Ivy Ross is currently the Chief Design Officer for Consumer Devices at Google. Since 02017, she and her team have launched a family of consumer hardware products ranging from smartphones to smart speakers, earning over 240 global design awards, including Fast Company’s declaring Google the most important design company in 02018. This product portfolio established a design aesthetic for technology products that is tactile, bold, emotional, and undeniably Google. Previously, Ivy has held executive positions spanning from head of head of product design and development to CMO and presidencies with several companies, including Calvin Klein, Swatch, Coach, Mattel, Art.com, Bausch & Lomb and Gap.

In 02023, Ivy co-authored the book,Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us, which became a New York Times bestseller. She has been a contributing author to numerous books, including The Change Champion’s Field Guide and Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organizational Change. She has also been referenced in Ten Faces of Innovation, Rules of Thumb, and Unstuck, among other books. This includes being featured in 200 Women: Who Will Change The Way You See The World. Ivy was a speaker at Fortune Magazine’s Most Powerful Women Summit and has been cited by Businessweek as “one of the new faces of leadership.” In 2019, she was ranked ninth on Fast Company’s list of the 100 Most Creative People in Business.

A renowned artist, Ivy’s innovative metal work in jewelry is in the permanent collections of 12 international museums. A winner of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, Ivy has also received the Women in Design Award and Diamond International Award for her creative designs. Ivy’s passion is human potential and relationships. Ivy believes in the combination of art and science to make magic happen and bring great ideas and brands to life.