RECLAIMING VALUE:
SACRED VALLEY DESIGN IMMERSION
Sponsorship opportunities | June 23-27, 2025
Extend the impact of our immersion to your whole team.
In partnership with the Institute of Design and Empathy, Murmur Ring has curated a four-day immersion in Peru’s Sacred Valley .
Sponsors will access customized immersion experiences that will allow your team to turn your abstract ideas into tangible solutions.
What your team will gain
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Co-facilitated workshops will nurture your team’s strategic leadership development and one-of-a-kind experiences will foster connection across teams separated by hierarchy and remote work.
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Select sponsors will access private workshops designed to address your team's most pressing challenges, resulting in frameworks to effectively collaborate and scale goals upon return to the office.
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Engage and extend your audience via prominent features of your brand across immersion promotional materials, media coverage, and our site partner network.
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Receive still and moving imagery of your team activated and in-the-field. Select sponsors will also receive fully realized short films ready to deploy across your digital communications platforms.
This immersion offers global design leaders a meaningful opportunity to deepen their network.
An alternative to standard conferences and retreats, Peru’s Sacred Valley will serve as a living research site where participants will find inspiration at the confluence of traditional and contemporary practices while collectively considering pathways to sustained growth that benefit the region and preserve its resources.
With its agricultural fertility, astronomical alignment, and archeological sites, the region has long been a spiritual destination. In recent years innovations in gastronomy pioneered in The Sacred Valley have garnered global recognition resulting in an influx of new development, technology, and tourism.
Now is a critical moment to consider design’s role as a medium to harness opportunities and mitigate risks to environment and culture associated with accelerated popularity of a place as a tourist destination.
Contact us for sponsorship details
“The immersion was a critical opportunity for our team to think deeply about what we do and to press our strategy and purpose further.”
Interested in joining us on your own?
Join us as an individual in lieu of attending a traditional conference or retreat.
“The immersion dealt with issues in our industry that we would never get to while sitting behind a desk. It brought soul to the work. It brought meaning.”
Our Team
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ASHLEY LUKASIK
Murmur Ring CEO, Co-Host
Ashley’s passion is creating the conditions for collective creativity. She founded Murmur Ring to curate powerful experiences to help organizations accomplish their strategic aims. Having built her career exposing organizations to human-centered design as a means to respond to complex challenges for which they do not have a preexisting roadmap, she is the co-producer of the acclaimed feature documentary The New Bauhaus.
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RODRIGO ISASI
Empathy Managing Partner, Co-Host
Rodrigo builds sustainable businesses through people-driven culture and innovation. He believes that leadership is the central catalyst for corporate transformation. This belief led him to Delosi, largest restaurant company in the country, where he served as the CEO leading a transformational recovery post-Covid. A graduate of the Institute of Design (MDM ‘13), Rodrigo is committed to catalyzing the impact of good businesses in society, through Empathy an impact-driven international design firm.
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ANIJO MATHEW
Dean and a Professor at the Institute of Design
In his role at ID, Anijo is focused on entrepreneurship and urban technology. His research evaluates new models of innovation enabled by technology and media convergence through the lenses of design fiction, design-led innovation, and entrepreneurship. He works with global organizations to adapt and change strategic responses to transforming technologies.
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MARTÍN ZABALETA
Empathy Managing
Martín is a leader specializing in design, innovation, and strategy with more than 20 years of experience supporting global brands, startups, and the public sector in strategic innovation projects using people-centered design methodologies. He has held leadership positions at IDEO, Fjord, and INSITUM, and he is currently the Managing and Partner Director at Empathy La. Martín holds a Master of Design (MDes) degree from the Institute of Design (IIT) in Chicago.
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MARIELA SOTOMAYOR
Social Impact Designer
Mariela currently serves as the Senior Director of Design at Loadsmart, a startup revolutionizing the logistics industry. A current Institute of Design PhD student, Mariela’s approach to design as a dynamic capability highlights the potential for organizations to navigate economic complexity and drive business innovation through a modern organizational model that recognizes the importance of design in bridging the gap between economic and social dimensions.
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MILOVAN RADOVIC
Narrative Designer
As an Advertising Director, Milo seeks to design stories that excite the human condition and generate pieces that people want to share. Currently a traveling member of John Doe Global; partner of Lucha Start Up Studio; Narrative Designer at The Kubricks; founding partner of La Peruvian Film Machin (Madrid); and an MIT student; Milo is launching IMAGINE - a platform that uses marketing and advertising tools for the service of sustainable transformation and social impact.
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DYLAN CHANDLER
Photographer
Dylan Chandler is an architectural photographer, specializing in interiors and in situ documentary. His book Bricks and Brownstone (Rizzoli, 2019) is lauded by photographers and architects worldwide. His clients include West Elm, Crosby Studios, Aimée Wilder, Pottery Barn and West Chin Architects. His work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, and Better Homes and Gardens.