In this episode we talk to Julia Makhubela – a consultant from 54twentyfour who is passionate about disrupting human resources. She uses human-centred design to create employee experiences that are inclusive: it’s about how we can be different together. She shares some personal stories that have guided her understanding of what we need to change for the employee of the present and the future.

- Julia's LinkedIn profile = https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliamakhubela/

- Company link = https://www.54twentyfour.co.za/

In this episode we speak to Iain Bryant from Future by Design, discussing the importance of innovation, listening and understanding customers points of view, as well as the context of design thinking in Africa to the rest of the world, and our unique challenges.

Madelein Taljaard, Experience Design Director for the payroll mid-market sector at Sage Global, talks about the challenges and solutions of creating globally diverse software development teams with a human-centred mindset and culture to design and develop tools based on real user data.

In this episode, we speak to Herman Singh from Future Advisory about innovation, creativity through adversity and his experience of product successes and failures.

Jen is a design thinker and innovator with a background in IT and software development. In this episode we discuss how corporates miss opportunities for growth because of a reluctance to embrace the ‘non-traditional’ design thinking approach to problem solving.

Ulrich has an intense passion for design thinking and chats to us via a Zoom call for this episode. He is an experience designer at McKinsey and is the founder of Leftfield Lab. He shares his perspective on how creatives need to be more collaborative in working to solve problems, and the need to change corporate mindsets to accept creatives in the strategy decision making process.

Vikee is the lead researcher and educator of all things design thinking at Tenaka. In this first episode of our podcast Vikee takes us back to basics, explaining what design thinking is: the mindsets, the methods and some misunderstandings. We look at the impact of design thinking done right, with some practical examples.