In this Talent Tales episode, talent.imperative Founder Nicole Dessain had the honor to interview Adam Cochrane, a Senior Product Designer at Zalando in Berlin, Germany.
Adam’s superpower is “thinking in a service mindset” and bringing people together over the customer journey.
Adam’s interest in ritual design stems from his religious upbringing in Australia where he learned how powerful rituals can be in bringing people together and uniting them around a shared vision.
In this Talent Tales episode, talent.imperative Founder Nicole Dessain had the honor to interview Lee Kim, the Global Congress Lead PIH & Innovation at Pfizer.
Lee’s superpower is jumping off a cliff and not knowing what’s going to happen.
Lee is a mechanical engineer by training who pivoted to design thinking seven years ago. This transition came with a lot of self-reflection around how to interact with people differently and develop solutions in new ways.
In this Talent Tales episode, talent.imperative Founder Nicole Dessain had the honor to interview Diana Marchese, the Director of People Experience at Snyk.
Diana’s superpower is taking ambiguous ideas, clarify them, and then turn them into tangible results.
Diana shares that she entered the design thinking world as an art teacher. She feels as though she organically applied a design thinking mindset when collaborating with her students and thinking holistically about the experience of the student. In 2015, Diana pivoted her career and moved into the field of workplace experience. She realized that students and adults have the same needs and wants: to be heard, to feel safe, and to have an impact.
Diana joined her current company, Snyk, in January of 2020 - right before the pandemic hit. She spent her onboarding months helping to transition the company to a virtual organization.
In this Talent Tales episode, talent.imperative Founder Nicole Dessain had the honor to interview Damon Deaner, the Director of Employee Experience & Design at IBM.
Damon’s superpower is blending design and technology. He now applies his superpower by using design and tech to enable people experience.
Damon started his journey in design thinking in 2012 when IBM announced that they would bring design back and build a culture of design thinking. Damon joined the newly formed design organization and helped bring developers, engineers, and designers together to use design thinking. From there, he ended up leading all design talent at IBM and conducted several employee lifecycle projects. That caught the attention of the CHRO and eventually Damon was asked to join the HR team to build an employee experience practice.
