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Workplaces need fixing. That's the view of gender equality and organisational culture advocate Michelle King… and she has decades of her own research to back it up. As the founder of Equality Forward and with current and former roles as Senior Advisor to the UN Foundation’s Girl Up Campaign, Director of Inclusion at Netflix, and Head of UN Women’s Global Innovation Coalition for Change, Michelle works with leaders to build workplace cultures that thrive.

In this episode of Designit’s podcast, YELLO, you’ll discover the current state of equality from Michelle’s point of view. You’ll also hear how you can become a leader in a community of like-minded people, what leadership based on diversity and equality should look like, and what is holding leaders back. With plenty of actions you can take yourself.

Find out more about Michelle at www.michellepking.com and the organisation she co-founded, equalityforward.com - if that wasn’t enough, you can listen in to her brilliant podcast, The Fix, on all your favourite podcast places.

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Drivers, carers, babysitters, professional nannies, cleaners and many other workers are now, more than ever before, using online marketplaces to find jobs. Often using an app. But the conditions they work under are not equal around the world. In fact, in a worrying development, an increasing number of companies see value in avoiding traditional employees and the usual employer/employee set-up. You could argue the Gig Economy, as it’s called, has changed the way we work forever. But what about the people doing these jobs?

Guro Røberg talks to Dawn Gearhart, Director of Gig Economy Organising at the NDWA (National Domestic Workers Alliance), who has made it her mission to give Gig Economy workers a voice.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:
- What the Gig Economy is and the ideas behind the business models being used today
- The costs and consequences for workers using open platforms for jobs
- How design plays a significant role, particularly how design solutions have produced new problems
- And who the allies and antagonists are in this overall story.

You can find out more about the NDWA here: www.domesticworkers.org
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Let's explore the world of Circular Economy, particularly how it applies to businesses.

Humans have been taking, making and disposing of the stuff we need in an alarmingly linear way for too long. And, let's face it, our waste often ends as landfill. A different, increasingly important approach is that of a Circular Economy, which follows a non-linear flow. Designing products that can be "made to be made again", for example. You could say it's a mindset shift affecting everyone from single consumers to connected communities, stretching worldwide.

Join Guro Røberg in conversation with two experts working with Circular Economy daily. Emma Gains is Sustainable Development Lead at Arup Denmark, and Melissa Ciardullo is Project Leader for Circular Product Development at IKEA. Both companies are recognized as being leaders in initiatives around this topic.

In this episode, you'll hear about:

- The role circular economy and circular design can play in shaping your business in the future,
- Principles that can help you steer a safe course on what can be a seemingly tricky journey,
- And what could happen if businesses don't adopt this shift soon.

We hope you enjoy it!

On the face of it, the use of data, and the meaning it can bring to businesses, is a complex topic to dig into. So, join us as we hear from Richard George, Refinitiv’s Global head of digital and account-based marketing ( www.refinitiv.com ). He’s worked in the digital and data-led field with retailer Marks and Spencer, telecommunications with O2 and Eircom, and financial services with Thomsen Reuters. In this episode, we’ll explore the importance of financial and business data in running a company and how that can have a positive effect on consumers, businesses, and the planet. We’ll take a closer look at:


- How critical data is for decision making and how it can be applied to that process
- Digital marketing and how it’s changed over the past few years
- Best practices for successful data-driven companies


It’s fair to say, applying data in ways that are meaningful to society is at the center of Richard’s work, and he’s constantly on the look-out for opportunities to create a positive impact.

Leading the conversation is Strategic Design Director Guro Røberg, based out of our Oslo studio.

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This episode is all about how better, ethical use of patient data can improve public health services. We hear from Professor Carsten Obel, Professor of Public Health at Århus University, in Denmark. He’s someone with a vision for rethinking health services and health provision and currently spearheading research into how health data can fuel our future health system, how it is a foundation for improving the patient experience, and how mindfulness around mental health is an important factor in shaping that experience.

Carsten is also part of a group investigating the development of the COVID-19 infection and its impact on the everyday lives of Danes. Supporting the dialogue between families and doctors and, for example, and helping to identify early signs of infection, spread risks in the home, and possible late effects of the disease. Read more at https://www.coronaviden.dk/

Driving the conversation with Carsten, which took place in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, is Design Director and long-time collaborator, Jakob Voldum based in our Copenhagen studio.

We hope you enjoy it!

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Female leadership is a subject that has been highly-discussed for some time. And the facts out there clearly state we are losing pace. There’s a lot of work still to be done. Just as there’s work to be done to address a lack of diversity, inclusivity, and equity in organisations and businesses.

One organization bringing the public and private sector together, and giving female leaders a voice, is the Nobel Peace Center. Oslo PAX, the beginnings of a movement from the Peace Center - featuring Nobel Laureates, changemakers, and activists as guests - highlights the need for action when it comes to diversity and gender inclusion in peace and war.
So, this episode is all about Diversity, plus Leadership and Sustainability, seen through the lens of the Nobel Peace Prize and Nobel Prize-winners.

Joining us to share her take on them is Kjersti Fløgstad, CEO of the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway. Kjersti has led a fascinating career spanning corporate and social sectors. She’s been in leadership positions since she was 30, a Director for one of Norway’s banks at 33, and the Secretary-General of UNICEF Norway for ten years.

In this episode, you’ll hear how you as a business can gain from, and speed up, the process of diversity and sustainability. You’ll hear reflections on the qualities that make a good leader – based on experience, recognizing your own bias, and the barriers that still exist. And you can expect honest discussion around the experience of being a woman in a leadership role today and why it’s important that businesses and organisations come together.

If you would like to learn more about the Nobel Peace Center and Oslo PAX visit their website: www.nobelpeacecenter.org/en/news/diversity-matters-gender-and-inclusion-in-peace-and-war

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YELLO meets Los Angeles-based future-thinker, Tatiana Toutikian, to dive into the world of Speculative Design - sometimes called Critical Design.

Tatiana is working right at the intersection of design, business, social science, and technology - helping businesses, the public sector, and nonprofits get a bird’s eye view on the whole system surrounding their service. In this episode, Tatiana will talk about the need for following societal and technological trends, and weak signals, and how her career so far has shaped her own experiences in the field. You can expect to hear about:

- How you anticipate and plan for future products, services, and experiences
- How this area of design help businesses not only grow but constantly rethink where they’re at
- And what the purpose of doing speculative and critical design is, in the first place.

Leading the conversation with Tatiana is Katja Forbes, Managing Director of our Australia and New Zealand studios, and board member at IxDA (that’s the Interaction Design Association if you don’t know). In fact, IxDA is where Tatiana and Katja first met.

We hope you enjoy it!

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YELLO meets Johann Olav Koss. An Olympic gold medallist in speed skating and founder of the global non-profit organization, Right to Play. We took the opportunity to talk with him to better understand his passion for sustainability and leadership. Since founding Right To Play in 2000, the non-profit is now working with schools and community-based organizations globally, offering training and education through its innovative play-based learning methodology.

What needs to happen to successfully build and grow sustainable organizations, like Right To Play? And what is expected of business leaders as they shape the organizations of the future? As Johann points out, working within the right time horizon helps.

Leading the conversation with Johann is Guro Røberg, based out of our Oslo studio with sustainability at the forefront of her interests in design. We hope you enjoy!


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Mike Monteiro, author, designer, and co-founder of Mule Design, based in San Francisco, joins Guro Røberg from our Oslo studio to talk about how we can begin to think through the problems we're facing in the world right now.

His message is clear: there’s work to be done.
Lessons from our recent history serve up some useful teachings on how to design ethically (and unethically). We’ll examine some of those more closely, and critically. As a champion for design, education, leadership, working practices, and diversity – Mike believes we can build better societies for all if we just bother to learn from our mistakes and understand what it really means to design responsibly. These are topics covered in both his latest book ‘Ruined by Design’ …AND in this episode.

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Could privacy become only for the rich? Pernille Tranberg thinks so. Pernille is a journalist, advisor, and educator in data ethics, data privacy, and data democracy and is actively exploring what the role of data is today. Our Futures Lab Director, Lasse Underbjerg, went along to meet her.

In the next 30 minutes, you’ll discover:
- what data ethics and data privacy is
- the different types of data and how they can be used for positive impact
- how to anonymize data
- how different companies and countries are dealing with data privacy
- where data has been abused and where we should draw the line
- what companies can do to process data more ethically
- when human usage of data vs AI usage is acceptable
- how you can design for data and how data can help us
- real-life examples of how data is used responsibly
- …and what the future of data privacy will look like

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The YELLO team