Mariana Somma
Lecturer with Continuing Appointment, Innovation, Design, and Creativity, Haas School of Business
Senior Partner, Employera
Mariana Somma is designer, educator, and consultant in Design Thinking and Innovation, Creativity, and Human-Centered Design. She is a Senior Partner at Employera, a talent innovation firm focused on designing candidate and employee experiences, and employer branding. Somma has led human-centered design research internationally for organizations like PSI.org and IDEO.org.
Formerly a designer with architectural firm SOM, and a Nike Design Fellow, she holds an M.B.A. from the Claremont Graduate School of Business, an M.S. in Industrial Design, ArtCenter College of Design, and a B.A. in Architecture from UC Berkeley.