Fail Faster

Wayne Haber, is the Director of Engineering at GitLab. Gitlab is a complete DevOps platform, to help teams improve development cycle time from weeks to minutes. Wayne is also a veteran of three successful startups (including GitLab) and has experience in multiple areas including healthcare, finance, and security. Wayne talks about how bringing transparency and constantly iterating leads to growth and fulfillment. He is excited about applying ML to improve user experience and loves the environment of continuous collaboration at Gitlab.

Dave Hoffer, ex-McKinsey AP and exPWC MD, joins me to share his Design wisdom on his new book on Design Transformation. He talks about the interesting relationship between Design and long-term thinking and how it plays into our social layers of culture, infrastructure, policies, etc. He talks about the importance of slowing down and for companies to pay more attention to details as they scale and not fall into the trap of "moving fast and breaking things." This episode is a must-listen for company and Design leaders.

Mathew McCarthy joins me from G4S, a leading global, integrated security company. His passion for people, process and technology comes through in this conversation. He shares how during Covid his team was tasked with designing tools and processes for making going back to work safe for various organizations. Matt shares his approach to developing and implementing product management pipelines and processes.

Ethan Danstrom is the VP of User Experience at Signify Health, a leading healthcare platform that leverages technology to create value-based payment programs transforming how care is paid for and delivered at home. Ethan brings a fresh perspective to User Experience by focusing on how to bring more ease to any task be it physical or digital. He believes in starting with understanding the pieces of the process which always fit into a solution like pieces of a puzzle fit together. This episode is packed with tons of practical tools spanning from strategy to handling anxiety at work to adopting UX as a way of thinking in our lives.

Sal Bolaños, Design Director at TransUnion, which is a global information and insights company that makes trust possible between businesses and consumers, by ensuring that each consumer is reliably and safely represented in the marketplace. Sal shares his organic journey fed by curiosity and hunger to keep learning and improving. In his role as a design leader he involves business leaders early in the design process which makes the immediate and long term value more real for all the stakeholders.

Mark Zais is the Chief Data Scientist at US Special Operations Command. He is an experienced Army officer with a history of military leadership roles working with government, academia, and private industry. He is bringing his skills in data science and machine learning to leading a large organization towards becoming more data-driven.