Aithan Shapira is an internationally acclaimed Senior Lecturer in Work and Organization Studies at MIT Sloan, an established artist, and founder of TILT, a firm focused on the artful evolution of leaders and cultures as they move critical initiatives forward in ever-changing contexts. As facilitator, coach, and designer of developmental programming, Aithan is applying his progressive ways for training leaders with global entities committed to forming communities of practice with senior leaders that impact billions worldwide at the speed of change.

Aithan has applied his progressive methodology with a range of high-impact organizations in tech, health, finance, and green-energy including NASA, the UN, Greenpeace, Google, MGB, and Ocean Plastics Leadership Network. He also serves on McKinsey's think tank for Learning Innovation and is ongoingly developing new curricular approaches for training leadership at MIT Sloan, Harvard ilab, Stanford d.school, and the Berklee Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship. Over the past decade, Aithan has trained more than 12,000 leaders, 200 facilitators, given over 100 keynotes, and customized and delivered leadership curricula for more than 30 Fortune 500 organizations, including 3 years innovating and advancing GE’s corporate leadership school in Crotonville, NY.

Aithan developed his research on development and the creative process at the Royal College of Art & Design, lived in an Australian Aboriginal community for three years to study creativity in cultures of survival, and continues to be a visiting critic at arts institutions internationally. He exhibits his art in museums and galleries in New York, London, and Miami.

Aithan is the father of two small daughters, and is often found playing with them underneath the piano, or adding more fairytale characters to the life-sized mural on their bedroom wall. He is at his happiest cooking a feast of flavorful dishes for friends and family, studying painting and music, or on a plane heading…anywhere. He makes a home with his wife in Boston, and is usually in over his head (and full of splinters) from some latest DIY construction.