Sasin Next Gen Bootcamp — Friday, June 5, 2026
Sasin Hall, 9th Floor | Dinner 5:00 PM | Session 6:00–9:30 PM
| Session | Designing Your SASIN Life |
| Date | Friday, June 5, 2026 |
| Venue | Sasin Hall, 9th Floor |
| Instructor | Permsit Lamprasitipon, Ph.D. (SASIN MBA 2008) |
| Approach | Stanford's Designing Your Life (Bill Burnett & Dave Evans) |
| Type | Hands-on Workshop |
SASIN MBA 2008 (with distinction) | Ph.D. Counseling Psychology (Assumption University, Distinguished Alumni) | B.A. Psychology (UCLA)
Dr. Permsit is Thailand's only Certified Designing Your Life Coach, trained personally by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans at Stanford. He is the founder of Modular Consulting (est. 2019), the official licensed DYL provider in Thailand.
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Track Record: 50+ organizations, 3,000+ participants across private and government sectors. Conducts Design Thinking and Designing Your Life workshops in both English and Thai.
"Designers don't think their way forward — they build their way forward."
Designing Your Life (DYL) is a #1 New York Times bestseller based on the most popular course in Stanford's history. Originally taught as ENGR104B at the Stanford d.school, it applies Design Thinking methodology to the challenge of designing a meaningful, fulfilling life and career.
Bill Burnett (Executive Director, Stanford Design Program; 7 years at Apple designing PowerBooks) and Dave Evans (co-founder of Electronic Arts; led Apple's first mouse and laser printing) spent decades counseling Stanford students who were brilliant but stuck. They realized: passion is the RESULT of good life design, not the prerequisite.
Curiosity makes everything an invitation. Instead of "I need to know the right answer first," ask "What's interesting here?" Invite conversations. Explore possibilities.
Stop planning and start doing. Designers prototype — they don't endlessly analyze. Try small experiments. Low-risk, high-learning probes beat perfect plans.
Most people are stuck in gravity problems (unchangeable circumstances) or anchor problems (stuck on one fixed solution). Reframing opens new possibilities. "I can't" becomes "How might I?"
Life design is not a one-time decision. It's a continuous practice. Let go of the idea of finding the "one right answer" and embrace iterative discovery.
You don't have to design alone. Share your odyssey plans. Ask for help. Invite feedback. The best designs emerge from many perspectives — including your cohort.
Articulate your philosophy of work (why you work, what work means) and your philosophy of life (what gives life meaning). When these align, you have a coherent compass. When they don't, you know where to focus.
Track your daily activities and rate them by Engagement and Energy. Use the AEIOU framework: Activities, Environments, Interactions, Objects, Users. Discover what truly energizes you — not what you think should.
Design three different 5-year plans: (1) Your current path, (2) What you'd do if Plan 1 disappeared, (3) Your wildest dream if money and image didn't matter. Rate each on resources, confidence, coherence, and likeability.
Instead of "What should I do with my life?", have conversations with people already living versions of your odyssey plans. Prototype your future through lived experience — not hypothetical analysis.
Rate your satisfaction across four life dimensions. Identify imbalances. Design small experiments to rebalance. A well-designed life has all four gauges in the green zone.
The DYL approach maps directly to the five phases of Design Thinking:
| Design Thinking | → Designing Your Life |
| Empathize | → Self-awareness (Good Time Journal, Workview/Lifeview) |
| Define | → Reframe problems (identify gravity vs. anchor problems) |
| Ideate | → Odyssey Plans (3 divergent futures, no filtering) |
| Prototype | → Prototype conversations, small experiments |
| Test | → Iterate based on what you learn; choose, let go, move forward |
This is Human-Centered Design applied to the self — and it's the foundation of Dr. Permsit's coaching practice and this workshop.
The MBA/EMBA is an inflection point — a natural moment to redesign your career and life trajectory. This workshop helps you:
"You can't know where you're going until you know where you are. The MBA/EMBA gives you the space to figure both out — but only if you're intentional about it."
No advance preparation required. This is a hands-on workshop. Come with:
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