Alex Naghavi's guest appearances

Alex Naghavi

Australian Design Radio

OnProcess

Future Women Leadership Series

Andrew Small

Matt Haynes

Andy Hoyne

Jacinta Conza

Timothy Goodman

Barry Spencer

Ian Anderson

Sean Smith

Alex Grigg

Alex Kirchner

Justin Smith

Chris Maclean

Vince Frost

Kyle Steed

Dan Stiles

OwlTail

Do creative people lead differently? Executive Creative Director and Partner at Josephmark Alex Naghavi helped build the original Future Women brand, and has expert insight into how creatives work and lead. Host Helen McCabe asks Alex what she looks for when hiring creatives, how to make sure that you're leading the creative members of your team most effectively, and the one question Alex always asks when interviewing, to find her perfect culture fit.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Do creative people lead differently? Executive Creative Director and Partner at Josephmark Alex Naghavi helped build the original Future Women brand, and has expert insight into how creatives work and lead. Host Helen McCabe asks Alex what she looks for when hiring creatives, how to make sure that you're leading the creative members of your team most effectively, and the one question Alex always asks when interviewing, to find her perfect culture fit.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Alex Naghavi on leading as a creative

Alex Nahavi is the Executive Creative Director at the forward thinking design studio Josephmark. Josephmark is a venture studio, which is an incubator model, where they utilize resources and facilities to make ideas that they want to see in the world whether self funded or raising capitol with investors. We talk pitching and investing, viability and creative direction from this unique point of view. We talk about how important big ideas and blue sky thinking is in the process, while also being able to switch gears and do the smallest iterations and developing things like a minimal viable product and using objective metrics to study success like demand testing. Alex shares a ton of insights and knowledge into the unique world of a venture studio, things like do's - don'ts and process of pitching investors, product testing and raising capitol. It's incredibly fascinating the colliding of the investment, start up and venture world with the digital product design and creativity space. Alex speaks and gives some killer books and resources around her passion of mentorship and how pivotal this and creative culture is to building a thriving creative studio. Introducing Alex Naghavi On Creative Direction.     Alex Naghavi alexnaghavi.com alex@josephmark.com.au josephmark.com.au thebrokecollector.com     Links Japanese word “Kaizen” Startup Podcast  Interview with Bill Tai Harvest Asana 15Five  The Emotionally Intelligent Office - Book  The Making of a Manager - Book  Creativity Ink - Book  The Lean Startup - Book  Articulating Design Decisions - Book  Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff - Book     Quotes “The big difference between what makes a good creative director and a great creative director in my mind is someone that has empathy and understanding and can communicate with compassion." "You want to become a leader not a manager, a leader is someone that inspires people to take action and do their best work, a manager is simply managing someone to get the work done." "Make shit happen." "I'm a strong believer in following what really makes your heart race." "Our model very much allows us to invest in our own ideas and really take control of what we want to see in the world." "It's all about speed, so how do we improve that and how do you remain creative." "We’re trying to figure out how do we improve how we do things already and make it a little bit faster whilst actually making us more creative, that’s the challenge." "I love creating, I love making, I need to make things, I'm obsessed with making things" "I'm constantly looking at ways that I can improve something."     Original Theme Music by  Devin Luke - devinlukemusic.com     Stay In Touch onprocess.com @onprocesspodcast   If this episode helped you in any way, we would love your support. The best way to support us is by Subscribing to the show in iTunes and writing us a review. Thanks for listening.

Alex Nahavi is the Executive Creative Director at the forward thinking design studio Josephmark. Josephmark is a venture studio, which is an incubator model, where they utilize resources and facilities to make ideas that they want to see in the world whether self funded or raising capitol with investors. We talk pitching and investing, viability and creative direction from this unique point of view. We talk about how important big ideas and blue sky thinking is in the process, while also being able to switch gears and do the smallest iterations and developing things like a minimal viable product and using objective metrics to study success like demand testing. Alex shares a ton of insights and knowledge into the unique world of a venture studio, things like do's - don'ts and process of pitching investors, product testing and raising capitol. It's incredibly fascinating the colliding of the investment, start up and venture world with the digital product design and creativity space. Alex speaks and gives some killer books and resources around her passion of mentorship and how pivotal this and creative culture is to building a thriving creative studio. Introducing Alex Naghavi On Creative Direction. Alex Naghavi <a href="http://www.alexnaghavi.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">alexnaghavi.com</a> <a href="mailto:alex@josephmark.com.au">alex@josephmark.com.au</a> <a href="https://www.josephmark.com.au/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">josephmark.com.au</a> <a href="https://www.thebrokecollector.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">thebrokecollector.com</a> Links <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizen" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Japanese word “Kaizen”</a> <a href="https://gimletmedia.com/shows/startup" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Startup Podcast</a> <a href="https://money.cnn.com/interactive/technology/15-questions-with-bill-tai/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Interview with Bill Tai</a> <a href="https://www.getharvest.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Harvest</a> <a href="https://asana.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Asana</a> <a href="https://www.15five.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">15Five</a> <a href="https://www.theschooloflife.com/shop/the-emotionally-intelligent-office/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> The Emotionally Intelligent Office - Book</a> <a href="https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-making-of-a-manager-julie-zhuo/book/9780753552896.html?source=pla&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3tDzjvSa5gIVhI-PCh2bBwlEEAQYASABEgKSFfD_BwE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> The Making of a Manager - Book</a> <a href="https://www.booktopia.com.au/creativity-inc--ed-catmull/book/9780593070109.html?source=pla&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIn-Lw0vSa5gIVCyQrCh2FlwFBEAQYASABEgIlgfD_BwE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Creativity Ink - Book</a> <a href="https://www.booktopia.com.au/the-lean-startup-eric-ries/book/9780307887894.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> The Lean Startup - Book</a> <a href="https://www.booktopia.com.au/articulating-design-decisions-tom-greever/book/9781491921562.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Articulating Design Decisions - Book</a> <a href="https://www.booktopia.com.au/don-t-sweat-the-small-stuff-richard-carlson/book/9780733800849.html?source=pla&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgpO55faa5gIVjx0rCh0n_APtEAQYASABEgL36fD_BwE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Don’t Sweat The Small Stuff - Book</a> Quotes “The big difference between what makes a good creative director and a great creative director in my mind is someone that has empathy and understanding and can communicate with compassion." "You want to become a leader not a manager, a leader is someone that inspires people to take action and do their best work, a manager is simply managing someone to get the work done." "Make shit happen." "I'm a strong believer in following what really makes your heart race." "Our model very much allows us to invest in our own ideas and really take control of what we want to see in the world." "It's all about speed, so how do we improve that and how do you remain creative." "We’re trying to figure out how do we improve how we do things already and make it a little bit faster whilst actually making us more creative, that’s the challenge." "I love creating, I love making, I need to make things, I'm obsessed with making things" "I'm constantly looking at ways that I can improve something." Original Theme Music by <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/58ohDlnmXe5YnWkyssFWqJ?si=3bCjgKikQAS_GZ1sYlVJNw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Devin Luke</a> - <a href="http://www.devinlukemusic.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">devinlukemusic.com</a> Stay In Touch <a href="https://www.onprocesspodcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">onprocess.com</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/onprocesspodcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@onprocesspodcast</a> If this episode helped you in any way, we would love your support. The best way to support us is by <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/onprocess/id1465202913" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribing to the show in iTunes</a> and writing us a review. Thanks for listening.

Alex Naghavi On Creative Direction

Ben Johnston

In this episode, we spoke with Ben Johnston and Alex Naghavi of Joseph Mark. We began by talking about working and living in LA and projects with famous people, we spent some time at Adam Sandler’s Christmas Party and the gushed about the Hemsworth's. We later got deep into the future of sex, getting old, sexual compatibility scores and our cognitive load, venturing and investing in people (rather than an idea). ADR episodes stay on time and on track thanks to our partners at Streamtime! It's creative project management software that works. Try it streamtime.net.Big thanks to guest host Prue Jones and The Design Conference for having us. Links:https://www.josephmark.com.au http://www.alexnaghavi.com https://www.instagram.com/thebrokecollector_ http://www.thefallsfarm.com--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/australian-design-radio/message

In this episode, we spoke with Ben Johnston and Alex Naghavi of Joseph Mark. We began by talking about working and living in LA and projects with famous people, we spent some time at Adam Sandler’s Christmas Party and the gushed about the Hemsworth's. We later got deep into the future of sex, getting old, sexual compatibility scores and our cognitive load, venturing and investing in people (rather than an idea). ADR episodes stay on time and on track thanks to our partners at Streamtime! It's creative project management software that works. Try it <a href="http://streamtime.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">streamtime.net</a>. Big thanks to guest host Prue Jones and The Design Conference for having us. Links: <a href="https://www.josephmark.com.au" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.josephmark.com.au</a> <a href="http://www.alexnaghavi.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.alexnaghavi.com</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thebrokecollector_" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/thebrokecollector_</a> <a href="http://www.thefallsfarm.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.thefallsfarm.com</a> --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/australian-design-radio/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/australian-design-radio/message</a>

EP108 with Ben Johnston and Alex Naghavi