BETTER FUTURE Archive 2020-2022

Hosted by Mark Bergin - Founder at Design Exec Club and DRIVENxDESIGN

Panelists:

Simon Hamilton - Founder at Design Career Consulting

Philip Johnston - Programme Director at Locate East Sussex

William Knight - Director at The Renew Consultancy

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In this episode of the Better Future SPOTLIGHT, Mark sits down with the legendary Dan Formosa. A true multidisciplinarian, Dan wears an astonishing amount of hats and is known as a designer, a consultant, an educator, an author, an illustrator, a Youtube video series host, a champion for gender equity, and perhaps most importantly, a question asker.

In this conversation, Mark and Dan speak about the need for design evolution, choosing exploration over validation, understanding the work behind usability, 'soul' design, and the magic of asking questions.

It is a great privilege to scratch the surface of a phenomenal design mind like Dan's, and we are excited to share some of his experience, knowledge, and vision for a better future in this episode.

Hosted by Mark Bergin - Founder of the Design Exec Club

Guests:

Amber Bonney - Founder and Managing Director at The Edison Agency / President at the Creative Women's Circle

Andrew Hoyne - Founder & Principal at Hoyne

David Montgomery - Founder and Director at Scaffad

Dylan Brady - Conductor (Owner) at Decibel Architecture

Julie Ockerby - CEO, Creative Director & Principal at Meli Studio Australia

Lorena Gaxiola - Director at Lorena Gaxiola Design

Maria Scott - Owner at Eye 2 Connect / Director at the Michael Hughes Foundation & Peer Support Australia

Richard Henderson - Founder & CEO at R-Co Brand

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In this episode of the Better Future SPOTLIGHT, our Founder Mark Bergin sits down with the sensational Amber Bonney - Founder and Managing Director at The Edison Agency and President of The Creative Women's Circle. 

Together they discuss creating a vision beyond the ego, taking the time to establish a framework for your values, reimagining the language of ‘good design’, helping the next generation believe and strive for a better future, pursuing uncomfortable conversations, championing the power of mentoring and more.

Amber is steadfast in her values and applies them to both her personal and professional work in a way that is accelerating us all into a better future. There is a lot to learn from design leaders like Amber.

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Hosted by Mark Bergin - Founder of DRIVENxDESIGN / The Design Exec Club

Guests:

Richard Henderson - Founder & CEO at R-Co Brand

Adrian Battisby - Partner at LW Hong Kong

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In this episode of the Better Future SPOTLIGHT, our Founder Mark sits down with Gurvinder Khurana and Nigel Tresise of align interior architecture & design.

It's a conversation with no safety net, where Gurvinder, Nigel and Mark talk about finding confidence in being uncomfortable, the creative power of vulnerability, establishing leeway for improvisation in our work, 'better' over 'beauty', the function of age to generate wisdom, and much more.

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Hosted by Mark Bergin - Founder at Design Exec Club & DRIVENxDESIGN

Guests:

Dan Formosa - Designer at Dan Formosa! / Co-founder at 4B

Ronnie Peters - Founder and CEO at 360 Design / Creative Director at Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc.

Julie Ockerby - CEO, Creative Director & Principal at Meli Studio Australia

Jon Winebrenner - President & Founder at Hurdler Studios / Creative Director at Sonn Technology

Harry West - Professor of Practice at Columbia University / Principal at Invisible Design

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Like most of us, life has changed a lot in the past 18 months for McKinsey Design leader Rod Farmer. In this episode of the Better Future SPOTLIGHT, Rod joins Mark in a thoughtful conversation about life, design, adapting, vision, storytelling, family, service and more. Rod is calm, intelligent and considerate and possesses a phenomenal ability to look at the bigger picture. That is what a better future is all about.  

Hosted by Mark Bergin - Founder at Design Exec Club & DRIVENxDESIGN

Guests:

William Knight - Director at The Renew Consultancy / Co-founder at Design Dialogue / European Associate at DRIVENxDESIGN

Loïc Sattler - Experience Design Director, Germany at Futurice

David Constantine - Founder & Director at Motivation Charitable Trust at IBM

Katy Ghahremani - Partner at Make Architects

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In this episode of the Better Future SPOTLIGHT, our Founder Mark Bergin catches up with Michael Tam - Global Design Director at IBM iX. Michael is equal parts generous, humble, and brilliant and he and Mark have a future-oriented conversation that spans embracing change, maintaining relevance, the beauty of constraints, the importance of action, utilising emotion, and much more. Michael is innovation personified, and it is a great joy to have him share his insights and musings on design and the world beyond.

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