Jennifer Hartt founded Hartt Studio LLC as both a practice and a provocation, a place where design thinking, art, and business could stop pretending they do not need each other. Her work moves fluidly between boardrooms and studios, treating creativity as something measurable, material, and worth defending. She builds frameworks for innovation while maintaining a studio practice, teaching, and asking why systems (be they biological, financial, or social) behave the way they do.

Across two decades working to foster and fund ventures, Hartt has helped shape startup ecosystems, public–private funds, and health-tech start-up teams while sustaining a parallel life in visual expression. That duality informs Hartt Venture Design, her consulting arm for creative problem-solving and innovation strategy, and Jenny Hartt, her art and exhibition platform that examines perception, technology, and human endurance. Both strands orbit the same question: how to make thinking visible and empathy actionable. Importantly, she cares about the role of technology in enabling or thwarting human thriving. Her interdisciplinary work has this care at its center.

She works from a belief that good ideas are not fragile. They can withstand interrogation, humor, and the mess of iteration. The studio, the classroom, and the lab are all variations of the same space: somewhere between optimism and discontent, where invention and art still share a table and methodology can be a means instead of an end.