Creative Confidence Podcast
IDEO U
IDEO’s Creative Confidence Podcast shares candid conversations with creative leaders, changemakers, and innovators navigating today’s most pressing challenges. Through real-world stories and insights, we explore how to lead with creativity, build resilient teams, and drive innovation. Grounded in IDEO’s 40 years of expertise in design thinking and innovation, each episode offers inspiration and practical tools for audacious leaders at every stage of their careers. Hosted by Mina Seetharaman, Head of New Ventures at IDEO, the podcast brings a human-centered lens to the complexities of making more courageous futures.
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Aug 28, 2020 • 46min
Empowering Employees Through Empathetic Leadership: Jim Keane
Jim Keane, President and CEO of Steelcase, shares techniques for empowering your employees to make decisions through humble and empathic leadership. View the full recap at ideou.com/blog.
Aug 22, 2020 • 40min
Expand Your Culture Through Conversation: Lauren Collins
Learn how to set the groundwork for honest community conversations on diversity at work from Lauren Collins, Chief of Staff, Office of the CEO at IDEO. View the full recap at ideou.com/blog.
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Aug 12, 2020 • 45min
Learning to Embrace Tensions: Heather Currier Hunt
Heather Currier Hunt, Senior Director of Global Learning and Development at IDEO, dives into the concept of tension as a catalyst for learning and innovation. She emphasizes that embracing tension can lead to improved ideas and teamwork. Heather discusses the importance of brave spaces for psychological safety, effective feedback using the COINS framework, and navigating team dynamics. By reframing challenges and fostering diverse perspectives, she believes organizations can significantly enhance collaboration and creativity.
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Jul 23, 2020 • 49min
Steps for Moving Ideas Forward: Karen Holst
Karen Holst, co-author of Start Within, shares practical techniques to help you move from idea to action. View the full recap on the IDEO U blog: https://bit.ly/2ZS0gr8
Jul 8, 2020 • 13min
Office Hours: Women in Design with Robin and Suzanne
In a candid webinar hosted by the Design & Innovation Group, our own IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard spoke with her friend Robin Beers, Head of Customer Research and Experience Design at Wells Fargo, about the importance of representation of women in the design industry. They share insights and tips for how women can support each other and navigate challenges in the workplace. View the full recap at ideou.com/blog.
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Jun 26, 2020 • 47min
Organizational Change Moves Fast and Slow: Bob Sutton
Successful change efforts don’t happen at one speed. Change requires momentum and moderation at different points in the journey. In this episode of the Creative Confidence Podcast, Bob joins us to offer insights from his book Scaling Up Excellence: Getting More Without Settling for Less about how leaders can successfully drive organizational change by knowing when and how to pump the brakes and when to put the pedal to the metal. View the full recap at ideou.com/blog.
Jun 5, 2020 • 43min
Nudge Towards Better Behaviors: Laszlo Bock
Regardless of role, work can suck sometimes. Laszlo Bock, CEO and Co-Founder of Humu, a company that aims to make work better by encouraging people towards better habits and unlocking their potential, is focused on changing that. He’s dedicated the last decade of his career to bridging the gap between what we wish work was and what it actually is. In this episode of the Creative Confidence Podcast, he shares insights and tips on how we can make work better by sending small behavioral nudges to cultivate more empathy, equity, and resilience in the office. View the full recap at ideou.com/blog.
May 8, 2020 • 37min
Mom-Led Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Kate Torgersen
Starting a business from scratch is already an admirable undertaking. Now, try starting a business while breastfeeding 7-month-old twins, raising a toddler, and traveling for a full-time job. That’s exactly what Kate Torgersen did when she founded Milk Stork, the first breast milk travel solution for working moms. Now six years old, Milk Stork has helped thousands of working moms get their "liquid gold" home safely from business trips and is offered as an employee benefit by many large companies.
Coe sat down with Kate for a candid conversation to celebrate Mother’s Day and honor working moms. View the full recap at ideou.com/blog.
May 5, 2020 • 42min
Mindsets of Resilient Entrepreneurs: Alexandre Lazarow
What can we learn in this moment from global entrepreneurs who are embracing constraints to build resilient, impactful businesses? Alexandre Lazarow, author of the new book Out-Innovate: How Global Entrepreneurs—from Delhi to Detroit—Are Rewriting the Rules of Silicon Valley, joined us to discuss the ways entrepreneurs around the world are shifting their mindsets around business innovation and what you can take away from their approach. View the full recap at ideou.com/blog.
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Apr 14, 2020 • 42min
Design Thinking AMA with Suz & Coe
What is design thinking? Why does it work? How do I get started with it? Our community had so many great questions on the power and potential of design thinking that we hosted an Ask Me Anything session on the topic with IDEO partners and IDEO U leaders Suzanne Gibbs Howard and Coe Leta Stafford. View the full recap at ideou.com/blog.
