Sense Making. Making Sense.

In this episode, Alison sits with filmmaker and storyteller Elaine Del Valle, whose debut feature Brownsville Bred captures the beauty and brutality of growing up in 1980s Brooklyn.

This episode explores the edges of uncertainty with Jessie Shefrin — a conversation about wandering, testing, stumbling, and ultimately emerging into new clarity.

In the final episode of season one, Jacqui and Alison celebrate making it through an entire first season during the midst of a global pandemic, economic crisis, and the Black Lives Matter movement. They reflect on the times with Quinnton Harris, his journey, and the importance of Juneteenth not just as a day, or a moment, but a call for organizational change.

In this episode, Jacqui and Alison go broad and extensive (and somewhat meandering ) about future opportunity areas for Design Operations and how we, as design leaders, can lead the charge in laying the groundwork for that future.

In episode 10 Jacqui and Alison begin to dig into the current state of Design Operations – the agony, and the ecstasy.

In this episode, Matt Abrahams chats with us about how to be more mindful of how we communicate and bring intention to our daily interactions. We also ask him how we, as hosts, could talk a Lil less and land subject matter a Lil more.

How do we, as Design leaders, continue to balance the present need, with the future state – in service of business needs to change and evolve in order to remain relevant.

Businesses are trying to implement Design Thinking & Human-Centered Design – the struggle is real.

Connie Liu is here to tell us designing a better world isn’t going to come from textbooks. We have to meet people where they are, give them the tools to think differently, empower them to be the change they want to see, and change the face of the mirrortocracy.

How do we remove the stigma about what it takes to make an impact? The good stuff happens when people stop being polite…and start getting real.