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Fail Faster episodes

  • #235 - The magic of having a great team of specialists

    Beth Seaman, Vice President, Product Experience at Entertainment Partners joins us to give us a glimpse of her exciting day at work as she leads high performing teams managing multiple complex enterprise projects. Her learnings from her foundational years as a designer at Disney fuels some of the process frameworks today at EP. What's the mindset of a leader dealing with ambiguity in a highly accountable role? Let's find out!

    21 min
  • #234 - Making Healthcare an ongoing conversation rather than a stressful episodic occurrence

    Jonathan Witenko, System Director of Virtual Health and Telemedicine at Lee Health engages with us to share his hugely inspiring career and life story. How he became passionate about bringing tech to empower Healthcare professionals to truly serve people in need, meet them where they are be it at Church or a Barber shop. Jon's passion to serve impactfully is impressive, he is working on some great projects to bring digital health equality and making healthcare simple, usable and practical. Jon is looking for the right partners to collaborate with.

    33 min
  • #233 - What does it sound like when you change your mind?

    Adam Thomas, Lead Product Manager at SmartRecruiters joins us to share the three key questions Product designers need to ask the stakeholders to keep the work going in the direction of success. Almost 60-90% of ideas are bad ideas when it comes to delivering real value. This episode talks about a mindset that embraces the freedom to change your mind and pivot before it's too late.

    30 min
  • #232 - Value of accuracy for today's Traveller

    Brad Jaehn, Vice President: Product Strategy & Operations at Arrivia, a travel organization with a mission to help people around the world travel better and experience more. Brad shares what is important to today's traveler and how leaders have to find opportunities to continuously innovate to meet short-term goals while pursuing long-term strategic objectives in constantly evolving world.

    20 min
  • #231 - Would you trade a high paying job for a less paying more flexible job?

    Brent Kedzierski is the Chief Learning Officer at HumanWRKS providing Industry 5.0 solutions and strategies based on learning science and human-centric design principles for today's connected worker. Brent shares what works and what doesn't work as we shift from mass production to mass personalized environments. Our direct leaders make more of an impact on our general well-being than our healthcare providers. Brent shares what people really want from a job based on research data.

    36 min
  • #230 - Work for a start-up at least once
    Lata Ahuja is the Senior Director of Engineering at CarGurus, engineering a better car-shopping experience using technology and data analytics. Lata shares her experience in delivering products in the start up space and the important lessons she learnt from working at startups. She shares tips and tricks about scaling technology teams efficiently through hyper-growth curves. Disclaimer: While Lata works as CarGurus, the views expressed on this podcast are her own.
    20 min
  • #229 - Learn, dialogue and play your way into the Metaverse
    Sandy Carter SVP and Channel Chief at Unstoppable Domains, Sandy's mission is to onboard the world onto the decentralized web by building blockchain-based identity platforms. Sandy gives a glimpse into this new digital world where we walk and control our digital identities as we like. This digital world of decentralized web allows users to step into the metaverse. Are you ready to learn, dialogue and play and step into the world of Web 3?
    16 min
  • #228 - The limitless world of learning
    Tosin Aje-Adegbite is the senior director of product management at EAB. EAB is an education management organization with a mission to empower educational institutes across the nation. Tosin shares how she continues to make huge impacts in empowering educational institutions with continuous attention to delivering relevant content in ways that are engaging. This episode touches upon limitless possibilities for students, teachers and institutions as they begin to leverage the beauty and scale the digital world offers when it comes to receiving and imparting learning.
    25 min
  • #227 - Who is the right employer for you today?

    Neetika Bansal is the Head of Engineering, Money Movement at Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Neetika shares what it takes to keep the talent engaged and hire the right new talent in this hot market. Her stories of how her engineering team at Stripe emerged as a winner as the eCommerce market went through a decade of growth in a span of a few months, are not to be missed.

    28 min
  • #226 - What would you choose - A small great experience or a crappy big one?
    Milan Kocic is the Head of Sixth Sense - an open innovation platform at Hexagon Manufacturing Intelligence. A global leader in digital reality solutions, combining sensor, software and autonomous technologies to make factories smarter. Milan brings his wisdom from finding himself in new roles that he crafts in organizations around product, service and innovation design. He draws an interesting parallel in the Fintech and Manufacturing industry to arrive at an innovative speed-dating platform to make startups successful. This conversation packs a lot of interesting nuggets to guide leaders to aim for the right balance between making an impact on the bottom line and continuing their ability to dream for the next big innovative leap.
    33 min

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