Anastasia Hanan
System Designer, PM, Researcher, and Strategist with over 10 years of research, facilitation, implementation, design, and consulting expertise. Leading teams towards valuable collaboration, insight, inclusion, and evidenced based design.

About

With over a decade of leadership experience, Anastasia transforms ambiguous challenges into customer-driven experiences that deliver results. Known for her exceptional ability to navigate complex and novel problem spaces, she brings clarity and direction where others see only uncertainty. Her mixed-methods approach combines analytical rigor with creative problem-solving, while her collaborative leadership style ensures team members' contributions are recognized and celebrated. Anastasia builds both innovative solutions and the high-performing teams behind them

 
 

Creative + Analytical

 
 
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MS in Industrial Design; Art Center College of Design

MBA in Innovation Systems Design; Peter Drucker school of Management

BFA in Theater; New York University

 

 
 
 

Professional Work

 
 
 
 
 

Interests

Cooking for people restrictive diets (I eat everything and love cooking - but it means so much to this group.)

Design for pre-attentive processing (Do we actually like consciously interacting with screens? ...what if our attention could be elsewhere?)

Brand definition (My style is very adaptive and individualizing design to each client is one of my superpowers - be it for Sanrio or Caltech.)

Collaborative desert art (I help build giant musical tesla coils, mesh one-sies for mad-scientists, light splitting rainbow robots, and large brain art cars that light up based on EEG signals.)