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 IDE ...
We're on a mission to help creative people of all kinds find deeper confidence and show up as the most vibrant and powerful versions of ourselves.
Questioning the motive behind our programming and recoding to hack our habits for maximun potential.
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/inspirationBởi IDEO U
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Designing Memorable Experiences: Kai Frazier
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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/kaiBởi IDEO U
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Creative Confidence Project Episode 1: Welcome to CCP!
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What is confidence? And why is it so hard for creative people? Welcome to the Creative Confidence Project Podcast - where we explore topics of confidence, creativity, and how creative people can show up as the biggest, most vibrant versions of ourselves.Bởi Bonnie Fanning
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/blogBởi IDEO U
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Motivation at Work: Dan Ariely and Wardah Malik
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Lessons on different types of motivators, what behavioral science can teach us about motivation, and the importance of intrinsic motivators in the workplace.View the full recap at https://ideo.in/beworksBởi IDEO U
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Designing for Sensitive Topics: Kerry O’Connor
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Tips on designing for uncomfortable conversation topics like sex, mental health, personal finance, and addiction from women’s health entrepreneur Kerry O’Connor.View the full recap at https://ideo.in/kerryBởi IDEO U
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Inclusive Design Mindsets: Nusrat Ahmed & Coe Leta Stafford
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IDEO U’s Nusrat Ahmed and Coe Leta Stafford share 4 inclusive design mindsets and why they’re an important part of any designer’s toolkit. View the full recap at https://www.ideou.com/blogs/inspiration/how-to-get-started-with-inclusive-designBởi IDEO U
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Activating Strategy Online Course: Enroll by November 17
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Strategy is often portrayed as a thinking exercise—a set of decisions and plans made by a small group. But strategy is brought to life by the people in every part of an organization every day. Engaging the people critical to both creating and activating your strategy is an element missing from most strategy approaches.In our new course, Activating …
Jennifer Riel, IDEO’s Global Director of Strategy, shares the 7 common strategy myths and how to make your strategy more actionable.View the full recap at https://ideo.in/jenniferBởi IDEO U
In times of turbulence, uncertainty or stress, it can be difficult to tap into the creativity needed to do your best work. SYPartners and kyu Collective Founder Keith Yamashita says those are the times it’s most impactful to have a reservoir of inspiration to pull from. In this conversation with Keith, we talk about rituals and tactics you can try …
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How to Create Workplace Rituals: Erica Keswin
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Erica Keswin, author of Rituals Roadmap, shares the business case for rituals in the workplace and the key elements behind a ritual.View the full recap at https://ideo.in/ericaBởi IDEO U
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Web3 Mindsets For Business Leaders: Tara Tan
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Tara Tan, General Partner and Investor at IDEO Creative Capital, joined us to share three themes she’s seeing emerge in the world of web3 and how to apply those ideas to your business, whether you’re in the digital space or not. View the full recap at https://ideo.in/taratanBởi IDEO U
You’ve got tons of compelling data to prove out your strategic choices. Now, the challenge is how to go from boring charts and numbers to a story that will move your stakeholders and build alignment around a way forward. IDEO Partner and Executive Director Justin Massa shares how the combination of data and storytelling can overcome strategic roadb…
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Well Said: Value Outcome More Than Output
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IDEO Senior Portfolio Director Katie Soven shares why orienting your team around outcomes is more effective than checking off a list of tasks. This episode revisits one of our favorite moments on the Creative Confidence Podcast around the theme of enabling leaders to bring out the best in their team. Listen to the full episode with Katie and read a…
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Well Said: How to Scale by Trusting Your Team
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Wonderschool CEO and Co-founder Chris Bennett talks about giving his team the freedom and support to approach problems in their own way. This episode revisits one of our favorite moments on the Creative Confidence Podcast around the theme of enabling leaders to bring out the best in their team. Listen to the full episode with Chris and read a recap…
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Well Said: Remove Constraints to Boost Team Creativity
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Michelle Lee, a managing director leading IDEO’s Design for Play team, tells us how to create a magic circle and why removing constraints is so powerful in helping your team come up with wild new ideas. This episode revisits one of our favorite moments on the Creative Confidence Podcast around the theme of enabling leaders to bring out the best in …
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Well Said: Nurture Your Team and Give Them Meaningful Work
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Serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist Brit Morin shares advice for inspiring a team by nurturing individual needs, creating psychological safety, and giving people meaningful work. This episode revisits one of our favorite moments on the Creative Confidence Podcast around the theme of enabling leaders to bring out the best in their team. Liste…
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Well Said: Tap Into Intuition by Pushing the Pace
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IDEO Senior Portfolio Director Dwayne Edwards shares an activity leaders can try to encourage their team to tap into the power of intuition. This episode revisits one of our favorite moments on the Creative Confidence Podcast around the theme of enabling leaders to bring out the best in their team. Listen to the full episode with Dwayne and read a …
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Well Said: How Inclusive Leaders Give Attribution
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Harvard Business School Professor Frances Frei and IDEO Senior Design Director Lauren Collins share advice for inclusive leadership, encouraging participation, and giving attribution. This episode revisits one of our favorite moments on the Creative Confidence Podcast around the theme of enabling leaders to bring out the best in their team. Listen …
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Envisioning the Future: Steve Schwall & Jan Rod
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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.View the full recap at ideo.in/steve-and-janBởi IDEO U
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Managing Difficult Emotions: Liz and Mollie
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Why it's good for business to bring emotions into the workplace, and skills and mindsets to manage our most difficult emotions.View the full recap at ideo.in/lizandmollieBởi IDEO U
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Sustainability and Business: Maria Fujihara & Gabe Kleinman
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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.View the full recap at https://ideo.in/maria-and-gabe.Bởi IDEO U
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Human-Centered Systems Thinking Online Course: Starts April 14
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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…
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Facilitative Leadership: Dabney Hailey
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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.…
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How to Think in Systems: Deirdre Cerminaro
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Human-centered systems thinking is an approach to problem solving that helps you see the interconnectedness of things while also staying grounded in the needs of your stakeholders. Deirdre Cerminaro, IDEO Executive Design Director and IDEO U instructor, shares IDEO’s approach to systems thinking. Get tools, mindsets and examples you can apply to yo…
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Generalist vs. Specialist: David Epstein
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Learn how being a generalist can lead to career success with David Epstein, New York Times bestselling author of Range.View the full recap at ideou.com/blog.Bởi IDEO U
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A Framework for Impactful Presentations: Caricia Catalani
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Learn how to incorporate improv techniques into your presentations for greater impact and engagement in this conversation with Caricia Catalani, Senior Design Director at Pear Therapeutics.View the full recap at ideou.com/blog.Bởi IDEO U
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Finding Creative Inspiration: Brandon Viney
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Google Group Creative Director Brandon Viney shares how to use what inspires you to find your creative identity.View the full recap at ideou.com/blog.Bởi IDEO U
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Well Said: Believe in Your Positive Delusion
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Chris Wilson, social entrepreneur and author of The Master Plan, shares the importance of believing yourself.This clip revisits one of our favorite moments of 2021 on the Creative Confidence Podcast. Listen to the full episode with Chris and read a recap of the conversation on the IDEO U blog: https://ideo.in/well-said-chris…
Designing Strategy instructor and best-selling author Roger Martin explains how your strategic choices shape where your organization is now and where you'll end up down the road.This clip revisits one of our favorite moments of 2021 on the Creative Confidence Podcast. Listen to the full episode with Roger and read a recap of the conversation on the…
Sacha Connor, founder and CEO of consultancy Virtual Work Insider, argues that snacks are not culture. She says values and behaviors shape culture, especially in a remote world.This clip revisits one of our favorite moments of 2021 on the Creative Confidence Podcast. Listen to the full episode with Sacha and read a recap of the conversation on the …
Ingrid Fetell Lee, author of The Aesthetics of Joy, helps us connect with physical feelings of joy in this 2-minute exercise. This clip revisits one of our favorite moments of 2021 on the Creative Confidence Podcast. Listen to the full episode with Ingrid and read a recap of the conversation on the IDEO U blog: https://ideo.in/well-said-ingrid…
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Well Said: It's OK to Be On a Winding Path
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Michelle Lee, a managing director in IDEO's Play Lab, embraces how mixed influences led her down a winding, joyful career path.This clip revisits one of our favorite moments of 2021 on the Creative Confidence Podcast. Listen to the full episode with Michelle and read a recap of the conversation on the IDEO U blog: https://ideo.in/well-said-michelle…
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Lead by Empowering Others: Lauren Collins & Frances Frei
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In this episode, IDEO’s Lauren Collins and Harvard Business School Professor Frances Frei discuss how to level up your leadership practice by honing the skills and mindsets needed to empower your team and organization. View the full recap at https://ideo.in/lauren-and-francesBởi IDEO U
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Scaling Affordable Child Care: Chris Bennett
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How did Wonderschool CEO and Co-founder Chris Bennett go from a spark of an idea to a venture-backed business? In this episode, Chris takes us inside his human-centered process for building a business. Chris shares about building empathy with his customers, prototyping the business model, finding the right sales channels, guiding a team, and stayin…
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Mentor Moment: How do I onboard new team members to encourage collaboration?
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Mentor Moment is a series where we help a listener with a work challenge. In this episode, Heather Currier Hunt, IDEO’s executive talent director and global head of learning and development, gives Kathleen some ideas for ways she can onboard several new team members and set the stage for a collaborative and successful team dynamic. Learn more about…
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Frameworks for Organizational Change: Joe Brown
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Joe Brown, Executive Director at IDEO, explains how to use three different frameworks to approach change in your organization.Bởi IDEO U
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Maintaining Momentum with Mode Shifts: Katie Soven
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In order to maintain momentum and reach their goals, teams need to shift gears several times throughout a project. Project leaders are responsible for sensing the team’s need to shift and guiding them through these moments. Katie Soven, senior portfolio director at IDEO, shares how to maintain team momentum through complexity by shifting modes, the…
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Getting Started with Strategic Planning: Roger Martin
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If you’re wondering where to start with strategic planning, pause for a minute before getting into tactical ideas or writing a hundred-page strategic plan of action. Focus on identifying your strategic problem first. Strategy advisor Roger Martin shares common mistakes people make in the early stages of strategic planning and how to avoid them, way…
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Human-Centered Entrepreneurship: Brit Morin
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With 10 years of experience as an entrepreneur and CEO, Brit Morin has learned a lot about what it takes to get an idea off the ground and how to inspire and lead a team. In this episode, she shares stories from the early days of her startup Selfmade, lessons on human-centered leadership, ways women are uniquely suited to excel as entrepreneurs, an…
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Mentor Moment: Building Support for Innovation Work, with Stuart Getty
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Mentor Moment is a new mini series where we help a listener with a work challenge. In this episode, IDEO Senior Design Lead Stuart Getty gives caller Heidi a few ideas for ways she can get her team and company on board and excited about innovation work. Learn more about Stuart at linkedin.com/in/stuart-getty. Are you struggling with a work challeng…
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Storytelling for Entrepreneurs: Tom Kelley
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IDEO’s Tom Kelley shares his storytelling tips and the 4 stories entrepreneurs need to know.Bởi IDEO U
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Play at Work: Brendan Boyle & Michelle Lee
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IDEO’s Michelle Lee and Brendan Boyle share small ways to experiment with play at work and how it helps surface new ideas.Bởi IDEO U
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The Innovation Long Game: Hernán Carranza
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Peruvian conglomerate Intercorp has been working toward the same mission for more than 25 years: To help Peru become one of the best places in Latin America to raise a family. Hear how Chief Innovation Officer Hernán Carranza is helping the company make progress toward that goal, and learn ways creative leaders can act now to have long-term impact.…
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Crafting a Creative Career: Donald Burlock
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How do you decide which opportunities to pursue in your career—and what values can guide you along the way? Designer and author Donald Burlock, Jr. shares the creative frameworks that he turned to at each stage of his career, and how to use them in your own journey.Bởi IDEO U
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Leading Complex Projects Online Course: Launches July 8
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In our 5-week online course, Leading Complex Projects, you’ll learn how to:—Surface intuition to make decisions when there’s too much or too little information.—Deliver stronger outcomes by clearly defining the purpose for the work.—Design moments of alignment.Learn more here: http://ideo.in/complexprojects…
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Navigate Complexity with Intuition: Dwayne Edwards
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The more complex the project, the more we need to make space for intuition. Dwayne Edwards, Senior Portfolio Director at IDEO, shares tools and techniques to build your intuition and guide others through complex projects.View the full recap at ideou.com/blog.Bởi IDEO U
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Experience Design: Jenny Gottstein & Olivia Vagelos
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Jenny Gottstein & Olivia Vagelos, experiential designers at IDEO, share juicy details and stories that show how just about any experience can be made better with a bit of intentional design.Bởi IDEO U
Sal Khan reflects on the past, present, and future of Khan Academy, and shares his vision for the evolution of education. If you hope to have greater impact in the world or you’re working up the courage to take a chance on a business idea, look to Sal’s journey for inspiration. View the full recap at ideou.com/blog.…
There’s good reason—and plenty of scientific evidence—to suggest we prioritize seeking moments of joy. Designer and author Ingrid Fetell Lee shares why joy is important during challenging times, how it improves our performance and capacity for creativity, universal elements that make up the aesthetics of joy, and how to overcome common barriers to …