This week, we are talking to Rosemary Ugboajah, from Neka Creative. She joins me to discuss work/life balance, striving for inclusion, and how to overcome our own bias in order to produce our best work.

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Colin Ellis joins us to talk about the lost art of team building and the importance of defining your project culture before you start to design or build anything.

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Jeff Sussna joins us to talk about the number one thing that trips up organizations and teams when it comes to adopting agile principles and his concept of promise-driven design.

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Brandon Jernigan, a Design and Innovation Strategist at Target, and I talk about how large companies like Target and Amazon test new products with customers and we also discuss ways to manage expectations of senior leadership when launching innovation initiatives.

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Christopher Stephan from The Nerdery joins me to discuss research and analysis in user experience design, how to find who you should be talking to and more importantly, how to talk to them.

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This week, Emily Soccorsy and Justin Foster from Root + River join us to discuss how reputation is earned and not designed and why being a great leader does not necessarily mean being the loudest person in the room.

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Howie Milstein, founder of personal training in the Twin Cities and leadership consultant, joins us to talk about why it’s so important that today’s leaders stop taking themselves so seriously and begin engaging their teams with warmth and vulnerability.

Check out Howie’s work at https://www.launchpadcareercoaching.com and http://www.lightenupatwork.com

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This week, we are talking to Nick Roseth, the man behind HOUT Digital and DocuMNtary. Nick and I talk about the history of innovation and tech in Minnesota and why the startup community here is so open and supportive.

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This week, we are talking to Jen Swanson Vice President of Digital Product Management at Optum about the importance of networking both outside and inside your organization. We also talk about why everyone should be working on their negotiation skills.

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This week, we are talking to Jim Cuene and Joe Ruekert from Fahren. We sit down to discuss how building an innovation-driven culture comes from your organization's ability to communicate and why taking a product instead of a project approach reduces risk and cost in the long term.

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