47- Andy Budd - The current state of design leadership

03/10/20 • 60 min

UX Designer and CEO of Clearleft, Andy Budd curates the Leading Design and UX London conferences and helped set-up The Brighton Digital Festival. Andy is a regular speaker at international conferences like SXSW, An Event Apart and The Next Web.

In this episode, we spoke about:

the biggest learnings from the last Leading Design conference,
why and how designers should say no to their managers,
and the current state of design education.

In this episode, we spoke about:

the biggest learnings from the last Leading Design conference,
why and how designers should say no to their managers,
and the current state of design education.

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46- Maija Itkonen - A purpose-driven startup is changing our perception of meat

Maija Itkonen is an industrial designer, successful entrepreneur, innovator, and brand lover. In 2015 she co-founded Gold&Green Foods, the company behind the phenomenal success story of the “perfect protein food” platform and its first product Pulled Oats. Pulled Oats is a new kind of meat alternative based on the Nordic superfood oats, built around the team’s unique scientific knowledge and design thinking under Maija’s leadership.

With Maija, we talked about:

her rocky path from a design school to starting companies,
how and why Gold&Green became a nation-wide sensation in Finland,
and what it means to start and run a purpose-driven startup.

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48- Rita Gunther McGrath - The end of competitive advantag

Rita Gunther McGrath is a world-renowned thought leader and a professor at Columbia Business School. She has received the #1 achievement award for strategy from the prestigious Thinkers50 and has been consistently named one of the world’s top ten management thinkers in its bi-annual ranking.

She wrote Discovery-Driven Growth and The End of Competitive Advantage, which are widely used in the business design community.

In this podcast we talked about: