John B. Nash is an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of Kentucky, where he specializes in the design and prototyping of innovations in education and teaches a range of courses on design thinking, school technology leadership, and school reform. He is also the founding director of the Laboratory on Design Thinking in Education (dLab), an initiative within the University of Kentucky's College of Education. Nash is a former associate director for evaluation at the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning and former associate director of assessment and research at the Stanford Learning Laboratory.