Laura Holson's guest appearances

Laura Holson

Commonwealth Club of California Podcast

Fearless Creative Leadership

Anne Devereux-Mills

Reid Hoffman

Elon Musk

Bill Gates

Steven Pinker

Kamala Harris

Alexander Wang

Deepak Chopra

Sean Spicer

Donald Trump

Nancy Pelosi

Cecile Richards

Jake Tapper

Roger McNamee

Alex Gibney

OwlTail

Sarah Stein Greenberg

The great creatives throughout history have been those who can ignite their own fire of innovation and ambition, but what is the flint that brings these sparks of creativity to life? And in a time of great uncertainty, why does creativity matter more than ever? As executive director of Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (commonly referred to as the d.school), Sarah Stein Greenberg is an accomplice to dazzling ingenuity. In her debut book, Creative Acts for Curious People, Stein Greenberg taps into her close ties with bold thinkers and confident doers, providing readers with the ultimate mechanisms to get creative juices flowing. Straight from the cognitive toolkits of Google’s chief evangelist or renowned choreographers, Stein Greenberg lays out practices for mindful observation, intuitive connecting and much much more. The more than 80 exercises, while lighthearted, require a thoughtfulness and intentionality meant to give readers their very own eureka moment.At INFORUM, Sarah Stein Greenberg will piece together the puzzle that is design. She shares not only tools but anecdotes and personal experiences in which she illustrates the roadmap that shows how to revitalize curiosity and in turn putting that curiosity into action. This conversation will be moderated by Laura Holson of The New York Times.SPEAKERSSarah Stein GreenbergExecutive Director, Stanford d.school; Author, Creative Acts for Curious People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional WayLaura HolsonWriter, The New York TimesIn response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on October 6th, 2021 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The great creatives throughout history have been those who can ignite their own fire of innovation and ambition, but what is the flint that brings these sparks of creativity to life? And in a time of great uncertainty, why does creativity matter more than ever? As executive director of Stanford’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (commonly referred to as the d.school), Sarah Stein Greenberg is an accomplice to dazzling ingenuity. In her debut book, Creative Acts for Curious People, Stein Greenberg taps into her close ties with bold thinkers and confident doers, providing readers with the ultimate mechanisms to get creative juices flowing. Straight from the cognitive toolkits of Google’s chief evangelist or renowned choreographers, Stein Greenberg lays out practices for mindful observation, intuitive connecting and much much more. The more than 80 exercises, while lighthearted, require a thoughtfulness and intentionality meant to give readers their very own eureka moment.At INFORUM, Sarah Stein Greenberg will piece together the puzzle that is design. She shares not only tools but anecdotes and personal experiences in which she illustrates the roadmap that shows how to revitalize curiosity and in turn putting that curiosity into action. This conversation will be moderated by Laura Holson of The New York Times.SPEAKERSSarah Stein GreenbergExecutive Director, Stanford d.school; Author, Creative Acts for Curious People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional WayLaura HolsonWriter, The New York TimesIn response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are currently hosting all of our live programming via YouTube live stream. This program was recorded via video conference on October 6th, 2021 by the Commonwealth Club of California. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Sarah Stein Greenberg and Laura Holson: Creative Acts for Curious People

This week’s guest is Laura Holson of The New York Times. She is a brilliant and award-winning feature writer and visual editor who has written extensively about Hollywood, Silicon Valley, as well as powerful figures in finance and politics. Our conversation covered a lot of areas. Her love of and approach to writing compelling stories. Why and how she created The Box Session salons which pull together extraordinarily creative people from all areas of the creative industries. Her firsthand and up-close insights into the leadership of Steve Jobs at Pixar, and Michael Eisner and Bob Iger at Disney. And her own views of the priorities and challenges faced by today’s leaders. At the heart of all of it is Laura’s own journey, one that included a bout of long COVID that she wrote about in the Times earlier this year. Like a lot of us, Laura has had time to reflect about life. Creativity is a human attribute. It also scares a lot of people. But then so does life. We spend so much time tying to find our place in the world, so much time trying to adapt, to adjust and to fit in. We care so much about what other people think of us. Of what we do. Or how we behave. Then suddenly life is over, and in the process of fitting into other people’s definitions of who we are, we suddenly discover that we never found out who we could have been. Or we can choose another path. One that we design ourselves. One in which we show up as the full version of who we are. And then watch people follow your leadership. How do you do that? Perhaps, Mark Twain said it best. “Sing like no one is listening, love like you never been hurt, dance like no one is watching and live like it is heaven on earth.”

This week’s guest is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/laura-m-holson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Laura Holson</a> of The New York Times. She is a brilliant and award-winning feature writer and visual editor who has written extensively about Hollywood, Silicon Valley, as well as powerful figures in finance and politics. Our conversation covered a lot of areas. Her love of and approach to writing compelling stories. Why and how she created The Box Session salons which pull together extraordinarily creative people from all areas of the creative industries. Her firsthand and up-close insights into the leadership of Steve Jobs at Pixar, and Michael Eisner and Bob Iger at Disney. And her own views of the priorities and challenges faced by today’s leaders. At the heart of all of it is Laura’s own journey, one that included a bout of long COVID that she wrote about in the Times earlier this year. Like a lot of us, Laura has had time to reflect about life. Creativity is a human attribute. It also scares a lot of people. But then so does life. We spend so much time tying to find our place in the world, so much time trying to adapt, to adjust and to fit in. We care so much about what other people think of us. Of what we do. Or how we behave. Then suddenly life is over, and in the process of fitting into other people’s definitions of who we are, we suddenly discover that we never found out who we could have been. Or we can choose another path. One that we design ourselves. One in which we show up as the full version of who we are. And then watch people follow your leadership. How do you do that? Perhaps, Mark Twain said it best. “Sing like no one is listening, love like you never been hurt, dance like no one is watching and live like it is heaven on earth.”

Ep 320: Laura Holson of The New York Times - 'The Writer'

Edited highlights of our full conversation. This week’s guest is Laura Holson of The New York Times. She is a brilliant and award-winning feature writer and visual editor who has written extensively about Hollywood, Silicon Valley and powerful figures in finance and politics. Our conversation covered a lot of areas. Her love of and approach to writing compelling stories. Why and how she created the Box Session salons which pull together extraordinarily creative people from all areas of the creative industries. Her first-hand and up close insights into the leadership of Steve Jobs at Pixar, and Michael Eisner and Bob Iger at Disney. And her own views of the priorities and challenges faced by today’s leaders. At the heart of all of that is Laura’s own journey, one that included a bout of long COVID that she wrote about in the Times earlier this year. Like a lot of us, Laura has had time to reflect about life. Creativity is a human attribute. It also scares a lot of people. But then so does life. We spend so much time tying to find our place in the world, so much time trying to adapt, adjust and fit in. We care so much about what other people think of us. Of what we do. Or how we behave. Then suddenly life is over, and in the process of fitting into other people’s definitions of who we are, we suddenly discover that we never found out who we could have been. Or we can choose another path. One that we design ourselves. One in which we show up as the full version of who we are. And then watch people follow your leadership. How do you do that? Perhaps, Mark Twain said it best. “Sing like no one is listening, love like you never been hurt, dance like no one is watching and live like it is heaven on earth.”

Edited highlights of our full conversation. This week’s guest is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/laura-m-holson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Laura Holson</a> of The New York Times. She is a brilliant and award-winning feature writer and visual editor who has written extensively about Hollywood, Silicon Valley and powerful figures in finance and politics. Our conversation covered a lot of areas. Her love of and approach to writing compelling stories. Why and how she created the Box Session salons which pull together extraordinarily creative people from all areas of the creative industries. Her first-hand and up close insights into the leadership of Steve Jobs at Pixar, and Michael Eisner and Bob Iger at Disney. And her own views of the priorities and challenges faced by today’s leaders. At the heart of all of that is Laura’s own journey, one that included a bout of long COVID that she wrote about in the Times earlier this year. Like a lot of us, Laura has had time to reflect about life. Creativity is a human attribute. It also scares a lot of people. But then so does life. We spend so much time tying to find our place in the world, so much time trying to adapt, adjust and fit in. We care so much about what other people think of us. Of what we do. Or how we behave. Then suddenly life is over, and in the process of fitting into other people’s definitions of who we are, we suddenly discover that we never found out who we could have been. Or we can choose another path. One that we design ourselves. One in which we show up as the full version of who we are. And then watch people follow your leadership. How do you do that? Perhaps, Mark Twain said it best. “Sing like no one is listening, love like you never been hurt, dance like no one is watching and live like it is heaven on earth.”

Ep 320: Laura Holson - In 15