For 15 years, Kelly Campbell owned her own digital agency, weathering the usual ups and downs while also starting her own holistic health and wellness platform. After selling both companies, she today helps digital shops to hone in on four focus areas and transform their businesses. Tune in to hear Kelly share her take on the two biggest challenges agencies face and why it’s important that owners put their oxygen masks on first.
Aaron Draplin always has a record on. Over the course of a day, he chops away at his to-do list, working away in his backyard studio until the late hours of the evening. So what keeps one of the most respected designers in the industry going? Aaron joins us to talk about Pretty Much Everything, from Dylan to Shepard Fairey, getting your priorities straight and working the crowd. Warning: This podcast contains strong and hilarious language.
After working in the CMS industry, Leslie Camacho kept coming back to an idea for a consulting service that gave agencies better decision making data. At Owner Summit, he connected with a Dutch company called VOGSY that was bringing that idea to life. Today, as VP of Customer Services at VOGSY, Leslie is helping digital shops to gain visibility into what is and isn’t working. Leslie joins us to talk about business intelligence and how shops are getting smarter.
From VapoRub to Pampers and Swiffer, P&G has been innovating for over 180 years. Today, they’re out to reinvent the way they connect and deliver value to consumers via digital. At the center of this ambitious vision is an internal agency called Alchemy. Paul Armstrong, Alchemy’s Head of Design, shares how Alchemy came about, what led him to join and what might be next as the global behemoth continues to reimagine our day-to-day as we know it.
With a solid reputation for video, web, mobile and other digital solutions, Crush & Lovely has shifted its focus to high-level strategy with execution. Not just for a project or team, but across entire companies. CEO & Co-founder Matt Blanchard and Managing Director Mazin Melegy join us to talk about what an impact agency is, and how Crush & Lovely fulfills a vital business need.
You got into design because you love the work. But now, as a design leader, your job is running a team, running projects, operating out of habit and responsibility. As the gap between how you spend your day and what's most important to you widens, you start to feel more and more burned out. Clinical psychologist and author Dr. Sherry Walling has tips to help you mitigate the effects of burnout. Tune in to find out how you can add more interest and meaning to your work.
What does it take to be a great design leader? Ask Alastair Simpson, Head of Design at Atlassian, and his answers may surprise you. To Alastair, great leadership—and great design—come down to communication. Tune in to learn more about his leadership approach, how direct feedback can make you a better leader and the importance of having a real life outside of your job.
Get a bunch of Harvard grads together, and amazing things are bound to happen. That’s certainly true of DEV, the web and app development arm of Harvard Student Agencies. DEV’s Chief Helpfulness Officer Spencer Tiberi joins us to talk about DEV as a multi-million dollar non-profit: how the organization is turning profits into scholarships, and what it’s like working in an “almost chaotic” environment. Tune in to learn more about DEV, the nature of their business and where they’re headed next.
How can we help people access experiences, and how do we end up blocking people from critical services and information, such as medical records, legal systems or education? As the Head of Practices at Pluralsight, Mariah often asks herself this question. Mariah joins us to talk about awareness and aptitude, identifying blind spots and asking for help when it feels like you might be missing something.
Why do so many of us struggle to work together across our teams? Vivian Sarratt, Head of UX Operations at Google, joins us to spill some of the secrets of successful collaboration at Google. Tune in to explore the complicated relationships in cross-functional teams and strategies to make working together work.
