Mathew Chow is a Design Lead at IDEO San Francisco. Throughout his career, he has designed the conditions to provoke positive, large-scale change in complex human networks.

He currently focuses on seeing organizations through a human-centered lens to help them build the capabilities required to foster creativity and innovation.

But Mathew’s life and career are perhaps best summarized in an email that his dad wrote after his MBA graduation. It was the day before his first day at IDEO.