Elena de Kan

As Director for Design Consulting and Applications, Elena de Kan is currently leading Steelcase’s EMEA workplace design and consulting teams distributed in Munich, London and Cluj as they create impactful workplace strategies and design concepts for global organizations.

Educated both as industrial designer and design theorist, Elena de Kan holds Degrees from the University of Applied Sciences Schwäbisch Gmünd and the VU University Amsterdam and is specialized in Design Thinking. Throughout her career, she has worked in various positions in design and consulting at IDEO, Atelier 522, KMS and Blackspace before joining Steelcase in 2019.