Fail Faster

Michael Fulton is the Head of Innovation and Product Strategy at Expedient. He shares his super interesting journey from a date to a love affair with technology and at what point it became a marriage. He shares his thinking, his process and tips on executing digital transformation and innovation by pulling great hands on examples from all phases of his career. His drive for making an impact with Technology is unstoppable and I'm sure you will hear in this episode.

Eduardo Almeida is the Director of Innovation and R&D at BrandSafway. He shares his unusual path into tech, his views on innovation as a constant process, and his appricieation for problems. If there's no problem, there's nothing to work on. Problems are our opportunities.

Andre Reid is the Sr. Director - Product Management at Poly which makes, among other things, the Polycom systems we used to use back in the days when we worked in offices. He shares a story about the importance of user testing - particularly for hardware and how Covid has triggered a radical transformation of workspaces.

Isaac Korn, Director of Innovation at Perry Ellis International, a leading international fashion brand joins us to talk about his approach to reduce waste in the fashion industry and make the workflow integrations from the manufacturer to designer to fitter to distributor of the final product more real time and seamless. As a bonus, you will love to hear about his exciting new initiative around 3D virtualization.

Jason Goodhand (@jgoodhand) is the Head of Product at Fern Health a digital care company helping people break free of pain. Jason has an illustrious career starting as a designer before moving into product and has spent the last number of years in health tech. We cover a wide range of topics from data privacy, to education, but ultimately focusing on how technology can improve people's lives. (Book reference: Engaged: Designing for Behavior Change by Amy Bucher)

Jeff Allen is the Senior Director - Global Grooming Engineering at Proctor & Gamble where he leads a global team for mechanical, plastic molding, chemical, hardware and software engineering. Jeff shares his path from mechanical engineer to a global manager across projects. We dive deep into his thoughts on digital transformation and focusing on small wins before continuing to iterate. Finally, we dive deep into a serious challenge around context switching and wasted time for his team.

Viswanath Subramaniam is the Sr Director Of Engineering, Unified Communications at Motorola Solutions. Viswa explores his 23+ year journey at Motorola from an engineer to manager. As Viswa leads a global team with offices all over the world, he shares his top tips for managing across cultures and how he looks at prioritizing these projects. We then speak more explicitly about Cybersecurity and how teams should look at protecting themselves.

Vishal Kapoor, Head of Innovation at Prospection, a pioneer in providing data analytics to understand Healthcare utilization and improve the patient journey. In today's episode, he shares his perspective on the product design approach, how it starts with the consumer's needs. You will have fun hearing about his stories on how experimenting with ecommerce during his early college days paved a path for a fun journey in analytics.

Simon Kanapka is the Deputy Chief Product Officer at eDreams Odigeo. He shares hard lessons from waterfall method mishaps and how the travel industry is coping with an evolving pandemic while building for a post-COVID world.

Nathan Kimpel is the SVP of Technology at Engel & Völkers, overseeing all IT operations, global infrastructure, and project management for the Western Hemisphere. He talks about how his small, scrappy team can outpace larger organizations, the challenges of user adoption, and that one time they accidentally unplugged the server.