Jyoti Patel, is Principal and Owner of Spille LLC, an organization design firm that offers playful workshops in culture and strategy. She helps leaders and teams cultivate the courage to have conversations that matter. Her workshops explore how culture, mindsets and biases impact the development of technologies and enable leaders and teams to align to perform more effectively and creatively.

Jyoti spent over a decade testing airplanes with Boeing as a flight test engineer and manager. After getting her Master’s in Organizational Design from Seattle University she became an empowered and vocal leader of change, designing and implementing employee development programs and promoting intrapreneurship. She is passionate about social and gender equity in the technology space and infusing playfulness, candor and creativity into team culture using design thinking and systems thinking principles, oh, and um Legos!

In her free time you can catch her behind a set of turntables, cooking world cuisines or roaming around Seattle with her daughters and husband. Find her on Twitter and LinkedIn @jyotibfly