Speaking Engagements
Keynote | Strategy | Inspiration | Activation
Harvard GRID, October 2023
Sports equipment designed for women, by women.
Sara Falkson, MDE '25, leads panelists Jamie Mittleman, Lauren Scruggs and Christine Yu.” (Matt Goisman/SEAS)
Harvard Grid panel explores lack of female representation in athletic product design.
Hasbro, March 2024
DELIVER + DELIGHT
Give them what they want and what they didn’t know they could have.
Harvard GRID, September 2023
ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL
Medical Instrumentation and PPE
An event exploring the problems, implications and solutions highlighting the bias in product design in healthcare, how one size NEVER fits all and how we can begin to solve through awareness, innovation and implementation.
78th UN General Assembly, September 2023
EQUITY BY DESIGN: WHERE ARE THE GAPS?
A discussion led by Ms. Sheryl WuDunn, Co-founder, FullSky Partners, Pulitzer Prize winner, co-author of Half the Sky” and “Tightrope”, and Mr. Nicholas Kristof, Columnist, The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize winner, co-author of “Half the Sky”, with Ms. Yael Averbuch West, General Manager and Head of Soccer Oper ations, NY/NJ Gotham FC, and Ms. Karen Korellis Reuther, Former Creative Executive, NIKE and Reebok, Design Critic, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
PUMA, September 2023
DESIGNING DIFFERENCES
A Culture of Firsts. Past. Present. Future.
Aalto University, January 2023
Keynote: LIFESTYLE AND FASHION EXECUTIVE EDUCATION
Deliver & Delight. What does your brand stand for? What does your consumer care about?
Purdue Women's Conference, June 2023
Keynote: THE POWER OF A MOMENT
Wendy (Byrnes) Baker (T’95) and Karen Korellis Reuther (LA’79) believe the world is missing out on the true impact of women due to barriers that block them from initiating much-needed change.
Harvard Kennedy School Women in Power Conference, April 2023
DESIGNING DIFFERENCES
A spotlight on gender bias in our built world.
Harvard Grid Panel Discussion, March 2023
INCLUSION BY DESIGN
Gender Bias in Product Design.
An event exploring the problems, implications and solutions highlighting the bias in product design wiyth a special focus on automotve safety, how one size NEVER fits all and how we can begin to solve through awareness, innovation and implementation.
Purdue Women's Conference, June 2022
INCLUSION BY DESIGN
The Power and Wisdom of Female Leadership is needed to drive a more Equitable World for All.
BOSTON FASHION WEEK, September 2019
GLAM SLAM STORYTELLING
MIT Executive Education, September 2018 & 2019
Lecturer ELLE + MIT FASHION AND LUXURY MANAGEMENT
The Power of Color
Purdue University, October 2018
Guest Lecturer: Liberal Arts Influentials and School of Industrial Design
Design Museum Boston, November 2016
Guest Speaker: FASHION THINKING: LEVERAGING THE METABOLISM OF FASHION TO INNOVATE ACROSS INDUSTRIES
Aalto University Helsinki, April 2016
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: DESIGNING SOUL CONFERENCE
Deliver & Delight
TEDxBerkleeValencia, April 2015
LEAVING YOUR DREAM - Should one dream last us an entire lifetime or an entire career?
Creative Director and Brand Psychologist, Karen Korellis Reuther, says sometimes you have to love it and leave it.
Fire yourself.
Themed Changing Currents, TEDxBerkleeValencia welcomed leading international innovators, entrepreneurs, creative business people, and artists from diverse countries representing music, fashion and design, the environment, technology and religion. The second edition of TEDxBerkleeValencia, which took place at L’Oceanogràfic, the largest aquarium in Europe, addressed several notions of change - paradigm shifts; movement, both physical and societal; and new tendencies across multiple disciplines.
Massachusetts Conference for Women 2014
Breakout Session Speaker
Texas Conference for Women 2013
PANEL: Strategies to Build a Compelling Brand and Attract More Business