Ayla Newhouse

Ayla Newhouse is a designer, leader, and facilitator with a passion for helping people understand the complexities of being human. She uses metaphor, design, storytelling and conversation to help individuals and organizations get unstuck.

Ayla is the co-founder of 1THINGapp (www.1thingapp.com), a social gratitude journal, and the author of the ABC's of Dating by Design (www.datingbydesign.ca). Her PechaKucha talk on the subject was named one of the top 20 talks of 2013, and her work has been published in GOOD Magazine, Applied Arts, The Bold Italic and more. She was featured on the Women And Tech blog and named one of the Rising Stars of Toronto’s Young Entrepreneurs Scene in The Globe and Mail (Canada). Ayla currently works with Capital One in Virginia, helping people improve their relationship to money.