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EIC PodcastsFrom crisis to digital reinvention and scale-up success: an interview with Dean Rossiter, MD of Transcar ProjectsIn This Episode - In the latest episode of Survive and Thrive, our host Stuart Broadley, CEO of the Energy Industries Council (EIC), sits down with Dean Rossiter, Managing Director of Transcar Projects. They explore the company’s remarkable transformation journey, overcoming the twin shocks of the pandemic and an oil price collapse. Dean shares how his background in IT enabled him to lead an in-house development team in creating and refining TRANSFREIGHT, a cloud-based logistics operating platform tailored to meet client needs. By focusing on usability, real-time reporting, and seamless integration, the team del...
2025-07-1828 min
Pixelated PathThe Art of Self-Awareness in Design: Insights from Dean BroadleyEpisode DescriptionIn this episode, Chris Abad sits down with Dean Broadley, a design leader who transformed a banking design team of 150+ people and founded Designing Humans. Dean shares his unconventional journey from teenage comic book designer to design leadership, revealing why self-awareness is the missing ingredient in most design teams. Learn why Dean believes mistakes are your greatest assets, how to identify when designers are stuck, and practical techniques to foster growth through reframing and embracing discomfort.About Dean BroadleyDean Broadley is the founder of Designing Humans, a consultancy focused on helping companies build effective design teams...
2025-03-1043 min
SurfacingDean Broadly on Innovation, Gardening, and Growing TeamsIn this episode, Andy and Lisa have a conversation with Dean Broadley. Dean is a South Africa-- based design team lead. He talks about how his wide-ranging experience as a digital practitioner and manager and his love of gardening have given him insights into growing people and teams in an organization. We also get Dean’s perspective on digital innovation and new technology adoption in South Africa. Podcast Transcript About Dean Broadley Dean is a Design Executive from Cape Town, South Africa. He's spent his career working hard to connect experiences in the ph...
2021-03-3159 min
OfferZen PodcastBuilding Tech Team Playbooks That Work, MERGE Conference 2019 PanelOver time every tech team develops playbooks which help them build processes, teams and tech that succeeds. At MERGE Johannesburg, Phillip Barrett from OfferZen got to chat to Ashi Krishnan, Warren Foxley, Ridhwana Khan, and Dean Broadley about the teams they’ve been on. They discussed what didn’t work for their teams as well as how they overcame these challenges to build playbooks that help their teams win. Watch the video, and read the transcript here! (http://bit.ly/2TSy3O5)
2020-02-1700 min
OfferZen PodcastCulture’s Role in Successful Tech Teams, MERGE Conference 2019 PanelOver time, every tech team develops playbooks which help them build processes, teams and software that succeeds. At MERGE Cape Town, Tumi Sineke from OfferZen Foundation got to chat to Ashi Krishnan, Jeremy Edberg, Ridhwana Khan, and Dean Broadley about the teams they’ve been on. They discussed what their teams did that worked - and didn’t - as well as how workplace culture has contributed. Watch the video, and read the transcript here! (http://bit.ly/36mRBg8)
2020-02-0900 min
OfferZen PodcastDean Broadley on Build The Humans, The Product Will Follow, MERGE Conference 2019 PresentationOftentimes, we invest a lot of time and resources into what we build. The tech, the product, the process…We tend to forget that those things are a symptom of the people in our teams and the reason we’re all there in the first place.Equally, we spend little time acknowledging the 'human-ness' of who we are building for and then miss our opportunity to differentiate our products and services in a sustainable way. It therefore makes the most business sense to spend a large portion of your time, effort and awareness on the mind...
2020-02-0700 min
OfferZen Podcast#8 Dean Broadley, Designing Humans: Why Self-Awareness Builds Better TechSouth African tech companies invest a lot of money into their products, but Designing Humans Founder, Dean Broadley, thinks they don’t invest enough time or money into the people who build them. With a focus on building environments and mindsets that encourage ‘humanness’ in tech, Dean shares why he thinks self-awareness is more important than coding ability, how he teaches people to be ‘full-time humans’, and what impact that’s had on his tech teams. Read the blog post here!---------If you’d like t...
2019-11-0500 min