Fail Faster

Lauren Zack is the VP of Product Design at Doma, formerly known as States Title. Under Lauren's leadership, this group is aggressively working on making title and escrow a simpler, seamless process for lenders, agents and homebuyers across the country. Lauren is a highly accomplished and passionate design leader who is very excited about bringing the new transformative technologies to disrupt the real estate industry so people like you and me can easily buy homes sitting on our couch. If you want to get inspired and know more about designing minimum lovable products, this episode is a must-listen:)

Adam Kesner, Senior Director of Product Management joins me from COX Automotive, a global company with more than 27,000 team members and a family of brands that make buying, selling, owning and using vehicles easier for everyone. He shares how his curiosity behind the "why" for whatever he did led him to a path of Product management to his role now where he is continuously working to improve the experience of the various users in the automotive industry. Stitching a user experience from auto agents to technicians in the service to parts inventory management to financial tools to empower auto dealerships to be able to serve their customers better

Koji Pereira is the Senior Manager of Product Design at Twitter, and was formerly Head of Design for Lyft Business. In our conversation, he discusses how pursuing creativity and ambitious ideas led to a number of fast failures, a few huge wins, and a successful and fulfilling career at organizations like Google, Lyft, and Twitter. He's passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the design community, which he expresses as a design mentor and through his Instagram Live show, Cells and Pixels.

Abhay Kataria is the Senior Director of Engineering at Seagate Technologies which is a precision-engineered data storage company based in Fremont, CA. Abhay brings some very meaningful insights from leading the org for the last 22 years and how he is fostering the culture of evolving by failing faster, iterating and growing. He believes in giving space to his teams to try something different to find freedom in structured frameworks.

Devesh Dahale currently works as the Director of Health Systems Engineering at Southeast Health, a 420-bed regional facility. This team, through innovation and sustained performance, has achieved the reputation of providing excellent diagnostic, clinical, surgical and patient care services available in the region. Devesh's previous improvement work in healthcare was at Cincinnati Children's Hospital and through two collaboratives consisting of multiple pediatric hospitals.

Devesh's journey is very intriguing from his early days of automotive component engineering and solving physical component issues like wiring defects to now providing meaningful inferences to add efficiencies to processes and improvements in performance within Healthcare facilities. His work in effectively capturing bedside patient data and understanding at a larger scale the general well-being of a patient population and even community is very impressive. His passion for continuous improvement of patient outcomes and experience is super inspiring.