Lori Desautels

Lori Desautels, Ph.D., is a university supervisor for the Indianapolis Teaching Fellows and Teach for America programs at Marian University. She is an instructor at both the undergraduate and graduate levels at Marian University in Indianapolis. Before coming to Marian University she taught emotionally disabled students in the upper elementary grades and worked as a school counselor in Wayne Township, a private practitioner in and co-owned of the Indianapolis Counseling Center, and a behavioral consultant for Methodist Hospital on the adolescent psychiatric unit.

Desautels’ passion is engaging her students through neuroscience in education, integrating Mind Brain Teaching and Learning Strategies into her courses at Marian. She has conducted workshops throughout the Midwest on Mind Brain Teaching and Learning creating two webinars and a series of articles for the online publication Inside The School.

Desautels graduated from Butler University with a BS in Special Education, and Indiana University with an MS in counseling. She earned her Ph.D. from The American Institute of Holistic Theology with an emphasis in early adolescence/ thought formation. Her website is Revelations in Education. She is the author of How May I Serve You? Revelations in Education.

She is the proud mother of three wonderful adolescents, Andrew, Sarah and Regan who are her greatest teachers and wife to Michael Desautels, whom she says, supports and affirms her work every day!

Introducing the Thought Leaders

Introducing the Thought Leaders

As many as 500 of Indianapolis’ most impassioned TEDx fans interested and active in education, arts, culture, and technology will come together Friday, October 26 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art for a day of dialogue and networking surrounding the new emphasis on design thinking in Indianapolis.

Join the TEDx community when it converges in Indy to listen to thought leaders as they share ideas worth spreading related to the theme DESIGN LEARNING. The eighteen national and local TEDxIndianapolis speakers are:

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