Lisa started her career in large-scale commercial print in Dallas then moved on to investment banking in New York before eventually moving into strategic finance and corporate strategy for public universities in Texas and California. After a stint as a grant-maker at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, she returned to the San Francisco Bay Area as a principal designer for the design and innovation consultancy IDEO where she specialized in systems design and interactive data visualization, primarily in the education and media-technology studios. Between 2015 and 2022, she built a healthy design + strategy consulting practice with clients like IDEO, frog, COLLINS, and others. In 2022, she moved her business from California to France to launch Fraîche Design Thinking, where she serves as president and creative director.

During undergraduate studies, Lisa earned a bachelor’s degree in finance and a bachelor’s degree in print journalism, both from the University of Texas at Austin. Ten years later, she earned a master of business administration from the University of California–Berkeley, which included a semester in luxury brand management at ESSEC Business School outside Paris. Five years later, she earned a master of design from California College of the Arts in San Francisco where she focused on design research, UX, and interaction design. She lives outside Paris with her husband and two children.

Alexia started her career in audit in one of the Big Five accounting firms in Paris, then relocated to New York where she served as accounting manager of a French enterprise specializing in high-end luxury haircare. She then moved into investment banking, initially as a management controller, then as an information-technology project manager. After four years in New York, she took a professional pause to travel the world for one year, from South and Central America, to Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. In 2004, she returned to Paris to rejoin the investment banking industry, serving in a wide array of capacities, from international IT project manager, to relationship manager within the telecom sector, and finally to business manager in the commodities sector. Ultimately, she left financial services in search of better personal and professional values alignment, which she found at Fraîche Design Thinking where she serves as the main administrative and financial officer.

Alexia earned a master’s degree from ESSEC Business School outside Paris with a major in accounting and management control. She speaks four languages—French, English, Greek, and Spanish—and has been a devoted ashtanga yoga practitioner for approximately 20 years. She lives outside Paris with her husband and daughter.

Jeremy started his career in hospitality design in New York City, before moving to Austin, Texas, where he practiced healthcare design and architecture for four years. In 2010, Jeremy moved to California and joined Gensler San Francisco's workplace studio. Over the course of 11 years as project architect, Jeremy led large-scale projects for clients including Apple, E&J Gallo, Workday, DoorDash, and Asana. In addition to his project work, Jeremy was a technical leader within Gensler's workplace practice, concentrating on knowledge sharing and staff development. In 2022, Jeremy relocated to France and joined Gensler Paris as technical director, focusing on the financial services practice area and developing QA/QC processes for the growing office. Since 2024, he has been developing Fraîche's architectural practice as general manager, which includes retail design projects across the U.S. and design management consulting for workplace projects in Paris.

Jeremy holds a bachelor of architecture from the University of Oregon School of Design. He is a licensed architect in both California and Texas, and he is certified as a LEED Green Associate.

Diana started her career in Dallas, Texas as a marketer for Deloitte's Technology, Media & Telecom practice before moving consulting-side with Hitachi Consulting, specializing in large-scale, technology-driven change management. She moved to London and continued delivering technology-driven change management projects, eventually returning to Deloitte and expanding her change expertise to end-to-end transformations, bringing in organizational design, process re-engingeering, and behavior change methods. After ten years in a client-facing role, Diana moved to BCG in 2018 as an internal change-management leader, delivering BCG's corporate, cross-functional, digital, and transformation agenda. Diana serves in a senior advisory capacity to Fraîche Design Thinking.

Diana holds a bachelor degree in economics and government from the University of Texas at Austin and a master in public administration from the University of Texas at Dallas. In 2022, she earned her Prosci change management certification.

Thanks to CY school of design’s methods and values, Anaïs was able to participate and make a difference through countless professional projects in partnership with city councils, businesses, and associations, as well as the writing of her own scientific article about clay as a means of housing construction in an environmental and socio-economic context. Her ambition created opportunities such as the event “il était une fois Chanel & vous”, the youth innovation competition “L'Oréal Brandstorm”, multiple internships and work opportunities at Dorise Joaillier, Micro-Folie Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Vivienne Westwood, and Ocdata.

Anaïs graduated high school with an English and Art major in Villefranche-de-Lauragais before moving to Saint-Germain-en-Laye to follow her newfound passion : global design. As for her extra-curricular activities, Anaïs obtained her blue belt in Taekwondo, took art classes throughout her childhood in Lauragais, as well as Japanese language learning classes.