
116 episodes

Creative Confidence Podcast IDEO U
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4.6 • 103 Ratings
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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.
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Envisioning the Future: Steve Schwall & Jan Rod
IDEO’s Steve Schwall and Jan Rod share stories of projects in the transportation and mobility world, techniques they rely on to create future-forward products and experiences, and how low-fidelity prototyping unlocks new ideas in highly complex industries.
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Managing Difficult Emotions: Liz and Mollie
Why it's good for business to bring emotions into the workplace, and skills and mindsets to manage our most difficult emotions.
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Sustainability and Business: Maria Fujihara & Gabe Kleinman
Learn what businesses can do to address climate change with Maria Fujihara, Founder & CEO of SINAI Technologies, and Gabe Kleinman, Head of Portfolio Services at Obvious Ventures.
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How to Use Sprints: Isabela Sa Glaister
Learn how to use sprints to work smart and upskill with Isabela Sa Glaister, Senior Director of Product Design at IDEO U.
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Human-Centered Systems Thinking Online Course: Starts April 14
In our 5-week online course, Human-Centered Systems Thinking, you’ll:
- Gain techniques for mapping complex systems and identifying the root causes of a problem.
- Establish a shared view of the system and reframe problems from different perspectives to uncover new solutions.
- Find the right problems to solve and pick the best solutions to experiment with.
- Deepen your understanding of your organizational systems by taking an iterative approach to testing solutions and gaining insights.
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Facilitative Leadership: Dabney Hailey
We talked with Dabney Hailey, founder and principal of Hailey Group, about the Visual Thinking Strategies (or VTS) method, why it works, how to bring elements of it into your daily practice, and why leaders should shift to the facilitative leadership style this method teaches.
Read the recap at ideo.in/dabney.
Customer Reviews
Favorite podcast on creativity!
The podcast provides great content bridging the framework of design thinking from IDEO and real business applications from entrepreneurs and innovators from all over the world. It has changed my way of thinking around business building. It’s so much rewarding to learn about creativity and value adding for communities and society, meanwhile building a great business out of it. Recommend everyone who’s aspired to create a business to listen!
practical tips for work
On several of these episodes I find myself taking notes and learning things to try out at work.
Also like how they often answer questions about how to advance new ideas/change things up.
I love discovering new ideas here
I appreciate the variety of episodes, the super practical takeaways, and Suzanne and Coe Leta’s sincere humility - it’s obvious that they only bring on guests that are authentic and truly care about being a positive force in this world.