Ellen McGirt is Editor-in-Chief of Design Observer and an influential voice covering the intersection of business, design, innovation, and leadership. Over nearly a decade at Fortune, she created the award-winning raceAhead newsletter and co-chaired Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Conference; her Fast Company cover stories helped define a generation of design and technology journalism.
She is a veteran keynote speaker and on-stage interviewer and has published more than 300 interviews with C-Suite leaders and other luminaries. A native New Yorker, she lives most of the year in rural Wisconsin with her husband, where she writes, fly fishes, tends the garden, and fusses over their cat Fred, who is a faithful observer of the birds in the yard.
