The Culture Design Show

Hugh Weber and Steve Chaparro express their hopes for the future in this episode of The Culture Design Show where they talk about the impact of COVID-19 on the design industry, the indispensable role of the artist in society, the power of network effects, and why your children could be your secret weapon toward creative breakthroughs. Stay tuned.

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Pierre Delinois and Steve Chaparro discuss what it means to be a leader and changemaker in the modern design space. They cover topics such as building a cohesive team culture, conducting a design sprint, consulting on versus facilitating projects, integrating design thinking into your process along with other organizational approaches, and how design thinking can reshape the employee experience during COVID-19 when most people are working from home.

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In this week’s episode, Steve Chaparro talks with Tim Mullen, co-founder of Heelix, about his neuroscience and data-driven company that’s dedicated to boosting creativity and productivity through understanding your teams’ emotional state. Tune in as he discusses the importance of emotional intelligence and cultivating the right soft skills to build team collaboration, and how asking the right questions plays an essential role to team performance and improved customer relationships.

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Bennie Johnson shares his thoughts on his exciting new position as Executive Director at AIGA Design, a role he took on in January 2020. It was an innate love for design and a spirit of entrepreneurship that led him down the path he walks today, as the leader of the “professional association for design”. Listen in and learn how Bennie, a 100 days into his new role, is working to inspire resilience in the midst of a rapidly changing world, driven by an unforeseen crisis, in 2020.

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Jacob Morgan and Steve Chaparro go through the key points laid out in The Future Leader. They cover topics such as the evolution of expectations and values people have of leaders, defining your purpose and meaning (and the difference between the two), being clear about what you stand for, and how COVID-19 has exposed true leadership.

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Steve Chaparro and Maurice Cherry discuss how to lead an effective design team. Having been both an employee and a business owner in the design world, Maurice accumulated a number of hard-won lessons. He realized the importance of networking to progress in one’s career, embracing the risks that come with building a team from the ground-up, and nurturing company values that keep teams healthy and inspired for the long-term.

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Mark Levy and Steve Chaparro discuss what it means to create belonging among your employees. They define what “employee experience” actually means and cover best practices for making the switch from traditional HR to human-centered design.

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Steve Chaparro and Diane Domeyer discuss why they believe that optimizing organizational culture should be one of the top priorities of any company. They cover topics such as the antiquated concept of the “career path”, tips for effectively conveying corporate culture to prospective job seekers, things to consider when trying to retain employees at creative companies, and what lessons to take away from the current remote working environment. Stay tuned.

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In this episode of Culture Design Show, Steve Chaparro gets interviewed in his own podcast by John Corcoran of Rise25 where he talks in depth about the leader as a facilitator and as an architect of culture. Listen as he discusses how leaders can espouse a positive and growth-seeking culture in the company, the role of the young generation in reshaping culture, and more. Stay tuned.

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Fellow podcasters Steve Chaparro and Steve Usher interview each other on their respective professional journeys in the world of design. They discuss the drastic changes taking place today in the HR field—to the point that the very term “HR” may soon be deemed outdated—and the new, practical methodologies being introduced in place of traditional, top-down organizational leadership. Stay tuned.

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