Fail Faster

Amanda S. Powell is a UX designer at Home Depot. This role was the first role where she got challenged like never before and spent the toughest months of her work life yet. She shares how she overcame her anxiety by asking the right questions and showing the stakeholders the process of design thinking firsthand. Her exciting journey as a UX designer is just starting and she is ready to make an impact with her designs especially in the accessibility area which she has a special passion for.

Jacob Rubin is the youngest entrepreneur guest I have had so far:) He has been fascinated about building things since a kid. He is already the founder of a startup called Skipit, in his third year at Northeastern University. He talks about the exciting path this venture is taking him and his partner as they get ready to launch their new app Skipit in Boston. This episode is the curtain raiser for what's to come.

Andrew is the VP of Technology at Lazaridis School of Business and Economics in Ontario, Canada. In this episode he shares great wisdom as a young guy who lost his first job starting out and how that led him to knock on a few hundred doors. Only to discover a unique way to communicate: How awesome he is! Which made some great brands like Shopify and Blackberry pick him from the crowd. His attitude about life also reflects in his work as he designs software products, let's find out more:)

Neil Fasen is the Senior Director of Product Practices at Best Buy. He also used to skate and build skateboards. His broken bones and scrappy, outsider approach let him skate right past waterfall into agile before he even knew what either of those was! From building Target's first mobile shopping app to shaping a culture of empowered autonomy at Best Buy, Neil is always learning new tricks.

Mike Harper is the Data and Analytics Solution Strategy Senior Director at

Evernorth, a new company Cigna is creating to help improve global health. After wild times with cell carriers and gaming Mike was pulled to big healthcare to help them think like a startup. Now he's making all the squares line up; ethics and morals, privacy, and stakeholder support to build the future of health.

My guest Rob Swymer is the Country Manager, UK and Ireland at Splunk which is the world's first Data

To Everything Platform. Splunk helps over 18,000 customers world-wide unlock the value of their data,

giving them the insights to drive operational performance and business results, creating massive

value for their business. In this episode, Rob touches upon a lot of powerful concepts that he is executing with his teams to drive growth and a culture of high trust. Managing high pressure demands can become a breeze with the right mindset to be of service and come from a place of giving instead of getting.

Kenton Hankins is the Digital Transformation Director at Pegasystems. Kenton shares his journey of spotting patterns within companies that can lead to opportunities to build software and improve. He details the power of design sprints not only getting people excited about potential transformation efforts, but also as a way to break down silos. We riff on why the majority of Digital Transformation projects fail and why design is so important for their ultimate success. Plus, we'll touch on showing the business case for design.

Alianor Chapman is a Senior Director Of Engineering at Mailchimp. Alianor is a long-time Mailchimp team member where she helped build a number of critical practices including building their first QA team. Alianor's path into tech started as an artist and photographer into customer support. You'll hear some of the invaluable lessons that art school and working on the front lines of customer support taught her about leading teams. Alianor shares a number of thoughtful stories on communication, selecting the right software for a project (and the consequences of not asking the right questions) and how she is approaching an overarching customer experience transformation in 2021.

Ozgur Yerli is the Director Of Digital Transformation Project at LC Waikiki, a global fashion retailer with more than 1000 stores in 47 countries. Ozgur's work stretches borders, but what is consistent is her focus on delivering a phenomenal customer experience at every step of the journey. You'll follow her career journey as she delivers powerful business results and thoughtfully articulates how digital transformation can succeed or fail.

Today my guest is a pretty Russian young leader Tatiana Sorokina. She is the Solutions Director, Data Science & Artificial Intelligence at Novartis, one of the top pharmaceutical companies in the world. You are in for a treat as we go through the various chapters of her life from becoming a young leader, to dropping a great role and putting herself through the challenges as an entrepreneur. The learnings she had by failing early in her endeavours led her to a path of accelerated growth where she is not afraid to ask uncomfortable questions to address her curiosity and create software products that continue to improve. This truly is one of the juiciest episodes for me so far.