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Female leadership is a subject that has been highly-discussed for some time. And the facts out there clearly state we are losing pace. There’s a lot of work still to be done. Just as there’s work to be done to address a lack of diversity, inclusivity, and equity in organisations and businesses.
One organization bringing the public and private sector together, and giving female leaders a voice, is the Nobel Peace Center. Oslo PAX, the beginnings of a movement from the Peace Center - featuring Nobel Laureates, changemakers, and activists as guests - highlights the need for action when it comes to diversity and gender inclusion in peace and war.
So, this episode is all about Diversity, plus Leadership and Sustainability, seen through the lens of the Nobel Peace Prize and Nobel Prize-winners.
Joining us to share her take on them is Kjersti Fløgstad, CEO of the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway. Kjersti has led a fascinating career spanning corporate and social sectors. She’s been in leadership positions since she was 30, a Director for one of Norway’s banks at 33, and the Secretary-General of UNICEF Norway for ten years.
In this episode, you’ll hear how you as a business can gain from, and speed up, the process of diversity and sustainability. You’ll hear reflections on the qualities that make a good leader – based on experience, recognizing your own bias, and the barriers that still exist. And you can expect honest discussion around the experience of being a woman in a leadership role today and why it’s important that businesses and organisations come together.
If you would like to learn more about the Nobel Peace Center and Oslo PAX visit their website: www.nobelpeacecenter.org/en/news/diversity-matters-gender-and-inclusion-in-peace-and-war
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With thanks to Ingvill Bryn Rambøl/Nobel Peace Center

YELLO meets Los Angeles-based future-thinker, Tatiana Toutikian, to dive into the world of Speculative Design - sometimes called Critical Design.
Tatiana is working right at the intersection of design, business, social science, and technology - helping businesses, the public sector, and nonprofits get a bird’s eye view on the whole system surrounding their service. In this episode, Tatiana will talk about the need for following societal and technological trends, and weak signals, and how her career so far has shaped her own experiences in the field. You can expect to hear about:
- How you anticipate and plan for future products, services, and experiences
- How this area of design help businesses not only grow but constantly rethink where they’re at
- And what the purpose of doing speculative and critical design is, in the first place.
Leading the conversation with Tatiana is Katja Forbes, Managing Director of our Australia and New Zealand studios, and board member at IxDA (that’s the Interaction Design Association if you don’t know). In fact, IxDA is where Tatiana and Katja first met.
We hope you enjoy it!
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Hello. This episode is a short and sweet one. In the next 4 minutes, you will hear about the kind of positive impact by design that we stand for, what topics we will dive into in this podcast series, and what to expect in future episodes. Essentially, it’s all about why we created a podcast in the first place, and to save you having to hear it multiple times in every episode.
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On the face of it, the use of data, and the meaning it can bring to businesses, is a complex topic to dig into. So, join us as we hear from Richard George, Refinitiv’s Global head of digital and account-based marketing ( www.refinitiv.com ). He’s worked in the digital and data-led field with retailer Marks and Spencer, telecommunications with O2 and Eircom, and financial services with Thomsen Reuters. In this episode, we’ll explore the importance of financial and business data in running a company and how that can have a positive effect on consumers, businesses, and the planet. We’ll take a closer look at:
- How critical data is for decision making and how it can be applied to that process
- Digital marketing and how it’s changed over the past few years
- Best practices for successful data-driven companies
It’s fair to say, applying data in ways that are meaningful to society is at the center of Richard’s work, and he’s constantly on the look-out for opportunities to create a positive impact.
Leading the conversation is Strategic Design Director Guro Røberg, based out of our Oslo studio.
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Workplaces need fixing. That's the view of gender equality and organisational culture advocate Michelle King... and she has decades of her own research to back it up. As the founder of Equality Forward and with current and former roles as Senior Advisor to the UN Foundation’s Girl Up Campaign, Director of Inclusion at Netflix, and Head of UN Women’s Global Innovation Coalition for Change, Michelle works with leaders to build workplace cultures that thrive.
In this episode of Designit’s podcast, YELLO, you’ll discover the current state of equality from Michelle’s point of view. You’ll also hear how you can become a leader in a community of like-minded people, what leadership based on diversity and equality should look like, and what is holding leaders back. With plenty of actions you can take yourself.
Find out more about Michelle at www.michellepking.com and the organisation she co-founded, equalityforward.com - if that wasn’t enough, you can listen in to her brilliant podcast, The Fix, on all your favourite podcast places.
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