Angel Annunciacao

Learn design tools for testing value propositions, how to understand willingness to pay, and how to uncover insights to help finetune your value proposition.View the full recap at: ideo.in/angel-annunciacao

Learn design tools for testing value propositions, how to understand willingness to pay, and how to uncover insights to help finetune your value proposition. View the full recap at: <a href="http://ideo.in/angel-annunciacao" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ideo.in/angel-annunciacao</a>

How to Test Value Propositions: Angel Annunciacao

Learn how to create a remote influence plan from Sacha Connor, Founder of Virtual Work Insider.View the full recap at https://ideo.in/sacha

Learn how to create a remote influence plan from Sacha Connor, Founder of Virtual Work Insider. View the full recap at <a href="https://ideo.in/sacha" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ideo.in/sacha</a>

Influence as a Remote or Hybrid Worker: Sacha Connor

Learn how to use data to uncover opportunities for innovation and better understand people and problems from Bo Peng, Senior Portfolio Director of Data Science at IDEO.View the full recap at https://ideo.in/bo

Learn how to use data to uncover opportunities for innovation and better understand people and problems from Bo Peng, Senior Portfolio Director of Data Science at IDEO. View the full recap at <a href="https://ideo.in/bo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ideo.in/bo</a>

How to Use Data for Innovation: Bo Peng

Deirdre Cerminaro

Bryan Walker

Why leading change always starts with people, and tools you can try to make people the catalysts for change.View the full recap at https://www.ideou.com/blogs/inspiration

Why leading change always starts with people, and tools you can try to make people the catalysts for change. View the full recap at <a href="https://www.ideou.com/blogs/inspiration" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ideou.com/blogs/inspiration</a>

Leading Change: Deirdre Cerminaro and Bryan Walker

Kim Scott

Learn a framework for identifying bias, prejudice and bullying and choosing a response; tools leaders can use to disrupt bias; and ways to be an upstander at work. View the show notes, transcript and recap at https://ideo.in/kimscott

Learn a framework for identifying bias, prejudice and bullying and choosing a response; tools leaders can use to disrupt bias; and ways to be an upstander at work. View the show notes, transcript and recap at <a href="https://ideo.in/kimscott" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ideo.in/kimscott</a>

How to Confront Bias at Work: Kim Scott

The 3 foundational elements of belonging, and the tools and levers of design you can use to foster it.View the visuals and resources discussed in this episode at https://ideo.in/susie

The 3 foundational elements of belonging, and the tools and levers of design you can use to foster it. View the visuals and resources discussed in this episode at <a href="https://ideo.in/susie" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ideo.in/susie</a>

Belonging at Work: Susie Wise

Leslie Witt

How organizations can shift toward more customer centricity, and why it starts with employee health.View the full recap at https://ideo.in/leslie

How organizations can shift toward more customer centricity, and why it starts with employee health. View the full recap at <a href="https://ideo.in/leslie" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ideo.in/leslie</a>

Customer Centricity: Leslie Witt

Tim Brown

Tips for how leaders can tap into creativity to solve today’s biggest challenges from IDEO Co-Chair Tim Brown.View the full recap at https://www.ideou.com/blogs/inspiration

Tips for how leaders can tap into creativity to solve today’s biggest challenges from IDEO Co-Chair Tim Brown. View the full recap at <a href="https://www.ideou.com/blogs/inspiration" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ideou.com/blogs/inspiration</a>

Creative Leadership: Tim Brown

Kai Frazier

Insights on creating inspiring educational experiences from Kai Frazier, Founder and CEO of edtech startup Kai XR.View the full recap at https://ideo.in/kai

Insights on creating inspiring educational experiences from Kai Frazier, Founder and CEO of edtech startup Kai XR. View the full recap at <a href="https://ideo.in/kai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ideo.in/kai</a>

Designing Memorable Experiences: Kai Frazier

Kat Vellos

Why workplace friendships are important, tips for making friends at work, and how to deepen connections with better conversations.View the full recap at ideou.com/blog

Why workplace friendships are important, tips for making friends at work, and how to deepen connections with better conversations. View the full recap at <a href="http://ideou.com/blog" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ideou.com/blog</a>

Work Friendships: Kat Vellos

The IDEO U Creative Confidence Podcast hosts candid conversations with some of today’s most inspiring change makers, design thinkers, and creative minds. IDEO U Executive Design Director Coe Leta Stafford and Founder Suzanne Gibbs Howard speak with guests about their approach to leadership, creativity, innovation, and growth. Get insight into their success through personal stories and real-world examples, and learn how to bring a human-centered approach to your own work. Discover more at IDEOU.com.

Thank you for this podcast! What an amazing breath of inspiration, encouragement, and expertise for anyone looking to increase their or others’ creative confidence.

Go to podcast for creative confidence

Thank you for creating this podcast!  I love the content and the style.  Lots of great information and it’s inspired me to sign up for your Storytelling course.  I wish I had you on speed dial.  Absent that, I’ll just keep listening!

I feel more creative just listening to this podcast

The IDEO U Creative Confidence Podcast hosts candid conversations with some of today’s most inspiring change makers, design thinkers, and creative minds. IDEO U Executive Design Director Coe Leta Stafford and Founder Suzanne Gibbs Howard speak with guests about their approach to leadership, creativity, innovation, and growth. Get insight into their success through personal stories and real-world examples, and learn how to bring a human-centered approach to your own work. Discover more at <a href="http://IDEOU.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">IDEOU.com</a>.

Creative Confidence Podcast

Storytelling for Influence Instructor and IDEO Design Director Jenn Maer and IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard discussed the tools and mindsets that can help you become a master storyteller, prototype your story, and bring your audience along on an emotional journey.Dive in deeper and learn more from Jenn Maer in our online Storytelling for Influence course: http://ideo.to/RLx5VL

Storytelling for Influence Instructor and IDEO Design Director Jenn Maer and IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard discussed the tools and mindsets that can help you become a master storyteller, prototype your story, and bring your audience along on an emotional journey. Dive in deeper and learn more from Jenn Maer in our online Storytelling for Influence course: <a href="http://ideo.to/RLx5VL" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://ideo.to/RLx5VL</a>

How to Be a Better Storyteller

David Kelley

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 muscle, the better you get at it. Each time you engage with the process, you end up feeling more capable. As founder of IDEO and the Stanford d.school, David Kelley has been practicing design thinking for nearly 30 years. He’s passionate about using design to help unlock creative confidence in everyone from students to business executives. As instructor of our new online class, Hello Design Thinking,  David brings his years of learning and expertise to this design thinking introduction. Join IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard and IDEO U Co-Managing Director Coe Leta Stafford for a discussion with David on design thinking as a roadmap for routine innovation. An audience Q&amp;A will follow.

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 muscle, the better you get at it. Each time you engage with the process, you end up feeling more capable. As founder of IDEO and the Stanford d.school, David Kelley has been practicing design thinking for nearly 30 years. He’s passionate about using design to help unlock creative confidence in everyone from students to business executives. As instructor of our new online class, Hello Design Thinking, David brings his years of learning and expertise to this design thinking introduction. Join IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard and IDEO U Co-Managing Director Coe Leta Stafford for a discussion with David on design thinking as a roadmap for routine innovation. An audience Q&amp;A will follow.

David Kelley on Design Thinking

Rochael Adranly

Rochael Adranly, IDEO partner and general counsel, has spent her career finding the balance between the rules-based world of law and the ambiguous, non-rules-based world of design. In this Creative Confidence Podcast episode, she shares how to bring out the natural creativity in others and encourage colleagues to be your partners in innovation—instead of your roadblocks.

Bringing out Creativity in Others: Rochael Adranly

Roger Martin

Roger Martin is a bit of a legend in the strategy world. His book Playing to Win, written with former Procter &amp; Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley, is a favorite in business schools. And decades of work consulting with some of the world’s most recognizable companies have cemented his place as one of today’s leading business thinkers. In this conversation, get an inside look at Roger’s approach to business strategy and hear about our newest course, Designing Strategy: https://ideo.to/u3xSQA

Roger Martin is a bit of a legend in the strategy world. His book Playing to Win, written with former Procter &amp; Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley, is a favorite in business schools. And decades of work consulting with some of the world’s most recognizable companies have cemented his place as one of today’s leading business thinkers. In this conversation, get an inside look at Roger’s approach to business strategy and hear about our newest course, Designing Strategy: <a href="https://ideo.to/u3xSQA" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ideo.to/u3xSQA</a>

How to Create Winning Strategies: Roger Martin

Curious about what makes a successful, innovative team, Google led a two-year research project with 280 teams. They found only one distinction between innovative and non-innovative teams—psychological safety.

This is the Way Google & IDEO Foster Creativity

Warren Berger

“If you’re human, you’re creative.” —Warren Berger, Innovation Expert &amp; AuthorInnovation expert and author Warren Berger has spent years studying how questions can transform our business and personal lives and tap into our creative potential. In this episode of our Creative Confidence Series, he shares insights from his new book, The Book of Beautiful Questions, featuring hundreds of big and small questions that harness the magic of inquiry to tackle challenges we all face—at work, in our relationships, and beyond.To learn more about using questions to guide and motivate others, check out our 5-week online course Leading for Creativity, part of our Foundations in Creative Leadership Certificate: https://ideo.to/j3NdeD

“If you’re human, you’re creative.” —Warren Berger, Innovation Expert &amp; Author Innovation expert and author Warren Berger has spent years studying how questions can transform our business and personal lives and tap into our creative potential. In this episode of our Creative Confidence Series, he shares insights from his new book, The Book of Beautiful Questions, featuring hundreds of big and small questions that harness the magic of inquiry to tackle challenges we all face—at work, in our relationships, and beyond. To learn more about using questions to guide and motivate others, check out our 5-week online course Leading for Creativity, part of our Foundations in Creative Leadership Certificate: <a href="https://ideo.to/j3NdeD" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ideo.to/j3NdeD</a>

Tapping into the Power of Questions: Warren Berger

What do you want to change? IDEO Partner Bryan Walker introduces  "change journeys" and takes us through an exercise to understand what type of journey you are on. Bryan shares change examples from Ford, Marriott, the Gates Foundation and more to help illustrate how to go about change.

Change Journeys: What Change Are You Working On?

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 realizing that it’s not just product design that makes a company successful in the market—it’s about the business model, the revenue model, the operations, the strategy, and even the IT. It’s about blending the rigor of traditional business strategies and tools with design, all in the service of meeting a human need.Learn how to apply the skills and mindsets of business design to your next product, service, or business. Join our Designing a Business course opening June 13: http://ideo.to/BQP8sg

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 realizing that it’s not just product design that makes a company successful in the market—it’s about the business model, the revenue model, the operations, the strategy, and even the IT. It’s about blending the rigor of traditional business strategies and tools with design, all in the service of meeting a human need. Learn how to apply the skills and mindsets of business design to your next product, service, or business. Join our Designing a Business course opening June 13: <a href="http://ideo.to/BQP8sg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://ideo.to/BQP8sg</a>

How to Build a Better Business Through Design

Designing for change is about helping leaders transform their organizations’ cultures and businesses in pursuit of innovation, adaptability, and impact. Join IDEO Partner and Managing Director Bryan Walker and IDEO U Managing Director Suzanne Gibbs Howard as they discuss a human-centered approach to change and give a sneak peek into IDEO U's newest course.

How to Create Change in Your Organization

Mike Peng

In this episode of our Creative Confidence Series, IDEO Partner and Managing Director Mike Peng chats with IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard about creative collaboration—the method IDEO teams use to come up with innovative new ideas. Mike gives insight into our new course, Cultivating Creative Collaboration, that teaches you how to guide others through the creative collaboration process. He also shares tips for overcoming common challenges, why this way of working is necessary in today’s world, and how tension can be harnessed to unleash creative ideas.Get more tips and techniques from Mike on guiding collaboration in our new 5-week online course, Cultivating Creative Collaboration, starting May 23rd: https://ideo.to/JzmBTe

In this episode of our Creative Confidence Series, IDEO Partner and Managing Director Mike Peng chats with IDEO U Dean Suzanne Gibbs Howard about creative collaboration—the method IDEO teams use to come up with innovative new ideas. Mike gives insight into our new course, Cultivating Creative Collaboration, that teaches you how to guide others through the creative collaboration process. He also shares tips for overcoming common challenges, why this way of working is necessary in today’s world, and how tension can be harnessed to unleash creative ideas. Get more tips and techniques from Mike on guiding collaboration in our new 5-week online course, Cultivating Creative Collaboration, starting May 23rd: <a href="https://ideo.to/JzmBTe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ideo.to/JzmBTe</a>

Guiding Your Team Through Creative Collaboration: Mike Peng

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 will not only help your team, but you’ll find your work more satisfying, too.Here's the full recap: http://ideo.to/xYVsmT

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 will not only help your team, but you’ll find your work more satisfying, too. Here's the full recap: <a href="http://ideo.to/xYVsmT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://ideo.to/xYVsmT</a>

What’s Your Superpower—and its Shadow Side?

Daniel Coyle

Daniel Coyle chats with IDEO U Managing Director Coe Leta Stafford about his newest book, The Culture Code, three skills that the most successful teams have in common, and how high performing teams react to tension differently. Get tips and techniques for guiding teams through creative collaboration by embracing diverse perspectives and tension in our 5-week online course Cultivating Creative Collaboration: https://ideo.to/faNcXN

Daniel Coyle chats with IDEO U Managing Director Coe Leta Stafford about his newest book, The Culture Code, three skills that the most successful teams have in common, and how high performing teams react to tension differently. Get tips and techniques for guiding teams through creative collaboration by embracing diverse perspectives and tension in our 5-week online course Cultivating Creative Collaboration: <a href="https://ideo.to/faNcXN" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ideo.to/faNcXN</a>

How Great Teams Leverage Tension as a Source for Innovation: Daniel Coyle

Kanyi Maqubela

As a venture capital investor at Collaborative Fund and Kindred Ventures, Kanyi Maqubela has invested in dozens of companies—including Lyft, Kickstarter, Beyond Meat, and Blue Bottle Coffee—and evaluated hundreds more. He seeks out founders and businesses that are not only addressing a market need, but have the potential to reinvent our future. In this episode of our Creative Confidence Podcast, he shares the elements he looks for to signal a strong business idea, an impactful leader, and a collaborative team. Build your leadership abilities in our course Leading for Creativity, and learn how to design prototypes to test and iterate business ideas in Designing a Business: https://ideo.to/XX94SR

As a venture capital investor at Collaborative Fund and Kindred Ventures, Kanyi Maqubela has invested in dozens of companies—including Lyft, Kickstarter, Beyond Meat, and Blue Bottle Coffee—and evaluated hundreds more. He seeks out founders and businesses that are not only addressing a market need, but have the potential to reinvent our future. In this episode of our Creative Confidence Podcast, he shares the elements he looks for to signal a strong business idea, an impactful leader, and a collaborative team. Build your leadership abilities in our course Leading for Creativity, and learn how to design prototypes to test and iterate business ideas in Designing a Business: <a href="https://ideo.to/XX94SR" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ideo.to/XX94SR</a>

Identifying Business Potential: Kanyi Maqubela

Jake Knapp

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 Confidence Podcast, Jake, the author of Make Time and the New York Times bestseller Sprint, shares the methods he has developed to find focus in daily life, opening up the opportunity to have more impact at work and at home. He shares how he started his journey toward productivity and mindfulness, lessons from his experience designing products at Google, and how by focusing on fewer things, you can actually do more as an individual and a team.Download the free Make Time Interactive poster we created with Jake: https://ideo.to/ENpPlm

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 Confidence Podcast, Jake, the author of Make Time and the New York Times bestseller Sprint, shares the methods he has developed to find focus in daily life, opening up the opportunity to have more impact at work and at home. He shares how he started his journey toward productivity and mindfulness, lessons from his experience designing products at Google, and how by focusing on fewer things, you can actually do more as an individual and a team. Download the free Make Time Interactive poster we created with Jake: <a href="https://ideo.to/ENpPlm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ideo.to/ENpPlm</a>

Making Time for Creative Work: Jake Knapp

Joe Gerber

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 vision of the future and a business that can make that vision a reality. Joe shares how the team at CoLab are using design fiction and cross-organizational stakeholder collaboration to uncover meaningful innovation and launch new ventures in the world of emerging technology, the Circular Economy, and more.Whether you work in the field of innovation, you’re an entrepreneur with a startup, or you have an idea for a business that you’re ready to explore, using the principles of design fiction and cross-organizational collaboration can help. Check out our 5-week business design course to go deeper on testing and prototyping different aspects of a new business: https://ideo.to/xRZl6p

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 vision of the future and a business that can make that vision a reality. Joe shares how the team at CoLab are using design fiction and cross-organizational stakeholder collaboration to uncover meaningful innovation and launch new ventures in the world of emerging technology, the Circular Economy, and more. Whether you work in the field of innovation, you’re an entrepreneur with a startup, or you have an idea for a business that you’re ready to explore, using the principles of design fiction and cross-organizational collaboration can help. Check out our 5-week business design course to go deeper on testing and prototyping different aspects of a new business: <a href="https://ideo.to/xRZl6p" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ideo.to/xRZl6p</a>

Bridging the Gap Between the Future and Business Reality: Joe Gerber

Margo Downs

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 in people operations at Stitch Fix, Starbucks, and lululemon athletica—companies well known for their distinctive cultures. We dove into the building blocks of culture, her framework for operationalizing culture at scale, and how to impact culture regardless of your seniority or title.

People and Culture at Scale: Margo Downs

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 Suzanne Gibbs Howard and answers questions from our community on design thinking, creativity, and leadership. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. Listen to this episode on our podcast, and check out their full conversation to hear more of David’s thoughts on the core abilities of the most successful design thinking practitioners. Learn more about building the skills and abilities to deepen your design thinking practice with our Advanced Design Thinking Certificate: https://ideo.to/J3Y8ev

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 Suzanne Gibbs Howard and answers questions from our community on design thinking, creativity, and leadership. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. Listen to this episode on our podcast, and check out their full conversation to hear more of David’s thoughts on the core abilities of the most successful design thinking practitioners. Learn more about building the skills and abilities to deepen your design thinking practice with our Advanced Design Thinking Certificate: <a href="https://ideo.to/J3Y8ev" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ideo.to/J3Y8ev</a>

Office Hours: Leadership Lessons with David Kelley

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 delving into the void—aka darker more challenging topics like death and aging.

Advice from IDEO’s Chief Creative Officer on Inspiring Creative Work

In this episode of our Creative Confidence Series, Jane Fulton Suri, IDEO Partner Emeritus and Executive Design Director, and Dean of IDEO U Suzanne Gibbs Howard reflect on the evolution of empathy in design during Jane’s 30-year career at IDEO and why bringing curiosity into your work takes courage. To learn more about human-centered design and methods for surfacing insights, check out Jane’s online course Insights for Innovation: https://ideo.to/drQaya

In this episode of our Creative Confidence Series, Jane Fulton Suri, IDEO Partner Emeritus and Executive Design Director, and Dean of IDEO U Suzanne Gibbs Howard reflect on the evolution of empathy in design during Jane’s 30-year career at IDEO and why bringing curiosity into your work takes courage. To learn more about human-centered design and methods for surfacing insights, check out Jane’s online course Insights for Innovation: <a href="https://ideo.to/drQaya" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ideo.to/drQaya</a>

The Art of the Insight: Learnings from 30 Years of Curiosity and Empathy

Didier Elzinga

Didier Elizinga, CEO and Founder of culture analytics platform Culture Amp, joined us on the Creative Confidence Series to talk about applying design thinking mindsets to culture and people operations, turning culture insights into actions, and making change happen from wherever you sit. Learn more about inspiring change in an organization, community, or network through movements, not mandates in our online course Designing for Change: https://ideo.to/OiXZ1q

Didier Elizinga, CEO and Founder of culture analytics platform Culture Amp, joined us on the Creative Confidence Series to talk about applying design thinking mindsets to culture and people operations, turning culture insights into actions, and making change happen from wherever you sit. Learn more about inspiring change in an organization, community, or network through movements, not mandates in our online course Designing for Change: <a href="https://ideo.to/OiXZ1q" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ideo.to/OiXZ1q</a>

Crafting Culture by Turning Insights into Actions: Didier Elzinga

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