An award-winning author, international lecturer, and designer with more than 30 years of experience, Cynthia Leibrock's mission is to improve the lives of older and disabled people through design.
Ms. Leibrock is the principal/founder of EASY ACCESS TO HEALTH in Ft. Collins, Colorado, a firm that offers consulting services in patient centered design, planning for independent living, product analysis, and judiciary witness services.
Prominent projects include The Betty Ford Center, the UCLA Medical Center, automotive interior design for Toyota, and a universal design exhibit for the Smithsonian. She has completed a universal design showroom for The Kohler Company (training over 150,000 consumers a year) and a "living laboratory" in Fort Collins researching the environmental needs of older people.
A sought-after speaker, Ms. Leibrock does keynote presentations and workshops internationally, including multiple lectures for many of the Fortune 500 companies. She has served as a lobbyist for people with mental disabilities, a judiciary witness in code compliance and accessibility cost estimation, and as a research associate on the dean's staff at Colorado State University. For the past 10 years, she has taught courses in the architecture department at The Harvard University Graduate School of Design and has conducted healthcare design research in Scandinavia, Northern Europe, and Japan.
Numerous publications have resulted from Ms. Leibrock's sponsored research, including the books Design Details for Health, Beautiful Barrier Free: A Visual Guide to Accessibility, and Beautiful Universal Design, co-authored with James Evan Terry. Because of this work, she has twice been awarded the ASID Education Foundation/Joel Polsky Prize for literature. She is also the recipient of the 2002 ASID Design for Humanity Award.