Ilana Ben-Ari
Toy Designer • Social Entrepreneur • sheEO
Ilana Ben-Ari
is a toy designer turned social entrepreneur. She is the inventor of the Empathy Toy and founder of Twenty One Toys, the passion project that took flight after a school board found her TEDx talk on Twitter and put in their first toy order. She can currently be found at the Centre for Social Innovation in Toronto working on the upcoming Failure Toy, or running around the world teaching schools and offices how to teach empathy with toys.
Inventor of:
- The Empathy Toy
- The Failure Toy
Media Coverage:
- CBC Our Toronto
- Time Magazine
- Forbes
- The Guardian
- The Independent
- Financial Post
Videos:
- TEDx Talk
- Growth Mindset
- CreativeMornings
Awards & Recognitions:
- Archangel Summit's Moonshot Pitch Competition winner
- winner of SheEO Radical Generosity award
- Ariane de Rothschild Fellow
- Spin Master Innovation Fund winner