Hustle: Strengthen Your Team by Focusing on the Individual (Braden Kowitz, Range)

09/14/20 • 49 min

Braden Kowitz is a former design partner at Google Ventures, where he had the opportunity to work with startups like ClassPass, Gusto, Slack, Medium, Flatiron Health, TuneIn, BlueBottle Coffee, 23andMe, One Medical Group, HubSpot, RetailMeNot, Nest and more. He is the co-author of NY Times Best Seller, Sprint, and the co-founder of Range, a tool that keeps teams connected and productive. We're extremely grateful to Braden for sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience with us. Get your notepads out for this one!

We cover:

Some of the differences in Google design from when he entered and left
How he got into Google Ventures and why
His experience watching the explosion of the Design Sprint
What Range does and who it serves
The agency challenge of working with multiple cultures
Working the way clients want to work during COVID-19
Testing and validating new work methodologies
Vulnerability and connection for teams
The challenge of jumping responsibilities as a business owner
Personal manuals
More!

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We cover:

Some of the differences in Google design from when he entered and left
How he got into Google Ventures and why
His experience watching the explosion of the Design Sprint
What Range does and who it serves
The agency challenge of working with multiple cultures
Working the way clients want to work during COVID-19
Testing and validating new work methodologies
Vulnerability and connection for teams
The challenge of jumping responsibilities as a business owner
Personal manuals
More!

Visit the Funsize website
Subscribe to The Funsize Digest

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Hustle: Adaptability in the World of Workshop Facilitation (Douglas Ferguson, Voltage Control)

Douglas Ferguson is an entrepreneur and human-centered technologist with over 20 years of experience. He is the founder and president of Voltage Control, an Austin-based facilitation agency that specializes in helping teams work better together through participatory decision making and design inspired facilitation techniques. He has helped transform teams from U.S. SOCOM, the Air Force, Adobe, Dropbox, Fidelity, Vrbo, Liberty Mutual, Humana, and SAIC. We really appreciated hearing Douglas's thoughts on facilitation in the era of COVID and are excited to see what's next for Voltage Control.

We cover:

Starting out in development
How his career in facilitation has changed
Building a facilitation community
Adaptability vs Dogma
Prescribing different workshops
Knowing when it's time for a design sprint
What happens after a design sprint
The differences in remote sprints
A lot more!

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Hustle: Designing Community and Culture on a Global Scale (Margaret Lee, Google)

Margaret Lee is the Director of UX Community & Culture at Google. A self-described "reluctant leader," she heads up programs that unite departments across the company and create Google career opportunities for those who might not typically have access. Margaret created this role for herself a few years ago when she noticed there was an opportunity to put more intention behind efforts of inclusion and community within Google. After a manger's encouragement, she took a leap of faith and began sharing her passions on-stage. She hasn't looked back since.

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