Designing Schools

"The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.” Steven Pressfield This week I want to share stories and strategies for overcoming the fear of failure and how we can embrace change in our lives and in the workplace. A few months back I had the pleasure of being interviewed by my good friend Michael Hernandez. His podcast, Change the Narrative, is one of my abs...

Our lives are defined by the conversations we can or cannot have. Pause. Read that again - our lives are defined by the conversations we can or cannot have.  From the bedroom to the boardroom and in all the hallways in between we design conversations with others daily. Not only do we have conversations with others, there is an ongoing conversation happening all the time, perhaps the most important...

His mantra is don’t make a living, design a life. This isn’t coming from an individual who is reflecting back upon their life and sharing advice, this is coming from 22 year old Jordan Paris who is designing a life that most would envy and he is here today to share his story and strategies for how you can do so as well.  Jordan is an author, entrepreneur and podcaster who has been featured in Forb...

When people think about design thinking, it’s often in reference to the creation of new products and services. However, when you begin to adopt design thinking practices in different areas of your life you begin to develop a design mindset. IDEO identifies 8 mindsets that are fundamental to building the mindset muscle so that you can enhance and develop your ability to think like a designer. Desig...

How will you navigate the GPS of your career? Whether you are about to enter the world of work or if you are already in it, you know it’s a road filled with digital disruptions acting as blind spots along the way. As Jim Marous shares in this episode, change is happening faster than ever before yet it will never happen this slowly again. It can be challenging in times like this to stay relevant an...

What is happening?  Where is it happening? Why is it happening?    These are the three questions Dr. Tomi Kauppinen believes everyone should be asking when making sense of the world around them. Today I’m talking with Tomi about how we can all become better storytellers through what he calls information visualization.   Tomi is a professor of information visualization and cognitive systems at Aalt...

It is with great enthusiasm that I introduce you to Matthew Manos. He doesn’t just practice at the intersection of design, technology, entrepreneurship and innovation, he teaches you how as well.    He is an award winning design strategist, founder and managing director of VeryNice, a design strategy firm that designs and facilitates workshops for creative problem solving.    He’s also the assista...

Are the skills we need to thrive in a rapidly changing world ones that we have had all along? Is it that we need to learn new skills or do we need to unlearn old ones? In this episode with Duncan Wardle, former VP of Creativity and Innovation at Disney and international speaker on design thinking, shares the four skills he believes you already have that a machine cannot replace - creativity, intui...

Cultures of innovation begin with a culture of empathy. How do you create them, how do you sustain them and how do you help people develop the skills and mindsets to thrive within them. These are the questions people Ask MsQ and this is the place where she brings you stories and strategies from researchers and practitioners using design thinking to be more creative as they unlock opportunities and...