Silke Bochat is Chair of Service Design at Savannah College of Art and Design (USA), where she’s exploring new ways to evolve design education, pioneering Service Design 2.0 and shaping the next generation of design talent. She is a design trailblazer and visionary thought leader with a remarkable 20-year career, leading in-house design teams in transformational roles at top-tier organizations including PepsiCo, Colgate, Mars, and Beiersdorf. Alongside her corporate impact in Design Strategy, DesignOps, Enterprise Design, Experience & Brand Design, Silke is at the frontier of innovation in HR through Design - rethinking design recruitment & careers, hiring & employee experience, reskilling, vendor & talent management, HR 5.0 transformation and digital org interconnectivity. Her achievements have earned her numerous prestigious Awards, including Brand Strategist of the Year 2024 and Top 30 Female Design Leader 2023, recognizing both her iconic design work and her leadership in scaling, integrating, and transforming design within complex and ambiguous organizations