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Hitting Pause (2022)
User Defenders – UX Design & Personal Growth - March 28, 2022 16:49 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratingsLife and career (re)focus this year have brought me to a place where I need to hit pause on this show's production... Keep fighting the good fight, dear Defender! 👊 Jason linkedin.com/in/jasonogle
#84 Lucie Buisson | Chief Product Officer @ Contentsquare
WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - March 28, 2022 12:48 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn this episode, Lucie Buisson, Chief Product Officer of ContentSquare discusses her transition from being a Customer Success Manager to heading up Product and the lessons she’s learned along the way. Whether it is immersing herself in qualitative or quantitive research or restructuring company ...
Productizing Ideas in the Services Industry with Tim Pröhm, VP at the KellyX Digital Innovation Lab
Better Product - March 22, 2022 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsWith an uptick in challenges like the Great Resignation and remote work, companies who are hiring today must understand people—their users—in order to thrive. Tim Pröhm, vice president at the KellyX Digital Innovation Lab, recognizes this opportunity and is using it to introduce agile product th...
#83 Elyssa Byck | Co-Founder & CEO @ Kindred
WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - March 21, 2022 10:55 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn this episode, Elyssa Byck shares her path from creating her own roles at Buzzfeed to founding her own company, focused on reimagining corporate leadership training and building values-based communities. She talks about how her entrepreneurial upbringing ignited her to be relentless and scrapp...
The Future is People Ops with John Wetzel, Gather
Better Product - March 15, 2022 09:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsImagine a world where every person in a company is understood. They have engaging 1:1s with managers where their voices are heard, and consistent opportunities to connect with their peers—whether they work together or not. This is the future people ops products are building; and, it’s the same f...
#82 Anne Olderog | Senior Partner @ Vivaldi
WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - March 14, 2022 11:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn this episode, Anne Olderog highlights the importance of having a different point of view when it comes to problem-solving — something that’s been essential during her 25-year consulting career, including time at McKinsey, BCG, and Goldman Sachs. She talks about how having a global outlook, le...
#81 Joy Phua | Chief Operating Officer @ Heka Global
WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - March 09, 2022 11:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn today's episode, Joy Phua, Chief Operating Officer at fintech start-up Heka Global, breaks down how she approaches solving multi-billion dollar problems in the financial ecosystem while applying her liberal arts background and hunger for entrepreneurship in the process. The conversation touch...
Series Kick-Off: Power To The People Ops
Better Product - March 08, 2022 10:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsMany employers are coming to a huge realization: there’s power in investing in people. But keeping teams happy, organized, and engaged at work can be easier said than done. That’s why in recent years, dozens of digital products have emerged to give rise to the challenge. So-called people operati...
Growth Design Is More Than Just Another Buzzword
Better Product - March 01, 2022 10:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsGrowth design is a powerful concept. It’s how we bring the goals of product marketing into focus and activate those goals through great design. As Christian puts it, it’s about evolving the areas of your product that grow metrics like revenue and users. But too often, growth design is reduced to...
#80 Sarah Lux-Lee | Founder & CEO @ Mindr Global
WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - February 28, 2022 12:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn today's episode, Sarah Lux-Lee, founder and CEO at Mindr Global, discusses her journey to building out a consultancy and technology platform to help the world's leading workplaces develop their workforces. Sarah's path has always encompassed social impact through her work at the UN's campaign...
#79 Laura Teclemariam | Head of Product Innovation, Animation @ Netflix
WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - February 25, 2022 12:55 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn this week's episode, the WIN/WIN podcast celebrates Black History Month through a conversation with Netflix's Head of Product Innovation, Animation, Laura Teclemariam. Bringing a plethora of innovation roles at companies like Electronic Arts, Tapjoy, Deloitte, and Microsoft as well as experie...
What Platform Strategy Can Teach Us About Product
Better Product - February 22, 2022 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsSome of the most popular digital products today, including the world-recognized FAANG stocks, are platforms. They are spaces that facilitate communication, connection, or a specific activity core to your lifestyle or business—and in almost every case, platforms have succeeded so much because the...
How To Know If Your Product Is Creating A New Category
Better Product - February 15, 2022 10:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsIn today’s digital product landscape, the possibilities seem endless. We’re watching new products emerge to serve completely new categories—many of which, like web3 and the decentralized internet, have yet to be totally defined. Finding the answers and taking charge of a new product category, Ch...
#78 Brittany Driscoll | Founder & CEO @ Squeeze
WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - February 14, 2022 12:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn this week's episode, Zoia is joined by Brittany Driscoll, Co-founder & CEO of Squeeze, a completely fresh approach to a way better massage experience, brought to you by the founders of Drybar. The conversation covers the importance of creating delight in commoditized experiences in order to i...
How Community Inspires Product with Sly Tanenbaum, Urvin Finance
Better Product - February 08, 2022 10:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsOne year ago, an online movement on Reddit led GameStop stock to skyrocket. The moment awakened a widespread conversation about retail investment, meme stocks, and who actually has power over the markets. Now, everyday retail investors are demanding more transparency and education in investing—a...
#77 Lisa Wang | Crypto Brand Advisor & Investor, Board Member @ Fast Company
WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - February 07, 2022 15:45 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn this week's episode, we hear from Lisa Wang, a board member and contributor to Fast Company, Forbes 30 Under 30 recipient, and former Head of Brand and Communications at Republic. Lisa actively invests in the crypto space as well as advises blockchain companies on establishing their brands an...
The Questions To Ask Before Showing Off Your Product
Better Product - February 01, 2022 14:08 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsTo show—or not to show—your software is a question we hear a lot working in digital product. It’s not only a big question with many answers, but one with high stakes that ultimately depends on many intersecting parts of your product process. As inspired by a LinkedIn post from Wynter’s Peep Laj...
#76 Cara Shortsleeve | CEO @ The Leadership Consortium
WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - January 31, 2022 18:37 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn this week’s episode, we hear from Cara Shortsleeve, who is CEO at The Leadership Consortium, a leadership development company that helps organizations create the conditions for all leaders to accelerate and thrive. Pulling from over ten years at Google, her tenure at Morgan Stanley, as well a...
The Future of Social Media is “Anti-Social Media” Products - Part 2 with Emma Bates, Diem
Better Product - January 25, 2022 10:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsSocial media has been called “the people’s platform.” But for all its benefits to the public, many challenges still exist. Misinformation is widespread, and for women & non-binary users, harassment is a common experience. Emma Bates, the co-founder & CEO of Diem, a “social universe” for women & n...
The Future of Social Media is “Anti-Social Media” Products - Part 2 with Emma Bates, Diem
Better Product - January 25, 2022 10:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsSocial media has been called “the people’s platform.” But for all its benefits to the public, many challenges still exist. Misinformation is widespread, and for women & non-binary users, harassment is a common experience. Emma Bates, the co-founder & CEO of Diem, a “social universe” for women & ...
#75 Neetu Rajpal | Chief Technology Officer @ Oscar Health
WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - January 18, 2022 12:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn this episode, Neetu Rajpal shares how her passion for problem-solving led her to study computer science and her time navigating an 18+ year career at Microsoft — starting with Internet Explorer 3. She talks about finding her voice as a woman in STEM, employing her identity as an immigrant to ...
Square, Block, and the Impact of Your Product Name
Better Product - January 18, 2022 10:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsChanging a company or product name in a rebrand is a big decision. That’s because renames are usually seen as a way to cement a changed identity. But what if we told you that names are only as valuable as what we build around them? We’re exploring the concept through the recent Square-to-Block ...
The Future of Social Media is “Anti-Social Media” Products - Part 1
Better Product - January 11, 2022 10:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsSocial media is one of the most popular and well-used kinds of digital products out there—but of course, it’s not without its problems. That’s why we’re talking about a new trend in the social media world, where digital product creators are building alternatives to the Facebooks and Twitters of ...
#74 Anastasia Leng | Founder & CEO @ CreativeX
WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - January 10, 2022 12:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn this episode, Anastasia Leng recounts her journey from working on an ad product team at Google to bootstrapping a business and finding her way to becoming a CEO. She talks about how a side-project turned into a company, navigating through receiving “nos” at over 100 investor meetings, and how...
#73 Vanessa Liu | Entrepreneur, ex-Vice President @ SAP.io
WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - January 03, 2022 12:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn this episode, Vanessa Liu talks about how working on building digital products at McKinsey spurred her to want to run businesses herself; thinking about her career as an opportunity for creating a diverse portfolio. She shares her approach to generating access for underrepresented founders th...
#72 Renan Gutman | Executive Vice President, Product @ Kaltura
WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - December 27, 2021 09:01 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn this week’s episode, Renan Gutman talks about her trajectory to becoming a product leader and what she believes to be innovative product leadership, especially in her role as Executive Vice President, Product. She shares what it was like to move from a large-scale company such as Microsoft to...
2021’s Shift To Opportunity-Focused Innovation
Better Product - December 21, 2021 10:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratingsWe saw a LOT happen in product in 2021. After digital products responded to the immediate problems of 2020, this year, we saw them innovate on unexplored opportunities, build communities, and in some cases, just have fun. Today’s episode brings us Meghan & Christian’s observations from the year,...
#71 Jil Dasher | Managing Director @ Corsica Partners
WIN/WIN: Women in Innovation - December 20, 2021 09:25 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsIn this episode, Jil Dasher, Managing Director at Corsica Partners, explains how she transitioned her skill set from leading in the events planning space for over a decade to tackling a new career opportunity in executive search. She talks about summoning her inner Nancy Drew and love of learnin...
Product Goes Public With Justin Bauer, Amplitude Analytics
Better Product - December 14, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 51 ratings2021 was the year cookies died, and the year the public started paying more attention to how their data was being used online. These movements also introduced new considerations for product leaders who rely on data to make their digital products better and informed by users. Take it from Just...
How Do I Translate UX Research Into Designs? w/ Darshan Gajara
The Product Design Report - December 14, 2021 05:05 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsDarshan Gajara is Head of Design at GraphCMS and creator of Product Disrupt. In this episode, we discuss how to take insights you glean from UX research and turn them into actual designs. We talk about: Make sure your design and research reports are clear and story-based so others have the rig...
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