Designing equitable workplace culture starts with rethinking how power, rewards, and mindsets shape human systems. Shree Lakshmi, a researcher, strategist, and designer at Optimistic Design, shares how organizations can transform internal processes by co-creating solutions with the very people impacted by them. With a background spanning global health, education, and government innovation, she reveals how inclusive design and systems thinking uncover the root causes of disengagement and empower leaders to create cultures of true belonging, alignment, and impact.