Fail Faster

Jenny Elfsberg is the Head of Innovation Management på Vinnova, Sweden's Innovation Agency. Jenny shares some fascinating tales of leadership and management, particularly how she gets the most out of exceptional, world-class talent such as the top engineers in Volvo. She also shares what makes Sweden such a magical place for innovation and creativity and likewise what she wants to see from it and its innovators moving forward.

Jonathan Labovich is the Chief Experience Officer at Cred, a financial services platform that provides highly competitive rates on digital assets, from bitcoin to USD. Jonathan shares his journey from the startup world in the first tech boom, to starting a successful design firm before helping bring design to PwC. Jonathan shares some of the techniques he used to get design thinking adopted at an accounting company. He also shares why one of the missing pieces in the crypto industry is design and what his team is doing about it.

Manuel Cassio shares how key events in his life thrust him into the study of genetics, which subsequently led him to study AI and engineering. He is now building a revolutionary new startup to empower patients to identify if they have COVID 19 without having to go to hospital.

Erald Gjoni is the Chief Technology Officer at Furniture Mart USA. Erald shares why the furniture industry is poised for a revolution that is going to be driven by technology. Coming fresh off a 2 year ERP installation, Erald is full of lessons learned and goals for the road ahead. Erald is passionate about delivering a world class customer experience. He shares the challenges both organizationally and from a technology perspective on that goal and why data will be the key.

A double header episode brings together Ian Boulton and Matthew Zimmermann. Ian is the Sr Director, FA&D Digital Transformation Sales at PTC. Matt is the CEO at Beast Code. They are partnering to bring together Digital Twins for the modern day warfighter. They share stories of collaboration and what makes their partnership hum. Of particular note is how two completely different sized organizations can learn from each other and take advantage of their unique skills.

Our Guest Andrew Rolf, Founder of Cursive Consulting and Customer Experience Consultant at Ascential, talks about his passion for troubleshooting for big organizations, he shares his wins, failures and juicy takeaways that shape most of his work today.

George Finney is an artist when it comes to cybersecurity. He's also the Chief Information Security Officer at Southern Methodist University and the author of a new book called Well Aware: Master the Nine Cybersecurity Habits to Protect Your Future. In this episode, George shares incredible tips drawn his experiences in art, entrepreneurship, law, and neuroscience!

Our guest Riaz Hassan, Vice President Service Offering Strategy & Product Management at Volvo Group talks about how he had a breakthrough as a young professional in the Telecom world by delivering value to organizations and end customers by centralizing a dissolute framework of network management. Now he is getting ready to create history again by bringing IOT as a connecting thread to tie the various moving parts in the automotive industry to make sense of the disruptions happening in the world of automotives.

"If you're going to create something new, it should be 10x better and 10x cheaper." Chris Bernard is Head of User Experience & Design at CDK Global, a pioneer and market leader in dealership management software for the automotive industry. In today's episode, he shares his perspective on the role of a design executive, the importance of storytelling, and hacking your way to innovation in a large organization.

Our guest Stuart Brown is bringing about Digital Transformation from within people, listen to an interesting journey of how Stuart is infusing customer-centricity in the fabric of banking work culture that he is a part of.