Facilitating epiphanies for over 20 years.

Ed Catmull is the Founder and former CEO at Pixar, and former CEO of Disney Animation Studios. He dives deep into some of the ideas that he shared in his book Creativity Inc., so you can expect a real masterclass on the creative process and how this translates to high-level teams.

Teresa Amabile is a leading creativity researcher at Harvard Business School, focusing on how workplace environments influence innovation. Diego Rodriguez, a former IDEO partner, is an innovation strategist renowned for his expertise in design thinking and product development. Both bring valuable insights to the podcast on fostering creativity in organizations.

Diana is an advisor to exceptional leaders, and has worked with over 1000 organizational leaders and many of their teams. She has created and implemented professional onboarding and ongoing programs—based on the comprehensive body of work she developed with CLG co-founder Jim Dethmer—with clients such as Asana and Esalen.

Marcus Hollinger is an award-winning marketer, innovation designer, and entrepreneur with a decade-long career. He led marketing at Reach Records, achieving Grammy-winning campaigns and a #1 Billboard 200 album in 2019. He coaches at Stanford d.School and serves as Senior Director of Innovation at Stoked. His coffee company, Portrait Coffee, was named Georgia's best by Food and Wine Magazine.

Josh Ruff is an innovation leader with experience at Hyatt and Stanford d.school. As Senior Director at Stoked, he helps teams reimagine their work processes. He specializes in guiding client teams from prototyping to product launch. Notably, his team at a Fortune 50 company won the CEO Award for Innovation for addressing postpartum support.

This is a special sneak peek at a new collaborative effort I’m undertaking with entrepreneur Henrik Werdelin, called “Beyond the Prompt,” where we explore the intersection of AI and business.

In this first episode, Henrik and I sit down with Greg Shove, CEO of edtech disruptor Section, to discuss the emergence of the AI class and the role of technology in redefining education in the future.

It’s a fascinating preview into a whole new world.

Billy Oppenheimer is a writer and research assistant based in Austin, TX. He is hands-down my favorite follow on the internet, and I'm delighted to showcase his incredible craft and insight.

In June 2018, Billy cold emailed his favorite writer, thanked him for his work, then offered to work for him for free. 6 months later, he was hired full time as a research and writing assistant. Since then, he's helped and observed Ryan Holiday research, write, edit, publish, and market 5 books, grow his email lists by 500,000+ subscribers, and publish an article a week read by who knows how many people.

After delving deep into the psychology of belief in "How Minds Change," best-selling author and acclaimed podcaster David McRaney has set his journalistic sights on understanding the nature of true genius.

We invited him to speak to Transformative Design, a graduate course at Stanford. Here's a sneak peek into the intimate classroom conversation.

Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, renowned for her research on psychological safety over twenty years. Her award-winning work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Psychology Today, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and more. Named by Thinkers50 in 2021 as the #1 Management Thinker in the world, Edmondson’s TED Talk “How to Turn a Group of Strangers into a Team” has been viewed over three million times. She received her PhD, AM, and AB from Harvard University. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is the author of Right Kind of Wrong, The Fearless Organization, and Teaming.

Rita McGrath is a best-selling author, a sought-after advisor and speaker, and a longtime professor at Columbia Business School. Rita is one of the world’s top experts on strategy and innovation and is consistently ranked among the top 10 management thinkers in the world, including the #1 award for strategy by Thinkers50. McGrath’s recent book on strategic inflection points is Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019). Rita is the author of four other books, including the best-selling The End of Competitive Advantage (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013).

In THINK FASTER, TALK SMARTER communication expert, Stanford lecturer, and host of the popular podcast, "Think Fast, Talk Smart," Matt Abrahams provides tangible, actionable skills to help even the most anxious of speakers succeed when communicating and speaking spontaneously. Thinking faster and talking smarter Abrahams argues is not an innate skill that requires natural talent, and can actually be learned through preparation and practice. He provides science-based strategies for managing anxiety, responding to the mood of the room, and communicating in concise, relevant, compelling, and memorable ways regardless of the audience.