065 Safir Bellali: How to Accelerate Innovation In a Post COVID World?

Innovation is connecting disparate ideas and creating a new bridge.

In the post COVID world, we are effectively in the 'in-between spaces' where new paradigms are being created at this moment.

My guest, Safir Bellali, is the head of Advance Digital Creation for VFC, the parent company of Northface, Timberland, Vans, Dickies, etc.

TOPICS WE TALKED ABOUT

• How Capoeira fosters creative conversations
• The relationship between flow and play
• Connecting a tribe together based on hobbies, values, interests, professions
• The importance of sharing your voice
• The origin story of his brother visiting Haiti
• 6D of exponential transformation (based on Peter Diamandis)
• Teaching ‘disruptor thinking’ to the next generation of product designers

LINKS

• https://www.vfc.com
• @safirbellali
• See the full blog here --> https://www.noblewarrior.com/episode/065-how-to-accelerate-innovation-in-a-post-covid-world-safir-bellali/