Ren Chang leads the risk innovation lab at a regional financial services organisation, where he experiments with risk-based machine learning models/ Gen AI. In addition, he designs conditions to cultivate risk culture across Southeast Asia.

Ren Chang helps professionals & business leaders get better at design thinking in real world projects, as a teaching lead at IDEO U. He was a design thinking coach with HPI D-School in Germany, and co-delivered design thinking bootcamps alongside the Stanford d.school professors. In addition, he is a contributor to This is Service Design Doing; a service design practitioner's handbook.

Ren Chang's past experience includes talent management, leadership development & gamification. Additionally, he was a management consultant with Deloitte and PwC.

His vacation days are spent finding peace under the sea.