Nathan Shedroff
Co-author of Blind Spot and Make It So; author of Design Is the Problem
Nathan Shedroff is the executive director of Seed Vault Ltd, a Singapore-based platform building an independent, trusted bot economy on the blockchain. He manages a cadre of experienced bot enthusiasts and technologists developing new ways to ensure user privacy, shepherd the shift to this new paradigm, create ways for people to profit from their creative work, and save the business sector from its most critical threat ever. He is a design pioneer turned entrepreneur and an international educator, speaker, and consultant.
Nathan was the founder and chair of the ground-breaking Design MBA programs at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco, CA. These programs prepared the next-generation of innovation leaders for a world that is profitable, sustainable, ethical, and truly meaningful by uniting the perspectives of systems thinking, design thinking, sustainability, and generative leadership with strategic tools that lead people through ambiguity.
Rosenverse talks by Nathan:
" Design schools are often governed by non-designers and are surprisingly conservative, slow to change, and sometimes exploit precarious gig workers. "
How Will Design be Taught When the Schools Shut Down?
May 8, 2026
" The culture of business education has taught MBAs to be confident about many things that are simply not true. "
Double Your Mileage: Use Your Research Strategically
March 31, 2020
" Value gets exchanged only in the context of a relationship. Without a relationship, value isn’t exchanged. "
Redefining Value: Bridging the Innovation Culture Divide
May 14, 2015
" Most people don’t come to work to make their own life harder or work on a bad product. "
Discussion
May 14, 2015
