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As both an artist and the founder of a global creative executive search firm, Michelle Stuhl shares how pursuing her passion with the support of strong female mentors lead to a fulfilling, unexpected career trajectory.

Bjarke Ingels, founder and creative partner of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), shares how empathy for the community drives his creative design solutions, which include incorporating a ski slope and climbing wall into the exterior of a waste-to-energy plant.

Michael Bierut, graphic designer, Pentagram partner, and founder of Design Observer, talks about inspiration and how rejection is a learning opportunity in disguise.

Michel Rojkind, founding partner of Rojkind Arquitectos and Senior Vice President of Architecture at WeWork, discusses the permanent ways he predicts working, travel and the pace of life will change following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Janou Pakter, founder of global creative and marketing executive search firm, Janou LLC, shares her number one interview tip.

Karim Rashid, who believes “we are all born creative,” shares how his childlike sense of wonder has fueled his career as one of the most prolific industrial designers of our time.

Carole Bilson, President of The Design Management Institute, speaks about the importance of diverse representation in the design world and how we can pave a path for the next generation of women and people of color in the industry.

Kevin Bethune’s background spans engineering, business and design with leadership roles at Nike, Boston Consulting Group and his own innovation think tank, dreams • design + life. He believes design’s purpose expands far beyond just a beautiful sketch or product, design is a “creative problem solving toolkit” that can be applied to improve organizations and societal systems at large.

Ravi Naidoo is the founder of Interactive Africa and Design Indaba, an annual three-day design conference hosted in Cape Town, South Africa. Devoted to building a better world through creativity, he shares his journey to creating one of the world’s most important design conferences and why he believes designers are incurable romantics. 

Stefan Sagmeister, graphic design and founder of Sagmeister & Walsh, says that consistently overcoming your fears leads to a more fulfilling career, and life.