Tessa Forshaw, PhD, is the Faculty Chair of the Workplace and Workforce Learning and Faculty Director of the Workforce Learning and Artificial Intelligence Initiative at The Harvard Graduate School of Education. She studies the cognitive and creative skills humans need to learn, work, and create alongside AI.
Before joining HGSE, Tessa was a Lecturer at Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the d.school) and spent more than a decade working across Accenture, the IDEO CoLab, and People Rocket, driving innovation and future thinking in organisational learning and future workforce design.
She is the author of Innovation-ish (Wiley, 2025) and a recipient of a Fast Company Design Award, and two Core77 Design Awards. She holds an M.A. from Stanford University, a B.A. (Honours) from the Australian National University, and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.
