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Tieni Meninato

Co-founder, co-being design

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Tieni Meninato is a co-founder of co-being design, a studio that mentors teams, mostly in public health care, to run co-design and design research themselves. Meninato works across graphic design, service design and strategic foresight, and is Design Coordinator at the Pluriversal Futures Design Lab at Cornell University and an Innovation Fellow at Women's College Hospital.

Tieni hasn’t spoken on a TechTO, TechVancouver or TechWaterloo stage. This profile is here because Tieni co-founded co-being design.

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What does co-being design do?

The co-being design website, checked 2026-09-25, describes the studio as design mentors who help teams embed design approaches in their own work, with a focus on co-design and collaboration, so a client team completes a project and learns the methods along the way.

Who founded co-being design?

A Women's College Hospital academics project page, checked 2026-09-25, describes Tieni Meninato as co-founder at co-being design and Nadine Hare as its co-founder; the studio's own site lists the two of them.

What else does Meninato work on?

The co-being design website, checked 2026-09-25, says Meninato is an Innovation Fellow at Women's College Hospital Toronto and Design Coordinator at the Pluriversal Futures Design Lab at Cornell University.

What did Meninato do before co-being design?

The Women's College Hospital academics page, checked 2026-09-25, says Meninato was previously VP of Innovation and Foresight at FSI and a co-founder of Wake Insights Brazil.

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