Part 2: Honest, Realistic, and Optimistic Leadership Advice from Friends of IDEO

Part 2: Honest, Realistic, and Optimistic Leadership Advice from Friends of IDEO

The creative leadership advice continues. In Part 2, creative leaders including IDEO partners, alumni, and IDEO U instructors share hard-won lessons on relationships, reflection, and staying human as we move into 2026. Host Mina Seetharaman and IDEO Partner Ilya Prokopoff share reactions and builds on each leader's advice.


Many of the leaders featured on this episode have been guests on the podcast. Find links to their episodes at ideou.com/blogs/inspiration.


Guests on this episode:


Grace Hwang — Design Leader; Former IDEO Associate Partner; Co-Founder, Upturn Health


Michelle Lee — Partner and Executive Managing Director, IDEO; IDEO U Instructor: Creative Thinking for Complex Problem Solving


Sara Kalick — Founder, The Possible: IDEO U Instructor: From Superpowers to Great Teams


Jenn Maer — Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer, Knitted; IDEO U Instructor: Storytelling for Influence


Jennifer Riel — Adjunct Professor, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto; Former Head of Global Strategy, IDEO; IDEO U Instructor: Designing Strategy & Activating Strategy


Susie Wise — Designer, Design for Emergence; Author, Design for Belonging


Takashi Wickes — Founding Designer, Open Studio; IDEO U Instructor: Prototyping for AI


YC Sun — Senior Design Director, Healthcare and Wellbeing, IDEO


Dabney Hailey — Founder and Principal, Hailey Group; Lecturer, MIT Sloan


Amy Bonsall — Founder, Light Actions at Collective; IDEO U Instructor: Designing a Business


Frederik Pferdt — Former Chief Innovation Evangelist, Google; author of What’s Next is Now

__________


Get episode recaps and register for free live podcast events at ideou.com/podcast.

Build your creative problem-solving skills with IDEO U's online courses in human-centered design, AI, leadership, and more at ideou.com.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episoder(173)

How to Use AI For More Human-Centered Research: Hannah Rosenfeld

How to Use AI For More Human-Centered Research: Hannah Rosenfeld

AI is changing what it means to be a researcher. But most teams are only using it one way—to go faster. In this episode, Hannah Rosenfeld, Executive Design Researcher at IDEO, shares a framework for u...

29 Apr 51min

6 Patterns for Building Organizational Agility: Clay Parker Jones

6 Patterns for Building Organizational Agility: Clay Parker Jones

Most organizations don’t fail because their ideas are wrong. They fail because the systems underneath those ideas aren’t designed to support them. In this episode, Mina Seetharaman speaks with Clay Pa...

15 Apr 1h 2min

How Great Teams Leverage Tension as a Source of Innovation: Daniel Coyle (Replay)

How Great Teams Leverage Tension as a Source of Innovation: Daniel Coyle (Replay)

Tension on your team isn’t always a problem to solve. In fact, it’s often a signal you’re doing meaningful work. In this replay episode, bestselling author Daniel Coyle (The Culture Code) shares how t...

1 Apr 42min

What Gets In the Way of Trust on Teams: Q&A with Ben Swire

What Gets In the Way of Trust on Teams: Q&A with Ben Swire

There are many hidden barriers to building trust on teams, and sometimes we don’t see them until something breaks down.In this episode of the Creative Confidence Podcast, Mina Seetharaman sits down ag...

20 Mar 44min

Building Risk-Taking Teams: Ben Swire

Building Risk-Taking Teams: Ben Swire

Team building often feels like a necessary evil. Leaders know it matters, but too often it feels awkward, forced, or disconnected from real work.In this episode of the Creative Confidence Podcast, Min...

5 Mar 57min

Playful Thinking Under Pressure: Q&A with Cas Holman & Michelle Lee

Playful Thinking Under Pressure: Q&A with Cas Holman & Michelle Lee

How do leaders apply playful thinking at work when time is short and the stakes are high?In this Q&A episode of the Creative Confidence Podcast, host Mina Seetharaman is joined by play designer and au...

18 Feb 39min

How a Playful Mindset Leads to Better Work: Cas Holman & Michelle Lee

How a Playful Mindset Leads to Better Work: Cas Holman & Michelle Lee

Play isn’t the opposite of serious work. Iit’s a leadership mindset that helps teams stay curious, creative, and effective under pressure.In this episode of the Creative Confidence Podcast, host Mina ...

4 Feb 50min

Leadership Philosophies in Practice & Building Creative Teams: Q&A with Mike Peng

Leadership Philosophies in Practice & Building Creative Teams: Q&A with Mike Peng

IDEO CEO Mike Peng returns to the Creative Confidence Podcast to answer questions from listeners about modern creative leadership. Building on his previous episode, Mike goes deeper on how to lead cre...

21 Jan 44min

Populært innen Business og økonomi

stopp-verden
lydartikler-fra-aftenposten
dine-penger-pengeradet
e24-podden
rss-penger-polser-og-politikk
rss-borsmorgen-okonominyhetene
rss-pa-konto
pengesnakk
pengepodden-2
utbytte
finansredaksjonen
morgenkaffen-med-finansavisen
liberal-halvtime
livet-pa-veien-med-jan-erik-larssen
tid-er-penger-en-podcast-med-peter-warren
stormkast-med-valebrokk-stordalen
rss-sunn-okonomi
rss-skravla-gar
rss-markedspuls-2
lederpodden