Robert Kellas

Design Thinker, Facilitator, Human

Rob is a Programme Manager at the Hasso Plattner School of Design Thinking at the University of Cape Town and the Design Thinking Lead at Futureworld, an innovation consultancy in Johannesburg. He designs and leads workshops to help organisations accelerate strategic conversations to build alignment, shape choices, and make decisions.

As a facilitator he has lead Design Thinking programmes both in Germany and in South Africa, with a focus on helping individuals and teams use Human Centred Design to discover new solutions to wicked problems, to practice multidisciplinary collaboration, and to embody the mindsets and skills required to be better change agents in increasingly complex and ambiguous environments.

Rob holds an MA in English Literature from the University of the Witwatersrand and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town. Rob is an avid listener of podcasts, a wildlife photographer and runner.