In this episode, we meet Lien Chu-Young, founder of PathPoints and a leadership coach who designs reflective experiences that help people navigate life’s turning points with clarity, courage, and purpose.

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In this episode, we meet David Ko — Founder of Humantyze, a Hong Kong–based leadership advisory helping senior executives across Asia lead with clarity in the AI era, drawing on more than two decades guiding regional leaders through crisis, communications, and transformation.

00:00 Why This Conversation Matters01:44 Meet David and Humantyze03:27 Leaders Quiet AI Anxiety06:06 Beyond Cost Cutting With AI12:51 Power Shift Asking Questions15:09 Future Work Human Agent Teams18:03 Creators Entrepreneurship and Distribution25:56 Inspire | Challenge | Disruptweb | Creativeldrs.comIn | Gianluca Cinquepalmi

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Books

The Art of Creative Leadership

Business Beyond Design

Playbooks

Play: Time Bending → Go from Anxiety to Control. Stop Reacting. Start Owning Your Schedule. Reclaim 10–20% of your week and protect deep creative work.

Play: Effective Decisions → De-risk Decisions. Build Confidence. Cut through complexity and move from hesitation to action.

Play: Messy Problems → Turn Ideas in Competitive Advantage. Reframe challenges and spark ideas that drive innovation.

Play: Toxic Managers → Manage Better. Stop Alienating. Start Empowering. No one Plans to be toxic. Until they are.

Play: Agentic Leadership → Lead Confidently. Build a super Hybrid Future Team. Everyone is talking about AI. Almost nobody is talking about who should lead it.

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In this episode, we meet Marisa Yiu — an architect and curator whose work sits at the intersection of design, culture, and community. How creativity can shape more thoughtful cities, how to nurture the next generation of designers, and what it really takes to build something with cultural impact across Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and beyond.

00:00 Meet Marisa Yiu

00:59 Many Hats One Mission

02:35 Design Trust Origins

05:00 Urgency To Curate

08:45 Small Parks Big Change

12:11 Hong Kong Stories

25:07 Funding Proof And Partners

30:48 Inspire | Challenge | Disrupt

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In | Marisa Yiu — web | HK Design Trust

Books

The Art of Creative Leadership — Business Beyond Design

Playbooks

Forever Playbook™ → Analog Notebook System. Gain Clarity, Focus and Agency. A refillable notebook system in re-engineered leather. One planner, two notebooks, one pocket. Built to keep you in creative mode, not editing mode.

Play: Time Bending → Go from Anxiety to Control. Stop Reacting. Start Owning Your Schedule. Reclaim 10–20% of your week and protect deep creative work.

Play: Effective Decisions → De-risk Decisions. Build Confidence. Cut through complexity and move from hesitation to action.

Play: Messy Problems → Turn Ideas in Competitive Advantage. Reframe challenges and spark ideas that drive innovation.

Play: Toxic Managers → Manage Better. Stop Alienating. Start Empowering. No one Plans to be toxic. Until they are.

Play: Agentic Leadership → Lead Confidently. Build a super Hybrid Future Team. Everyone is talking about AI. Almost nobody is talking about who should lead it.

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In this episode, we meet Bobsy Gaia, Beirut-born ecopreneur and founder of MANA! Fast Slow Food, which has championed plant-based, socially responsible businesses in Hong Kong since the 1990s.

00:00 Mysterious Soho House Regular 02:03 Bobsy Gaia Origins in Eco Fashion 06:02 Creativity as Environmental Mission 07:45 Zero Waste Cafes to Mana 11:12 Designing Products With Purpose 18:43 Beirut War and Personal Turning Point 22:23 Cultural Creatives and Paradigm Shift 30:32 Inspire | Challenge | Disruptweb | Creativeldrs.comIn | Gianluca Cinquepalmi

Books

The Art of Creative LeadershipBusiness Beyond Design

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In this episode features Carla Martinesi — Founder and CEO of CHOMP, Hong Kong's award-winning food-saving app, and a Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia honouree for her work in sustainability.

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In this episode, GLC has an unreal conversation with Producer, Writer, Director, and Podcaster. Derek Ting.

From Wall Street to Warner Brothers — Derek shares how he left consulting to become an independent filmmaker, director, and podcaster.

We explore creative integrity, handling criticism, and what it means to build a career entirely on your own terms.

01:23 From Tech to Filmmaking 03:52 Sci Fi Inspirations and Indie Purpose 15:07 Criticism, Rejection, and Staying Polarizing 19:53 Podcasts and AI Curiosity 21:55 Film Inspirations and Chuck Norris 24:30 Advice for Young Filmmakers 27:04 Education Choices and Creative Responsibility

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About this episode

In this episode, a deep conversation with Hong Kong-based Photographer, Entrepreneur, and Producer Joyce Yung.

We explore her fascinating approach to Photography and creativity, and especially her transition from banking and finance to a thriving career in Photography and producing.

We deep-dive into the importance of creativity across several aspects of life and career.

00:00 From Banking to Photography

04:58 Finding a Style Through Experimentation

10:35 Pragmatic Creativity and Curiosity

17:30 Curiosity and Tech Balance

18:59 Creativity as Problem Solving

22:09 How do we build Creative Skills?

24:35 Build Luck Share Stories

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Episode Notes

The WEF states that by 2030 1 billion people will need to re-skill to address the issues of globalization, technical advancement, and the fourth industrial revolution.
One of the most important skills they mention is creativity. Can creativity be a true driver for social change? In this episode, GLC discusses with Co-Funder and CEO of the Moleskine Foundation Adama Sanneh about Creativity, Creative Leadership, and Social Change.

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If you have ever read a business or management book or article, the quote “what can be measured can be managed” is no stranger to you. But is it really true, and what if we measure the wrong stuff? Does this mean that we are managing the wrong stuff either? So how do you Measure Success?
Well, we will figure it out with our Wonderful guest Rachel Bethany Manager Customer Success @ Amplitude.

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Episode Notes

In this episode GLC discusses with Disruptive Entrepreneur & Founder. David Clementoni of Italian-Artisan they talk about a How to disrupt an industry and how tradition and innovation can not only co-exist but actually enhance each other.

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