AKIRA MORITA
Akira MORITA is an innovation consultant with 17 years of experience helping teams grow, transition into new arenas, create new services and products, and tighten their strategies and goals. His focus has always been fostering conversations and collaborations that spark change, be it an honest talk about tough transitions, an open ideation sprints, or an expansive dialogue about what could be, among those familiar with each other or strangers across cultures and disciplines.
He works with clients from Cambodia, the US, Europe and SE Asia: UNDP, USAID, CARE International, CAFOD, People In Need, Duke University, Digitas, yLabs, and Factory Phnom Penh among those in recent years.
He combines the practices he gained from his experience living in the world with the tenets of design thinking—bias towards action and iteration, paying attention to the contexts and user experience, and the spirit of exploration and experimentation with an open mind, will and heart—to help his client gain the broadest perspectives, deepest insights, and brightest ideas through simple practices.
He holds Master’s of Science in Parks, Recreation and Tourism from North Carolina State University, a school with one of the oldest agriculture, forestry, engineering and architecture programs in the US. He studied design, Latin American history and Spanish outside of his curriculum, and served as the chair and then the graduate advisor for the Student Union’s International Student Committee.
He currently serves as Community Design Director at School of Slow Media, a global, transformative leadership development initiative, and a co-founding consultant partner at ANAKOT Asia Academy.