Creative Confidence Podcast
Episodes
Nudge Towards Better Behaviors: Laszlo Bock
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 to...
Mom-Led Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Kate Torgersen
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Starting a business from scratch is already an admirable undertaking. Now, try starting a business while breastfeeding 7-month-old twins, raising a to...
Mindsets of Resilient Entrepreneurs: Alexandre Lazarow
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What can we learn in this moment from global entrepreneurs who are embracing constraints to build resilient, impactful businesses? Alexandre Lazarow, ...
Design Thinking AMA with Suz & Coe
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 desig...
Our New Remote Reality: Sacha Connor
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Creative Confidence Podcast, Sacha shares 10 pitfalls to look out for when working remotely and strategies for success. View th...
Build Confidence in Your Strategy: Jennifer Riel
27 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Testing might sound like a very analytical activity, but it’s actually one of the most creative things you can do when developing a strategy for you...
Impactful Presentations Online Course: Launches February 27th
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our new 5-week online course, Impactful Presentations, you’ll learn how to:–Deliver presentations that spark a shift in perspectives.–Create ...
How to Be a Better Presenter: Dav Rauch
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
IDEO’s Dav Rauch explains why it’s important to connect with your audience as a presenter and how to get them in the right mindset to be open to n...
Designing Your Work Life: Bill Burnett
30 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the #1 New York Times bestselling book Designing Your Life, Bill Burnett and his co-author Dave Evans showed us how design thinking can help us cre...
Generating Better Ideas: Brendan Boyle
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brendan Boyle, IDEO partner and founder of the IDEO Play Lab, joined us on the Creative Confidence Podcast to share how to bring more playfulness into...
Effective Storytelling at Work: Zena Barakat & Brian Janosch
10 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Resident IDEO storytellers Zena Barakat and Brian Janosch talk about the importance of stories in the world of business and innovation. Learn how to g...
Bringing out Creativity in Others: Rochael Adranly
17 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rochael Adranly, IDEO partner and general counsel, has spent her career finding the balance between the rules-based world of law and the ambiguous, no...
Identifying Business Potential: Kanyi Maqubela
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As a venture capital investor at Collaborative Fund and Kindred Ventures, Kanyi Maqubela has invested in dozens of companies—including Lyft, Kicksta...
People and Culture at Scale: Margo Downs
18 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
People and culture leader Margo Downs joined us for an episode of the Creative Confidence Series to share lessons learned from her years as a leader i...
Adopting a Musical Mindset: Michael Hendrix
08 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
An IDEO partner and global director of design, he’s also a lifelong musician and associate professor at the Berklee College of Music. He’s spent m...
Scaling a Business with Heart: Sheryl O'Loughlin
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Suz chats with Sheryl O’Loughlin who says there’s a dark side to entrepreneurship, but it’s possible to run a startup in a healthy, joyful way. ...
What Leaders Need to Thrive in Uncertainty: Tim Brown
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tim Brown, IDEO Chair and former CEO of IDEO for 19 years, shares his perspective on the qualities necessary for creative leaders in today’s unpredi...
How to Create Winning Strategies: Roger Martin
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Martin is a bit of a legend in the strategy world. His book Playing to Win, written with former Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley, is a favorite ...
Tackle Your Journey Map Roadblocks: Melanie Bell-Mayeda
06 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How do you evolve a customer journey map from a tool that inspires and explains to one that creates action? In this episode of our Creative Confidence...
Crafting Culture by Turning Insights into Actions: Didier Elzinga
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Didier Elizinga, CEO and Founder of culture analytics platform Culture Amp, joined us on the Creative Confidence Series to talk about applying design ...
Change Journeys: What Change Are You Working On?
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What do you want to change? IDEO Partner Bryan Walker introduces "change journeys" and takes us through an exercise to understand what type of journe...
Bridging the Gap Between the Future and Business Reality: Joe Gerber
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of our Creative Confidence Series, Joe Gerber, Managing Director of IDEO’s CoLab, talks about how to connect the dots between a visi...
Building a Mission-driven Business: Gina Bianchini
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of our Creative Confidence Series, IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard speaks with Mighty Networks CEO and Founder Gina Bianchini about h...
Jake Knapp Takeover #5: Reflect and move on
14 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast takeover series, Jake Knapp, designer and author of Make Time and the New York Times bestseller Sprint, shares quick tips to help you ...
Office Hours: Leadership Lessons with David Kelley
06 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this Office Hours episode of our Creative Confidence Series, David Kelley, founder of IDEO and the Stanford d.school, chats with IDEO U Dean Suzann...
Jake Knapp Takeover #4: Go distraction-free
21 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast takeover series, Jake Knapp, designer and author of Make Time and the New York Times bestseller Sprint, shares quick tips to help you ...
Jake Knapp Takeover #3: Invent a deadline
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast takeover series, Jake Knapp, designer and author of Make Time and the New York Times bestseller Sprint, shares quick tips to help you ...
Guiding Your Team Through Creative Collaboration: Mike Peng
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of our Creative Confidence Series, IDEO Partner and Managing Director Mike Peng chats with IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard about crea...
Jake Knapp Takeover #2: Block your calendar
07 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast takeover series, Jake Knapp, designer and author of Make Time and the New York Times bestseller Sprint, shares quick tips to help you ...
Why Everyone Should Prototype (Not Just Designers): Chris Nyffeler
04 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of our Creative Confidence Series, IDEO Executive Design Director Chris Nyffeler chats with IDEO U Managing Director Coe Leta Stafford...
Jake Knapp Takeover #1: Choose Your Highlight
26 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast takeover series, Jake Knapp, designer and author of Make Time and the New York Times bestseller Sprint, shares quick tips to help you ...
How Great Teams Leverage Tension as a Source for Innovation: Daniel Coyle
05 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Coyle chats with IDEO U Managing Director Coe Leta Stafford about his newest book, The Culture Code, three skills that the most successful team...
Office Hours: Empathy Exercises with Jane Fulton Suri
29 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
[Bonus Episode] In this Office Hours edition of our Creative Confidence Series, Jane Fulton Suri, IDEO Partner Emeritus and Executive Design Director,...
Making Time for Creative Work: Jake Knapp
15 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jake Knapp has spent years figuring out how to prioritize the things that matter in an increasingly distracting world. In this episode of our Creative...
Tapping into the Power of Questions: Warren Berger
04 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“If you’re human, you’re creative.” —Warren Berger, Innovation Expert & AuthorInnovation expert and author Warren Berger has spent years stu...
How a Museum Uses Creativity & Collaboration to Reach 200M Annually
15 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Flink, executive director of the Exploratorium, former IDEO partner, and a founding faculty member of Stanford University’s d.school talks to ...
The Art of the Insight: Learnings from 30 Years of Curiosity and Empathy
08 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of our Creative Confidence Series, Jane Fulton Suri, IDEO Partner Emeritus and Executive Design Director, and Dean of IDEO U Suzanne G...
David Kelley on the Design Abilities of Creative Problem Solvers
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In our most recent Creative Confidence Series chat, David Kelley, founder of IDEO and the Stanford d.school, and IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard sat ...
Office Hours: IDEO U Co-Founders Share Tips for Getting Creative at Work
28 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In a special episode of our Creative Confidence Series podcast, IDEO U co-managing directors Suzanne Gibbs Howard and Coe Leta Stafford answered quest...
How Design Can Make Healthcare More Human
18 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Waugh, Chief Innovation Officer at Sutter Health, and Suz sat down to discuss how service design can radically and rapidly change the ways healt...
How to Design for Social Impact
19 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jocelyn Wyatt, Chief Executive Officer of IDEO.org, and Dean of IDEO U Suzanne Gibbs Howard as discussed the unique challenges of designing for the so...
6 Qualities That Build an Environment of Creativity
10 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest Creative Confidence Series chat, David Aycan, IDEO Products Managing Director, and IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard sat down to discuss ...
Trends Shaping Creative Leadership in China
01 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In our most recent Creative Confidence Series chat, Charles Hayes, Executive Managing Director of IDEO Asia, and IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard disc...
How Shifting Your Mindset Can Ignite Transformation
16 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Keith Yamashita, SYPartners Chairman and Founder and instructor for our newest class From Superpowers to Great Teams, sat down with IDEO U Managing Di...
How to Prototype Organizational Change
20 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In our latest Creative Confidence Series Chat, Suzanne Gibbs Howard, Dean of IDEO U, chatted with Mathew Chow, Director of Organizational Design at ID...
3 Ways to Design Better Service Experiences
09 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In our most recent Creative Confidence Series chat, IDEO managing director and Human-Centered Service Design instructor Melanie Bell-Mayeda and IDEO U...
What Facebook Has Learned About Motivation in the Modern Workplace
23 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Suz sat down with Brynn Harrington, director of People Growth at Facebook, to discuss the question, what’s truly motivating to people in the modern ...
Tim Brown on Why Leadership is Not About Having All the Answers
03 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In our most recent Creative Confidence Series chat, IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard sat down with IDEO CEO Tim Brown for a conversation on Tim’s ev...
Ways Design Can Help Educators Create Change
25 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Teachers are the innovators education has been waiting for, and design thinking can help them activate their own creativity and solve the biggest chal...
Myths of Creativity & Ways to Overcome Creative Blocks
25 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In our most recent Creative Confidence Series chat, Coe sat down with IDEO Play Lab founder Brendan Boyle and Suzanne Gibbs Howard, Dean of IDEO U, to...
How to Build a Better Business Through Design
23 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
At IDEO, we believe that you can design the parts of a business just like you can any product, service, or brand. As Amy points out, it’s about real...
On Catalysts and Barriers to Innovation in Latin America
18 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
IDEO Partner Luis Cilimingras and IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard discussed how technological and cultural shifts are affecting business in Latin Ame...
How to Be a Better Storyteller
30 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Storytelling for Influence Instructor and IDEO Design Director Jenn Maer and IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard discussed the tools and mindsets that ca...
Tackling Big Change in Your Organization
01 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Owen Rogers works with companies on some of their biggest existential challenges. In this Creative Confidence Series episode, we chat with Owen, IDEO ...
What’s Your Superpower—and its Shadow Side?
09 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Your Superpower is your contribution, the role that you’re put on this Earth to fill. It’s what you do better than anyone else. Tapping into it wi...
Designing a Better Food System
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest Creative Confidence Series chat, Lynda Deakin, Managing Director of IDEO’s Design for Food studio, joined Suz to chat about ways desig...
How to Make Your Culture More Entrepreneurial with Eric Ries
16 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Eric and Suz chat about how to help your company change mindsets and become more experimental, lean, and accountable. Eric's observation is that these...
Blockchain and Distributed Web 101
29 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We sat down with CoLab’s Joe Gerber and Gavin McDermott to talk about the distributed web and blockchains and why it's important to experiment with ...
Tips for How to Prototype a Service
08 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How do you prototype designing something that isn’t tangible, like a service?In this Creative Confidence Series webcast, IDEO Partner and Managing D...
Advice from IDEO’s Chief Creative Officer on Inspiring Creative Work
25 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
We spoke with Paul about what he sees as cornerstones of creative leadership, how to catalyze people toward action, and his no fear attitude toward de...
This is the Way Google & IDEO Foster Creativity
30 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Curious about what makes a successful, innovative team, Google led a two-year research project with 280 teams. They found only one distinction between...
How to Create Change in Your Organization
27 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Designing for change is about helping leaders transform their organizations’ cultures and businesses in pursuit of innovation, adaptability, and imp...
Adventures in Storytelling & Sailing from an IDEO U Alumni
23 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
After two years of sailing 15,000 miles around the globe with her husband and seven-year-old son, Jennifer Massaro returned home with a new perspectiv...
David Kelley on Design Thinking
31 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Design thinking is a mindset (almost a way of life). It opens you up to new directions and perspectives. And the more you exercise the design thinking...
Design Thinking in Healthcare
25 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In our Creative Confidence Series chat with IDEO Design Researcher Silvia Vergani and Principal Research Scientist at Verily Life Sciences Danielle Sc...
How to Prototype a Business with Joe Gerber
25 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In our Creative Confidence series chat with IDEO CoLab Co-Managing Director Joe Gerber, we explored the world of business prototyping. In his early da...
Unlock a Creative Confidence Mindset
28 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
IDEO Partner Tom Kelley is passionate about moving organizations and people from understanding and utilizing the tools of design thinking to unlocking...