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Chetana Deorah: Leading and designing with intention

Design To Be Conversation

English - August 17, 2021 08:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
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In today’s episode, I speak with Chetana Deorah. Chetana is the Design Director at Coursera that empowers online education worldwide. As a product design leader and mentor, Chetana helps empower human-centered design to achieve high-impact business goals. In her most recent post as Design Director at Netflix, she has led product design for global acquisition and growth for emerging markets. Her career trajectory includes leading design at Yahoo, Scribd and Pentagram. 

We dive into the importance of intentionality, how leading and designing with intention can weave greater purpose into your career, how intention relates to self-awareness, as well as tactical ways of setting intention to create a safe space for yourself and your team to lead to increased productivity and collaboration.