Chetana Deorah is a product design leader and mentor who helps empower human-centered design to achieve high-impact business growth. Currently, she is Design Director at Coursera and a Program Partner at On Deck. Previously she led design at Netflix, Yahoo, Scribd, an early career at Pentagram, and founded her design studio in India. Her areas of expertise and focus include growth in emerging markets, responsible design, and compassionate leadership.
She volunteers her time to non-profit org Inneract Project and is a certified Hatha Yoga teacher. Based in Auroville, an international city in South India, her projects include multidisciplinary exhibit design, visual interpretation of Sri Aurobindo's poetry, and developing a "design thinking in action" education program.
