Ram Castillo is a Design Director, two-time Author, Speaker, CreativeLive Instructor, Decision-making Business Coach and Approved Advisor based in Sydney. His focus is to help business owners, entrepreneurs and leaders get unstuck through human centred design methodologies, creative strategy, digital marketing and branding. For 16 years Ram has been working for global agencies including Ogilvy & Mather, DDB, JWT, McCann. He was most recently the Head of Digital Design for Saatchi & Saatchi and has serviced clients including Audi, McDonald’s, Qantas, Google, AMEX, Toyota and The Louis Vuitton Group. He's been featured in Apple, GE, Communication Arts, HOW magazine, CreativeLive, Herman Miller, VIVID festival and The American Institute of Design.

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Timestamps

2:02 Why Ram Castillo is a big deal, and how he came to be this way

4:40 On leveraging a tool like Clubhouse

7:31 The most important step of the design thinking process

8:02 You already have the most important marketing tool: your brand

12:13 Finding your competitive advantage

15:27 Defining your version of success

18:03 The true definition of wealth

20:13 Overcoming obstacles on the way to success

23:28 The value of planting many seeds

25:16 The alchemy of creativity and transformation

33:36 The secret formula to success

37:15 How to design a purpose

38:46 Ram’s current fascination with convenience vs. delayed gratification

41:18 The opportunity right in front of us all

43:22 Ram’s decision-making framework