Creative Confidence Podcast
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Creative Confidence Podcast
IDEO’s Creative Confidence Podcast shares candid conversations with creative leaders, changemakers, and innovators navigating today’s most pressing challenges. Through real-world stories and insights, we explore how to lead with creativity, build resilient teams, and drive innovation. Grounded in ID...
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Designing GenAI for the Emotional Side of Money: Johannes Seemann
Most personal financial tools are built to run the numbers and optimize towards a budget. While that works for some, most people experience money as a...
The Curious Leader's Edge in Uncertainty: Scott Shigeoka
We talk a lot about curiosity as a mindset. Scott Shigeoka lives it as a practice. Right now he’s driving a 25-foot purple van across the country, fin...
How Constraints Make Us More Creative: David Epstein
We're told more is always better—more options, more resources, more freedom. But David Epstein spent years looking at the science, and what he found c...
The Decisiveness Crisis in Senior Leadership Teams: Sam Conniff
Two thirds of leaders say they would rather be seen as decisive and get it wrong than appear uncertain and get it right. It may sound illogical, but i...
How to Not Know: Simone Stolzoff
We have more information than any generation in history. And we're more anxious about the future than ever. So what's going wrong?
In this episo...
AI Tools for Researchers, Patterns vs. Insights, and When to Trust AI Output: Q&A with Angela Kochoska
Angela Kochoska, Design Researcher and Data Scientist at IDEO and co-instructor in IDEO U's new course, Human-Centered Research with AI, joins Mina to...
How to Use AI For More Human-Centered Research: Hannah Rosenfeld
AI is changing what it means to be a researcher. But most teams are only using it one way—to go faster. In this episode, Hannah Rosenfeld, Executive D...
6 Patterns for Building Organizational Agility: Clay Parker Jones
Most organizations don’t fail because their ideas are wrong. They fail because the systems underneath those ideas aren’t designed to support them. In...
How Great Teams Leverage Tension as a Source of Innovation: Daniel Coyle (Replay)
Tension on your team isn’t always a problem to solve. In fact, it’s often a signal you’re doing meaningful work.
In this replay episode, bestse...
What Gets In the Way of Trust on Teams: Q&A with Ben Swire
There are many hidden barriers to building trust on teams, and sometimes we don’t see them until something breaks down.
In this episode of the C...
Building Risk-Taking Teams: Ben Swire
Team building often feels like a necessary evil. Leaders know it matters, but too often it feels awkward, forced, or disconnected from real work.
Playful Thinking Under Pressure: Q&A with Cas Holman & Michelle Lee
How do leaders apply playful thinking at work when time is short and the stakes are high?
In this Q&A episode of the Creative Confidence Podcast...
How a Playful Mindset Leads to Better Work: Cas Holman & Michelle Lee
For teams and leaders striving to unlock better collaboration and outcomes, play isn’t just a break from work—it’s a powerful leadership mindset. Embr...
Leadership Philosophies in Practice & Building Creative Teams: Q&A with Mike Peng
IDEO CEO Mike Peng returns to the Creative Confidence Podcast with an insightful, listener-driven conversation tailored for leaders, managers, and tea...
Part 2: Honest, Realistic, and Optimistic Leadership Advice from Friends of IDEO
The creative leadership advice continues. In Part 2, creative leaders including IDEO partners, alumni, and IDEO U instructors share hard-won lessons o...
Key Abilities of Creative Problem-Solvers: David Kelley (Replay)
This episode is a Creative Confidence Podcast replay. In celebration of 20 years of the Stanford d.school, we’re revisiting our conversation with Davi...
Part 1: Honest, Realistic, and Optimistic Leadership Advice from Friends of IDEO
As the year winds down, we asked 20 friends of IDEO including IDEO U instructors, Creative Confidence Podcast guests, and partners of IDEO to share ho...
3 Leadership Philosophies to Inspire Creative Excellence: Mike Peng
Host Mina Seetharaman chats with IDEO CEO Mike Peng about what creative excellence means today and how leaders can cultivate it on their teams. Mike s...
How to Prototype with AI: Takashi Wickes
Learn how interaction designer Takashi Wickes uses AI to prototype ideas with more creativity, intention, and humanity. In this conversation with host...
Asked & Answered: Justin Massa on Adopting AI with Purpose and Confidence
How can leaders bring AI into their organizations thoughtfully, without losing what makes them human? In this Asked & Answered episode, AI strategist...
How to Invest in AI for Your Business: Justin Massa
AI strategist and former IDEO partner Justin Massa joins host Mina Seetharaman to help leaders cut through the hype and focus on where artificial inte...
Asked & Answered: Jennifer Lo on Bringing Futuring into Your Organization
In this Asked & Answered episode, Jennifer Lo, IDEO's Senior Director of Design Futures, responds to community questions about how leaders can bring f...
How to Think Like a Futurist: Jennifer Lo
What does it mean to think like a futurist—and why should every leader learn how? In this episode of the Creative Confidence Podcast, Jennifer Lo, Sen...
Asked & Answered: Catherine Connors on Storytelling for Leaders, Scale, and the Future of Narrative
In this bonus episode of the Creative Confidence Podcast, storyteller and strategist Catherine Connors returns to answer top questions from our IDEO U...
Creative Collaboration with IDEO CEO Mike Peng (Replay)
In this conversation, IDEO CEO Mike Peng shares what it really takes to foster creative collaboration on teams. From designing for trust and tension t...
Storytelling for Change with a Former Disney Exec: Catherine Connors
What makes a story powerful enough to shift culture?In this episode of the Creative Confidence Podcast, Catherine Connors—former Head of Content at Di...
Asked & Answered: Matthieu Lorrain & Savannah Kunovsky
How are creative professionals actually using AI today? In this Asked and Answered follow-up episode, Google DeepMind’s Matthieu Lorrain and IDEO’s Sa...
AI x Creativity: Matthieu Lorrain & Savannah Kunovsky
Google DeepMind’s Matthieu Lorrain and IDEO’s Savannah Kunovsky on how AI is reshaping creative work.
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Staying Human-Centered in a Tech-First World | Grace Hwang
As technology accelerates, the challenge and opportunity is to stay anchored in what really matters: people. Host Mina Seetharaman talks with Grace Hw...
Introducing Mina Seetharaman: Your New Creative Confidence Podcast Host
The Creative Confidence Podcast has been going strong for eight years, with more than 120 leaders sharing their advice, tips, and stories with the IDE...
What Leaders Should Know About Leading Through Change: Melanie Bell-Mayeda
Learn how to lead through change and uncertainty with a human-centered approach. Discover three key leadership levers to help your team navigate uncer...
How to Improve Your Leadership Mindset for Greater Growth: Bonnie Wan
Explore how overcoming limiting beliefs and enhancing your leadership mindset, with guidance from Bonnie Wan, can propel your growth as a leader.
How to Take Action and Shape Your Future Today: Frederik Pferdt
Discover how small actions today can shape the future you want. Learn key strategies for taking control of your future with empathy, experimentation,...
Unlock the Power of Systems Thinking: Deirdre Cerminaro
Learn the core mindsets of systems thinking to tackle complex problems. Our beginner's guide helps you zoom in and out, shift perspectives, and refram...
The Role of Human-Centered Leadership in the Age of AI
Discover the importance of human-centered leadership and AI. Learn how to balance technological advancements with empathy and ethics to drive sustaina...
Humanistic AI: Tom Gruber, Co-Creator of Siri
What skills can help us get the most out of AI? When we approach AI in a human way, with people at the center, it can be a powerful tool that augments...
Creating Impactful Products: YC Sun
Great products and services are driven by great product strategy. But too often we get stuck in the strategy part of product strategy, failing to get...
Manager Mentorship Strategies: David Yeager
We all want to be great managers. But when it comes to actually working with and leading young people, there’s no clear strategy or playbook for succe...
Why Curiosity is a Business Imperative: Scott Shigeoka
Most of us recognize why curiosity is important. Few of us know how to practice and unleash its full potential. But when leaders embrace curiosity, it...
How Great Leaders Use Friction: Bob Sutton
At its worst, friction can be a destructive force in an organization. Friction can undermine productivity and innovation, create inefficiency, and eve...