California College of the Arts, the Academy of Art University, and General Assembly teaching design, research and strategy classes and workshops. Learn more about Michele and Curiosity Tank consulting and workshops at www.curiositytank.com.