The Learning Lounge

Experiential marketing doesn't get more insane than this. A 270-foot dragon coiled around the Empire State Building made 8 billion impressions in a single campaign . 90,000 square feet of Texas desert turned into HBO's Westworld. 400 drones forming a scannable QR code 300 feet over Austin . 15 landmarks across 14 countries cracked open into the Stranger Things Upside Down in a single night. One ag...

Jean Batthany is one of the most accomplished creative leaders in advertising, marketing & brand building. Our conversation with her was so good, we had to split it into two parts. She was first-ever Chief Creative Officer at Walmart , creative transformer of Disney's in-house agency , founder of The Art of the Pause & pioneer of Regenerative Creativity .  In Part II, Jean opens up to us about the...

Jean Batthany is one of the most accomplished creative leaders in advertising , marketing & brand building . Our conversation with her was so good that we split it into two parts .  She was the first Chief Creative Officer at Walmart & the creative leader who transformed Disney's in-house team into an award-winning agency . She's the founder of The Art of the Pause & the pioneer of Regenerative Cr...

This week on The Learning Lounge , hosts Shruti and Karan Dang sit down with Andrew McKechnie , Head of Business Creative at OpenAI , for a wide-ranging conversation on creative leadership, brand strategy, and what it takes to lead creative work inside one of the most influential companies in tech. Andrew's path is anything but conventional. Raised across Kenya , Indonesia , the Philippines , Sing...

A Trillion. That's how many product data rows Kushal Khatri 's platform processes at Feedonomics , which powers the Fortune 500, global brands, and advertising ecosystems that decide what shows up when you search for literally anything online .  Kushal is an engineering leader and technology executive who spent 15+ years building the kind of infrastructure that makes the internet actually function...

Episode 1 brings us one of the most accomplished executives in entertainment, retail, and brand strategy: Leslie Ferraro , former President & CEO of QVC and HSN (a $9 billion business), former President of Disney Consumer Products , and personal mentor to your hosts, Shruti and Karan Dang . This conversation goes deep. Leslie opens up about growing up one of six sisters, how sports forged her conf...

Welcome to The Learning Lounge ! Where leaders talk about how success actually happens.  The internet celebrates outcomes. It rarely explains the decisions behind them. The Learning Lounge is a podcast hosted by Karan and Shruti Dang , who sit down with founders, operators, and leaders in exciting, innovative industries to unpack the real stories behind their journeys; the doubts, trade-offs, fail...