Keith Yamashita is an artistic director and designer and is one of the founders of SYPartners, a design, communications and consulting firm. He is also the founder of the Kyu collective, a group of companies dedicated to using creativity to solve the world’s challenges. He has worked with Oprah Winfrey to launch The Life You Want tour—an eight-city stadium tour to help her followers build better lives.
Yamashita collaborated with Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw to launch their philanthropic foundation—the Hearthland Foundation. He has worked with Laurene Powell Jobs on reimagining public education in America and has hosted gatherings to bring mindfulness to the realm of business with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He is a frequent writer, commentator, and is the creator and host of This Human Moment, a series focused on art and renewal. Yamashita holds a Master’s degree in Organisational Behaviour and a Bachelor's degree in Quantitative Economics from Stanford University.