Design Your Next is a transformative program helping ambitious women reclaim their purpose and design success on their own terms.

Carrying on with the status quo can be draining.
Success only feels sustainable when it is aligned with what’s meaningful and therefore, naturally motivating to you. It can take years to figure this out on your own, if you go it alone.

Ready to choose yourself?
Willing to align intellect with intuition?
At a career crossroads?
Wondering how to go from inspiration to activation?
Ready to design what's next?

✦ Applied, co-creative approaches: From design thinking and method acting to brand storytelling and structured action planning, we’ll use techniques that produce real-world results, not theory.

✦ Your original self comes first: We start with your inherent purpose, then build your voice, presence, possibilities, and a structured action plan.

✦ Community and guidance: Grow alongside a supportive cohort, guided by leaders who have successfully navigated change and are invested in helping you thrive. We are all Nextmakers!

✦ A complete, engaging experience: In just 8 weeks, with 3-5 hours per week, you’ll move from mindset to action while gaining tools that sustain curiosity, momentum, and confidence.

✦ Focused on creative confidence: The often-overlooked key to believing in yourself, embracing the unknown, trusting the process, and stepping fully into your own path. Creative confidence brings you mental clarity, flow, and problem-solving power.

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Sunaina Mehta: Choose yourself. The path will follow.
Sunaina is a global brand marketer, design strategist, saké sommelier, erstwhile architect, and founder of Design Your Next. Design Your Next was born from a lifetime of bold reinvention and most recently, from her flipping the script yet again while completing her master's in Strategic Design for Global Leadership at Parsons School of Design.

A strategic small-group program where ambitious women at a crossroads discover their purpose and design what’s next on their own terms.

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Brenda James: Bring your artistic voice to life by being honest with yourself.
Brenda is CEO of K-Tek—the industry leader in professional boom poles and sound accessories. She is also an accomplished Hollywood actor best known for James Gunn's cult classic Slither, a lifetime member of The Actor's Studio, and an Adjunct Faculty method acting teacher at the Lee Strasberg Theater & Film Institute.

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Latha Rao: Turning your bold vision into a clear and sustainable action plan.
Latha is the Founder of Clear to Scale Advising where she puts systems in place for women entrepreneurs and health practices to scale smart. She is also a COO who has scaled social ventures and a multi-million dollar physical therapy clinic, an angel investor, and a volunteer supporting women's health, innovation, and financial independence.

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Rochelle Webb: Helping you find your authenticity in how you show up in the room, inside and out.
Rochelle is a visionary marketing executive, educator, and entrepreneur. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Marketing at Loyola Marymount University, CEO of Optimist Made, Chief Strategy Officer of The Dialectic Compound, and board member for 1% for the Planet, Movember, and Make-A-Wish.

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Raj Bhargava: Empowering you to be your best.
Raj is CEO of Your Next Work Chapter, funded by the National Science Foundation. He also teaches 'Your Next Life Chapter based on behavioral science and design thinking' at Stanford Continuing Studies, is a high-tech entrepreneur and executive in Silicon Valley, and a mentor to social ventures.