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#210 - Taking Tax prep from a painful date to a deeper meaningful affair

24 Nov 2021

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Andrew Clark is the Head of Design for Client Experience at H&R Block, delivering new, engaging client experiences. His team is focused on tapp...

#209 - If you see a door open, go through it!

09 Nov 2021

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Kayvan Sotoodeh is the VP of User Experience & Design at Tillster, a  global leader in powering online ordering and delivery solutions for restaurant...

#208 - Design the Failure!

09 Nov 2021

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Leo Frishberg is the Director of User Experience at Athenahealth, an electronic medical records company driving innovation in healthcare. Athena's pro...

#207 - Keeping your aperture open

08 Nov 2021

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Seth Roberts is the Design Director, Member, and the Personalization Platform at USAA, a provider for insurance, banking, financial products, and adv...

#206 - Creating a Common Vocabulary with Design Thinking

08 Nov 2021

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Matt Fangman, Senior Director, Design Thinking & Education at Genesys, a global contact center servicing company orchestrating over 70 billion amazing...

#205 - Continuous Growth with Continuous Iteration

08 Nov 2021

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Wayne Haber, is the Director of Engineering at GitLab. Gitlab is a complete DevOps platform, to help teams improve development cycle time from weeks t...

# 204 - Redesign Everything!

08 Nov 2021

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Dave Hoffer, ex-McKinsey AP and exPWC MD, joins me to share his Design wisdom on his new book on Design Transformation. He talks about the interesting...

# 203 - The love for People, Process & Technology

08 Nov 2021

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Mathew McCarthy joins me from G4S, a leading global, integrated security company. His passion for people, process and technology comes through in this...

#202 - Leading with Customer Obsession can bring huge Returns on Life

14 Oct 2021

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Sandy Carter is the Vice President, Amazon Web Services. The ever-changing flavors of the tech industry keeps her excited about creative ways of solvi...

#201 - The common language of relationships across the Globe

13 Oct 2021

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Amit Bhargava is the Senior Director of Product Marketing at Infineon Technologies, a legacy global semiconductor manufacturing enterprise who believe...

#200 - Make it easier, move the napkins, forks and knives to the end of the dinner table!

13 Oct 2021

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Ethan Danstrom is the VP of User Experience at Signify Health, a leading healthcare platform that leverages technology to create value-based payment p...

#199 - Illuminating the Path to Student Success with AI

13 Oct 2021

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Tosin Aje-Adegbite is the senior director of product management at EAB. EAB is an education management organization with the mission to make educati...

198 - A collaborative culture leads to great products that are inclusive

04 Oct 2021

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Sal Bolaños, Design Director at TransUnion, which is a global information and insights company that makes trust possible between businesses and cons...

#197 - Getting to real-time decision making with good quality data

04 Oct 2021

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Mark Zais is the Chief Data Scientist at US Special Operations Command. He is an experienced Army officer with a history of military leadership roles ...

#196 - Translating the fear of failure into empathy for users, so they don't fail!

04 Oct 2021

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Lauren Zack is the VP of Product Design at Doma, formerly known as States Title. Under Lauren's leadership, this group is aggressively working on maki...

#195 - The WHY behind Product Design

23 Sep 2021

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Adam Kesner,  Senior Director of Product Management joins me from COX Automotive, a global company with more than 27,000 team members and a family of...

#194 - From storytelling on the radio to stories behind digital experiences

17 Sep 2021

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Nathan Felt is an Experience and Product Design Leader at Wells Fargo.  He blends his passion for Psychology, Technology and Storytelling in his work...

#193 - How to PM your life?

17 Sep 2021

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Alexander Weingart is the Director of Product & Design at Red Ventures, the #1 digital media company in the US. Red Ventures has a stable of well-know...

#192 - Getting small businesses unstuck!

17 Sep 2021

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Rich Poulsen is the Director of User Experience (UX) at Lendio who is creating a new reality for small business owners by providing easy access to ...

#191 - Here's a dinner recipe with the ingredients in your fridge for tonight!

13 Sep 2021

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Graham Sadtler joins me from Bosch where he heads Product Development and Innovation teams for over 11 years, with a focus on usability, brand desig...

#190 - Failing Fast to Career Success

06 Sep 2021

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Koji Pereira is the Senior Manager of Product Design at Twitter, and was formerly Head of Design for Lyft Business. In our conversation, he discusses ...

#189 - Exploring freedom with framework

03 Sep 2021

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Abhay Kataria is the Senior Director of Engineering at Seagate Technologies which is a precision-engineered data storage company based in  Fremont,...

#188 - From Wiring Defects to Patient Experience

02 Sep 2021

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Devesh Dahale currently works as the Director of Health Systems Engineering at Southeast Health, a 420-bed regional facility. This team, through innov...

#187 - The Parody of Music and Tech.

02 Sep 2021

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David DesRoches joins me from Oliver Wyman, where he heads the Engineering team. Oliver Wyman Digital is a premier technical delivery and advisory str...

#186 - The magical words inside the Experience

26 Aug 2021

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Selene De La Cruz is the Director of Content Design & Strategy at Mastercard which is a global technology company in the payments industry. Her desk a...

#185 - Be relentless about understanding your user!

26 Aug 2021

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Drew Falkman joins me today. He brings his stories from his early days in product design when he designed an app for live cattle auctions to now when ...

#184 - Your New Shopping Companion

26 Aug 2021

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Brian Barclay is the Sr Director of Product Design at a Japanese firm Rakuten Americas, In Japanese, Rakuten means "optimism." a global leader in inte...

#183 - Elevating the Developers Experience.

17 Aug 2021

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Travis Gosselin is the principal software engineer at SPS Commerce, the world's leading retail network, connecting trading partners around the globe t...

#182 - Why isn't the world full of delightful products?

17 Aug 2021

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Houshang Livian is the Head of Design at Cloudera, a company that believes data can make what is impossible today, possible tomorrow. If you are curio...

#181 - The Artful Science of Digital Transformation

17 Aug 2021

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René Insam is the Sr. Director, Product Management & Business Transformation at AIG Retirement Services. René shares the power of culture and cha...

#180 - Humanizing Customer Interactions

03 Aug 2021

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Justin Chappell Joins me from Hyland where he heads the global customer experience for Hyland, which is a  leading content services provider that en...

#179 - Learning at Scale at Shell

03 Aug 2021

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Brent Kedzierski is the Head of Learning Strategy and Innovation at Shell. We discuss what it takes to globalize knowledge management and make sure an...

#178 - When I see that Shoe again, I hit "Buy Now"!

29 Jul 2021

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Ashish Basaria is the EVP and Head of CX at Firstsource, a team that Digitally Empowers Contact Centers for large enterprises. From existing technolog...

#177 - Making AI consumable in the exciting world of Sports Tech.

17 Jul 2021

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Nancy Hensley joins me from stats perform and brings a lot of energy from her sports right into this episode, she talks about her rendezvous with dat...

#176 - Translating high emotional intelligence to meaningful software products

15 Jul 2021

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Harshad Agashe joins us from Green Dot Corporation, where he heads the product management for banking as a service platform. Green Dot is a leader in ...

#175 - Hot Techniques for Managing Cold Storage Warehouses

15 Jul 2021

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Srinivas Gudipati is the VP of IT at USCold Storage, he has a demonstrated history of working in the warehousing and logistics industry for 20 plus ye...

#174 - Applying the 80:20 rule in Product Development

16 Jun 2021

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Ebenezer Schubert, Sr. Director of Engineering with Citrix, joins us as a guest on this episode. He shares a lot of his stories from childhood, growin...

#173 - Staying on Product Strategy as one Team

10 Jun 2021

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Jay Haynes is the founder and CEO of Thrv, a jobs-to-be-done product management software. Jay brings a lot of intelligence into product design stra...

#172 - Small Innovation is also Innovation

08 Jun 2021

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Saira Kazmi is Senior Director of Enterprise Data Strategy and Engineering at CVS Health. With a strong background in Academia to practice data archit...

#171 - Data literacy is the need of the hour

03 Jun 2021

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Lalit Wadhwa, is my guest in this episode. He is the EVP & Chief Technology Officer at Encora, a leader in the large and rapidly growing outsourced pr...

#170 - The Holy Trinity of Business

03 Jun 2021

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The Holy Trinity of business. This is the first time we are having a panel discussion on our podcast. I'm super excited to bring to you: The successfu...

#169 - Keeping it simple almost never fails!

03 Jun 2021

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Christopher Slee is the Founder, Principal, and Chief Product Officer at AWH, an elite digital product firm from Dublin, Ohio.   As an early starter ...

#168 - Transforming the Oil & Gas sector one experiment at a time

02 Jun 2021

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Nada Ahmed is the Vice President Digitalization and Transformation at Aker Solutions, a leading engineering company based in Norway that provides the ...

#167 - Start by understanding your own maturity level

28 May 2021

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Prashant Natarajan is VP of Healthcare Analytics at H2O.ai, a leader in open source AI with a mission to democratize AI for all.   Prashant brings a...

#166 - How do you define success or failure in a vibrant ecosystem of constant change?

27 May 2021

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Adnan Khaleel, Senior Director & Global Sales Strategist at Dell Technologies, shares that the everyday excitement at work is the constantly changing ...

#165 - The future of work from Afghanistan to the USA

27 May 2021

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Travis May is a Director of Workforce Innovation at a major financial services & technology company. He shares his fascinating journey into technology...

#164 - The Power of Data Democratization

24 May 2021

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Mark Palmer is the SVP & General Manager of Analytics, Data Science & Data Virtualization at Tibco Software where he plays a key role in unlocking the...

#163 - AI is like salt in a recipe

20 May 2021

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Kalyana Bedhu is an AI/Machine learning thought leader specializing in integrating digital transformation, data science and processes in the AI space ...

#162 - Top three type of failures

20 May 2021

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Howard Tiersky, the CEO at a digital transformation agency called FROM, helping companies win with today's customers who reserve their loyalty for bra...

#161 - What truly matters is, what people want!

17 May 2021

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Adam Bleibtreu is the Chief Marketing Officer at two organizations ASGN & Creative Circle where he helps leading corporate enterprises and government ...

#160 - Do we need more time to Design the right things?

07 May 2021

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Rafael Matuk joins us from Chicago, where he is the Sr. Director of Health Solutions at AON, a leading global professional services firm providing a b...

#159 - The Science of Activating Dormant Data

06 May 2021

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Michel Tricot is the Co-Founder of Airbyte, which is the new open-source data integration platform that syncs data from applications, APIs & databases...

#158 - How to iterate quickly in Healthtech

30 Apr 2021

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Benjamin Gold is the Senior Director of Product Management at Change Healthcare. Ben shares his journey into product management and ultimately into p...

#157 - Mental Wellbeing is the Key to Innovation

28 Apr 2021

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Brad Jaehn is the Vice President of Product Strategy at Arrivia who are specialists in making brands better through the power of travel, on a mission ...

#156 - Autonomous engineering teams that work

28 Apr 2021

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Varghese (Alex) Alexander is a Senior Director of Engineering at UnitedHealth Group. Alex shares his story rising the ranks of engineering leadership ...

#155 - How to build a design team in a more traditional company

26 Apr 2021

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Janine Nock is the Director of User Experience at Freedom Mortgage. Janine has a long career as a UX Design leader working inside large organizations ...

#154 - Leading strong into the unknown

22 Apr 2021

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Anita Jindal is a Senior Director of Engineering at VMware, an American cloud computing and virtualization technology company headquartered in Califor...

#153 - Can you hear the Signature of Sound?

06 Apr 2021

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Ramesh Tirumala, the Director of Engineering and Digital Strategy at Welbuilt joins me as my first guest from the Food and Beverages industry. Welbuil...

#152 - Be Honest to your Craft

01 Apr 2021

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Priyanka Agrawal, Country Head Isobar Consulting, a global digital agency, creating exceptional brand experiences. She also Co-founded Frantal Ink, an...

#151 - A look at Technology Evolution from PDA systems to a Future of Zero Trust Ecosystems

30 Mar 2021

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Ron Herardian is a cybersecurity leader with 25 years of leadership for IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, DevOps, SRE and DevSecOps. Co-founder of a cybersecurity sta...

#150 - Why does the tomato slice fit perfectly inside your Wendy's burger bun?

26 Mar 2021

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Shri Director, Digital Experience at Main Line Health (MLH) is a not-for-profit health system serving acute care hospital facilities, homecare and hos...

#149 - Mike Colarossi: The Art of the Possible

11 Mar 2021

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Mike Colarossi is the Vice President of Product Line Management, Innovation and Sustainability at Avery Dennison, a global material sciences company. ...

#148 - Creating A Culture Of Innovation Within Government

09 Mar 2021

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Lorena Molina-Irizarry is the Director of Operations at the United States Census Open Innovation Labs. Here she's leading a small but mighty team to r...

#146 - Doing less of what doesn't matter to do more of what does!

23 Feb 2021

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My guest Ronnie Thomas is the Senior Director of Software Engineering at Werner Enterpries which is among the five largest truckload carriers in the U...

#145 - When data tells it's own story, it's like Magic!

17 Feb 2021

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Asma Malik is the Head of Robotics & Data Science at JPMorgan Chase & Co, a leading global financial services firm with operations servicing clients i...

#144 - Let's sing in harmony from the same sheet of music

10 Feb 2021

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Phil Golub is the Executive Creative Director, Digital Product Innovation & Service Design Expert at Symphony Talent, this team is redefining how empl...

#143 - Your Fiduciary Responsibility Should Reflect in the Product You Design

10 Feb 2021

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Sambit Behera is the Vice President for Product Management at BlackRock, a global asset manager helping investors build better financial futures. Samb...

#142 - Outcome - First Approach to Product Design

04 Feb 2021

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Christopher Brereton is the partner and VP of Product at Sidebench which is a strategy, design, and development consultancy based in Los Angeles. Chri...

#141 - The Instant Gratification or Instant Failure of Digital Marketing

03 Feb 2021

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Kevin Raynolds is the Director of Client Strategy at TruStar Marketing the leaders in Mobile First Voice Search Engine Optimization, serving hospitals...

#140 - Innovation on Auto

29 Jan 2021

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Sree Ravela is a Senior Director of IT at Bridgestone Americas, and a dedicated technology team builder and leader. In this episode, he shares his le...

#139 - The Rise of the Developer/Analyst

29 Jan 2021

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Eric Rosenzweig is the VP of Information Technology at QDoba Restaurant Group, where he built the technology team after it was acquired from Jack in t...

#138 - The exciting world of digital twins for built structures!

27 Jan 2021

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Yes!! There is an exciting world where the built structures live digitally:) Badri Hiriyur Founder, CEO at T2D2.ai | VP, Director of CORE AI at Thornt...

#137 - Teaching the next generation

27 Jan 2021

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Josh Sharfman is the Chief Technology and Innovation Officer for the California Association of Realtors. He also teaches computer science at Shalhevet...

#136 - Running a successful product is like running a village

27 Jan 2021

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Aju Joseph is a senior director of Product management at Fiserv, a leading global technology provider serving a major chunk of the financial services ...

#135 - Why we need to limit the divide between product & marketing

21 Jan 2021

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Emmett Wilson is a Senior Product Manager at American Express. Emmett has seen many different sides of AMEX's innovation and R&D world. He takes us to...

#134 - Designing For Tomorrow, Today

20 Jan 2021

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Diana Alvarado is the Global SUV Product Planner at Infiniti Motor Co. where she's working to evolve the vehicle of tomorrow - actually 5 years from t...

#133 - The Myth of the Visionary

20 Jan 2021

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Brant Cooper is the NYT best-selling author of The Lean Entrepreneur and CEO of Moves the Needle. In this episode, Brant shares tales of startup cr...

#132 - Trust in Real Estate Starts with the Right Data at the Right Time

20 Jan 2021

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Pratik Dhebri is the Head of Digital Products & User Experience, at CBRE the World's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm. He s...

#131 - Positivity and Mindfulness For Techies

12 Jan 2021

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Mel Reyes is a 30 year veteran of the tech space who most recently served as the VP, IT Enterprise Program Manager for Synchrony financial services. ...

#130 - High user adoption can not be assumed

06 Jan 2021

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My guest Scott Yelton is the senior director of product management at Windstream enterprise. A fast growing organization providing telecommunication, ...

#129 - Balancing Software Engineering and People Engineering

05 Jan 2021

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Rodrigo Silveira is a Director of Engineering at Flexport where he and his team are reimagining and transforming the world of freight forwarding. He s...

#128 - Four Types of Failures

04 Jan 2021

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Ravi Evani is the Vice President, Engineering & Technology at Sapient which is the digital business transformation hub of Publicis Groupe. He kicked o...

#127 - The Wonderful World of Data Science

04 Jan 2021

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My guest Priyanka Angadi is a Data Science Manager at PWC cybersecurity team. She shares her passion for Data Science and her exciting journey of 8 ye...

#126 - Bringing an outcomes over output mindset to the government

23 Dec 2020

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Pavan Pidugu is the Chief Technology Officer of FMCSA within the Department of Transportation. Pavan recently transitioned to the public sector after ...

#125 - Show and Tell can be a huge tool for UX designers!

22 Dec 2020

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Amanda S. Powell is a UX designer at Home Depot. This role was the first role where she got challenged like never before and spent the toughest months...

#124 - It takes Two to Tango: Business + Engineering = Great Product

22 Dec 2020

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Jacob Rubin is the youngest entrepreneur guest I have had so far:) He has been fascinated about building things since a kid. He is already the founder...

#123 - Don't forget about having fun!

22 Dec 2020

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Andrew is the VP of Technology at Lazaridis School of Business and Economics in Ontario, Canada. In this episode he shares great wisdom as a young guy...

#122 - Taking on the weird stuff

22 Dec 2020

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Neil Fasen is the Senior Director of Product Practices at Best Buy. He also used to skate and build skateboards. His broken bones and scrappy, outside...

#121 - The Rubik's Cube of product

22 Dec 2020

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Mike Harper is the Data and Analytics Solution Strategy Senior Director at  Evernorth, a new company Cigna is creating to help improve global health....

#120 - Leading with a Servant Leadership Mindset

21 Dec 2020

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My guest Rob Swymer is the Country Manager, UK and Ireland at Splunk which is the world's first Data To Everything Platform. Splunk helps over 18,000 ...

#119 - The Business Case of Design

21 Dec 2020

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Kenton Hankins is the Digital Transformation Director at Pegasystems. Kenton shares his journey of spotting patterns within companies that can lead to...

#118 - The Power of Critique

19 Dec 2020

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Alianor Chapman is a Senior Director Of Engineering at Mailchimp. Alianor is a long-time Mailchimp team member where she helped build a number of crit...

#117 - Customer Centricity to Transform Global Retail

17 Dec 2020

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Ozgur Yerli is the Director Of Digital Transformation Project at LC Waikiki, a global fashion retailer with more than 1000 stores in 47 countries. Ozg...

#116 - A good Product can never be stagnant

15 Dec 2020

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Today my guest is a pretty Russian young leader Tatiana Sorokina. She is the Solutions Director, Data Science & Artificial Intelligence at Novartis, o...

#115 - The magic of the unplanned

14 Dec 2020

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Rachid El Guerrab ex-Googler who is now the CEO of Haiba - a new interactive storytelling platform he's building to empower artists. He shares lessons...

#114 - Are you taking the time to communicate your vision to your teams?

09 Dec 2020

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My guest Chiranjiv Santhosh Malla is the senior Product & Strategy manager at American Express. He talks about his struggles growing up in a small rem...

#113 - Making customer delight take flight!

09 Dec 2020

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Neha Dadbhawala is the Director of Digital Marketing Operations at McAfee but her professional life began as a flight attendant! This unlikely start g...

#112 - Good Sportsmanship in Software Development

08 Dec 2020

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Sunny Dasari is the Software Engineering Director at Cigna and in this episode, he shares lessons from a failure even when the team "played a good gam...

#111 - Golden Business Rule: Connect with your users

08 Dec 2020

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My guest Jacob Melchert is the Director of Strategy & Product at Carrier, which is a  leading global provider of sustainable building and cold chain ...

#110 - From corporate lawyer to startup strategy

03 Dec 2020

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Jesse David is the Director of Business Development at WeWork. Jesse began his career as a corporate lawyer before a set of major and exciting life ch...