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How We Future with Lisa Kay SolomonJournalist Jennifer Brandel: Strengthening the Connective Tissue between UsThe future is being built in the spaces most of us never learned to see.In this episode, Lisa talks with journalist and entrepreneur Jennifer Brandel. Jennifer is the co-founder of Zebras Unite, and creator of the Interstitium, a theory of the hidden connective work that keeps communities, movements, and systems alive. Jenn has spent her career naming the “in-between” roles that make change possible and giving shape to the people who do them.They explore:The Interstitium Jen’s new framework for the unseen connective tissue of societyHexagon people those who bridge local life a...
2025-12-0942 min
How We Future with Lisa Kay SolomonStanford Water Polo Coach John Tanner: Training Champions for LifeGreat coaches train better people, not just better athletes.Coach John Tanner (JT) is about to start his 29th season as the Stanford women’s water polo coach. On this episode of How We Future, JT and Lisa explore how coaching goes far beyond the pool. Over decades of leading championship teams, JT has developed a coaching style that focuses on resilience, communication skills, and the value of practice.He helps athletes become confident, empathetic, and thoughtful leaders. Whether it’s having his athletes make TED Talks for each other or facilitating weekly check-ins about how...
2025-12-0242 min
How We Future with Lisa Kay SolomonFood Maven Dana Cowin: How Joy can Save the PlanetPleasure isn’t the enemy of sustainability. It might be the path to it.Today, Lisa Kay Solomon is joined by Dana Cowin, longtime Food & Wine editor-in-chief, storytelling innovator, and founder of Progressive Hedonist, to talk about how creativity, curiosity, and continual reinvention shape a meaningful life.From leading one of the most influential food magazines in the world to uplifting underrepresented voices and sustainable culinary practices, Dana has spent her career expanding our understanding of what “good food” means.You’ll learn:Why reinvention is less about starting over and more about li...
2025-11-2535 min
How We Future with Lisa Kay SolomonLeadership Expert Caroline Webb: How to Have a Good Day (backed by science!)The science of a good day is also the science of a better future.This week’s episode of How We Future with Lisa Kay Solomon features Caroline Webb: leadership coach, behavioral science expert, McKinsey Senior Advisor, and bestselling author of How to Have a Good Day.Caroline’s work sits at the intersection of neuroscience, psychology, and practical leadership. She shares how we can prepare for chaotic times and gain agency by understanding the ways our brains handle uncertainty, stress, and decision-making.You’ll learn:Why attention is your most p...
2025-11-1838 min
How We Future with Lisa Kay SolomonFutures Facilitator Jeff Rogers: Prototyping Futures Through Play and GamesWhat if the future makes more sense when we treat it like a game?In this episode of How We Future, Lisa Kay Solomon is joined by Jeffrey Rogers—futures facilitator, lifelong learner, and co-founder of PROJECTORY—to explore how play, prospection, and curiosity help people prepare for inevitable uncertainty. Jeff is an expert at designing experiences, workshops, and games that help leaders feel the future, not just think about it.Together, Lisa and Jeff unpack why the future is “too important to leave to the futurists,” and how all of us can build their capacity...
2025-11-1135 min
How We Future with Lisa Kay SolomonNext Gen Leader Zoë Jenkins: Building Attachment Through Trust in an Unattached WorldIs trust the foundation of the future?In this episode of How We Future, Lisa Kay Solomon sits down with Zoë Jenkins, Director of Civic Trust and Recruitment at Civics Unplugged, to talk about how the next generation is reimagining democracy from the ground up.Zoë’s journey started early—she joined Civics Unplugged as a high school fellow, went on to write her own job description fresh out of college, and now leads programs helping young people build community through civic trust, a term you’ll learn all about in this episode.Zoë and...
2025-11-0444 min
How We Future with Lisa Kay SolomonActor Ahmed Best: How Imagination and “The Force” Can Shape the FutureHow do we reclaim our imagination as a force for freedom?You might know Ahmed Best from his role as Jar Jar Binks in the Star Wars universe– He is also the creator of AfroRithms from the Future and a lifelong champion of imagination as liberation. From the streets of the South Bronx to the worlds of the Jedi, Ahmed has spent his life proving that creativity can rewrite what’s possible.You'll learn:Why imagination isn’t a luxury—it’s a rightHow watching the birth of hip-hop in the 70’s taught him that the fut...
2025-10-2853 min
How We Future with Lisa Kay SolomonImproviser Dan Klein: Setting Your Partner Up for SuccessWhen you celebrate failure loudly enough, you stop fearing it.In this episode, Lisa sits down with Dan Klein, improviser, Stanford lecturer, and master of helping people unlock creativity through play. Dan has spent two decades teaching improv at Stanford, and his work goes far beyond the stage—it's about listening, adapting, and building something together in real time.You'll discover:How celebrating failure (loudly and cheerfully) can transform teamsThe "oh, good" principle: finding opportunity in whatever comes your wayWhy your job is to make your partner look like a geniusHow practicing flexibility in lo...
2025-10-2135 min
How We Future with Lisa Kay SolomonLeadership Coach Rae Ringel: Finding Power and Presence Amid AmbiguityWhat if the key to leading better isn't doing more—it's getting clearer about what you can actually control?In this first episode of How We Future with Lisa Kay Solomon, Lisa is joined by leadership coach Rae Ringel to talk about showing up authentically in “swirly” times. Rae has spent decades helping C-suite leaders and teams become their best selves, and she's sharing the tools that actually work.You'll learn:Why "for now is not forever" is the mantra you need right nowHow to spot the unarticulated request behind every complaintSimple reframes that can ch...
2025-10-1442 min
How We Future with Lisa Kay SolomonComing Soon- How We Future with Lisa Kay SolomonWhat if the future doesn’t have to be something that just happens to you? Welcome to How We Future with Lisa Kay Solomon, where we flip the script on how we think about tomorrow. Drawing on 25 years as an educator, author, and strategic designer at Stanford's d.school and beyond, Lisa makes a compelling case: we don't have to just brace for the future. We get a say in how it unfolds.Coming up on the show:An NCAA-winning coach on being a good teammate off the courtA Star Wars Jedi master on us...
2025-10-0901 min
SustentaíCast#33 - Sustentabilidade e Design ThinkingQual é a importância do design thinking para a sustentabilidade?No episódio de hoje, Julianna fala um pouco sobre sua experiência com planejamento estratégico na área de sustentabilidade, e como a técnica do design thinking auxilia na criação de modelos de negócio sustentáveis. Indicação de livro da Julianna: "Planeje melhor o seu negócio", de Justin Lokitz, Lisa Kay Solomon e Patrick Van der PijlSite indicado no episódio: https://designabetterbusiness.com/Vem pro Sustentaí A...
2025-09-0409 min
Humanity At Scale: Redefining LeadershipWaving the Magic Wand: 14 Leaders Reimagine More Human OrganizationsIn this special episode of Humanity at Scale, Bruce Temkin brings together the voices of 14 past guests, each answering the same powerful question: If you could wave a magic wand, what would you change to make organizations more humanity-centric? From rethinking leadership structures to elevating empathy, their answers reveal four core values that can redefine how we lead. It’s a fast-moving, thought-provoking journey through bold ideas, personal insights, and a shared vision for more human organizations.Tune in as Bruce and his guests explore:Faisal Hoque on why the greatest leadership ski...
2025-08-0716 min
Leveraging Thought LeadershipTurning frameworks into funding: The hard truth about scaling thought leadership | Lisa Kay SolomonWhat if you could design the future — instead of reacting to it? In today's episode of Leveraging Thought Leadership, Peter Winick sits down with futurist and design strategist Lisa Kay Solomon to explore how leaders can use design thinking to actively shape what's next. Lisa is a Designer-in-Residence at Stanford's d.school, an educator, a bestselling author, and a respected voice on the Thinkers50 Radar list. She helps leaders and organizations make better long-term decisions in a short-term world. Her superpower? Turning vague uncertainty into actionable insight — by teaching leaders how to think like futurists.
2025-07-1715 min
The Future Is HowThe Future is HOW – Best Of: HOW to Grow Your FutureToday in The Future Is How: Frederik's Summer Best-of Special: "Growing Your Future" Welcome to a very special summer edition of The Future is How. Frederik wants to take you on a walk through a different kind of garden. This garden has rich soil made of powerful questions, strong trellises of trust, flowing channels of communication, and restorative greenhouses of rest. But it's also alive with the buzz of cross-pollinating bees, nourished by both sunshine and rain, enriched by compost that transforms challenges into growth, and tended by a community that understands how every element supports the...
2025-07-1148 min
The Academic LifeMoments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations That Accelerate ChangeIn our fast-changing world, leaders are increasingly confronted by messy, multifaceted challenges that require collaboration to resolve. But the standard methods for tackling these challenges—meetings packed with data-drenched presentations or brainstorming sessions that circle back to nowhere—just don’t deliver. Great strategic conversations generate breakthrough insights by combining the best ideas of people with different backgrounds and perspectives. In Moments of Impact, two experts “crack the code” on what it takes to design creative, collaborative problem-solving sessions that soar rather than sink. Drawing on decades of experience as innovation strategists—and supported by cutting-edge social science research, dozens of rea...
2025-06-121h 01
New Books in Business, Management, and MarketingMoments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations That Accelerate ChangeIn our fast-changing world, leaders are increasingly confronted by messy, multifaceted challenges that require collaboration to resolve. But the standard methods for tackling these challenges—meetings packed with data-drenched presentations or brainstorming sessions that circle back to nowhere—just don’t deliver. Great strategic conversations generate breakthrough insights by combining the best ideas of people with different backgrounds and perspectives. In Moments of Impact, two experts “crack the code” on what it takes to design creative, collaborative problem-solving sessions that soar rather than sink. Drawing on decades of experience as innovation strategists—and supported by cutting-edge social science research, dozens of rea...
2025-06-121h 01
Work For HumansHow to Design the Future On Purpose | Lisa Kay SolomonLisa Kay Solomon sees design everywhere—not just in products, but in conversations, strategies, systems, and futures. As a futurist and strategist, she has spent her career helping leaders and organizations think long-term, navigate uncertainty, and drive meaningful change through intentional design. In this episode, Lisa and Dart talk about how to lead with imagination in uncertain times, why good strategy needs emotional engagement, and how design can be a form of applied hope. They also explore what leaders can learn from scenario planning, the surprising lessons of an early GNC wellness experiment, and how future-readiness starts wit...
2025-06-101h 01
Verandervuur#5 Momentum voor veranderingIs er zoiets als het juiste moment om verandering te initiëren?Hoe weet je dat een systeem niet langer houdbaar is?Het juiste momentum aanvoelen en inzetten is cruciaal, om transitie te doen slagen. In deze episode leer je alles over signalen waaraan je merkt dat een bepaald systeem niet langer houdbaar is, en hoe belangrijk het is om voorbereid te zijn op het momentum waar echte systeemverandering mogelijk wordt. Vermeld tijdens de aflevering:Checklist: Ontdek of er een “Momentum voor verandering” is in jouw systeemBoe...
2025-06-0540 min
Insights UnlockedImagining the future: Why leaders need more than vision to succeed with Lisa Kay SolomonEpisode web page: https://bit.ly/4dDbMuy
In this thought-provoking episode of Insights Unlocked, Jason Giles sits down with Lisa Kay Solomon—designer in residence at Stanford’s d.school, bestselling author, and strategic foresight expert—to explore how leaders can better prepare for an uncertain and rapidly evolving future.
Lisa shares insights from her 20+ years in scenario planning and design, reflecting on the transformative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and how it highlighted the critical need for imagination, empathy, and long-term thinking in leadership. She discusses the value of futures thinking in education and business, emphasizing how an...
2025-06-0246 min
Workplace Stories by RedThread ResearchWhy Your Strategic Plan Might Be Trapping You, with Lisa Kay Solomon and Jeffrey RogersMost leadership development still clings to certainty, quarterly goals, strategic plans, official futures etched in stone. But what if that mindset isn’t just outdated, it’s dangerous? In this episode, Dani Johnson and Stacia Garr sit down with futurists and experience designers Lisa Kay Solomon and Jeff Rogers, two minds helping rewire how leaders think about the future, not as a distant unknown, but as a daily design challenge. What unfolds is a conversation that’s as practical as it is provocative, revealing how our obsession with predictability might be blinding us to the signals we most need to see.
2025-05-2048 min
Humanity At Scale: Redefining LeadershipDesigning The Future: How to Be a Good Ancestor with Lisa Kay SolomonWhat if you could actively shape the future instead of just reacting to it?In this episode of Humanity at Scale, host Bruce Temkin is joined by Lisa Kay Solomon, Designer in Residence at Stanford’s d.school, for a powerful conversation about leading with imagination in an era of disruption. Together, they explore how leaders can actively shape the future by cultivating foresight, ethical decision-making, and human-centered design. Lisa shares actionable frameworks, like the “Design Criteria” and “Must, Should, Could, Won’t,” to help leaders move beyond reactive strategies and foster possibility thinking. Learn how to become a better anc...
2025-05-1546 min
The Future Is HowHarnessing the power of imagination to create a better future | Lisa Kay Solomon (Stanford)In today’s episode of The Future is How, futurist Lisa Kay Solomon joins me. Lisa is a designer in residence at the Stanford d.school. Lisa focuses on bridging the disciplines of futures and design thinking, creating experiences like “Vote by Design: Presidential Edition” and "The Future’s Happening" to help students learn and practice the skills they don’t yet know they need. At the d.school, she teaches classes such as Inventing the Future, where students imagine, debate, and analyze the 50-year futures of emerging tech.
In our conversation today, Lisa emphasizes the importance of being fu...
2025-02-0756 min
Get Hooked On This Next-Level Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.Design a Better Business: New Tools, Skills, and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation by Justin Lokitz, Patrick Van Der Pijl, Lisa Kay SolomonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/794479to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Design a Better Business: New Tools, Skills, and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation
Author: Justin Lokitz, Patrick Van Der Pijl, Lisa Kay Solomon
Narrator: William Sarris
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Release date: August 27, 2024
Genres: Business & Career Development
Publisher's Summary:
This book stitches together a complete design journey from beginning to end, guiding listeners (you) step-by-step in a practical way from the initial spark of an idea all the way to scaling it into a better business. Design a Better Business includes a comprehensive set of tools (over...
2024-08-276h 27Download Latest Full Audiobooks in Business & Economics, Business & Career DevelopmentDesign a Better Business: New Tools, Skills, and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation by Justin Lokitz, Patrick Van Der Pijl, Lisa Kay SolomonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/794479to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Design a Better Business: New Tools, Skills, and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation
Author: Justin Lokitz, Patrick Van Der Pijl, Lisa Kay Solomon
Narrator: William Sarris
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 6 hours 27 minutes
Release date: August 27, 2024
Genres: Business & Career Development
Publisher's Summary:
This book stitches together a complete design journey from beginning to end, guiding listeners (you) step-by-step in a practical way from the initial spark of an idea all the way to scaling it into a better business. Design a Better Business includes a comprehensive set of tools (over...
2024-08-276h 27
The Conversation FactoryLeadership is Designing Moments of ImpactToday my guests are Lisa Kay Solomon and Chris Ertel, the co-authors of the powerhouse 2014 book Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations That Accelerate Change, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year! I devoured this book 10 years ago and I think you might enjoy it, too! Lisa Kay Solomon is currently a Designer in Residence at the Stanford d. school, where she teaches classes such as Inventing the Future where students imagine, debate and analyze the 50-year futures of emerging tech, and works closely with the K12 community to make futures thinking a mainstay of 21...
2024-05-151h 05
New View EDUHelping Students Shape Dynamic FuturesEpisode 56: Helping Students Shape Dynamic FuturesHow many of us have taken a history class? What about a class on the future? Or a class on how to navigate ambiguity? These are the kinds of educational experiences Lisa Kay Solomon urges us to design for our students, as we prepare them for an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world. Guest: Lisa Kay SolomonResources, Transcript, and Expanded Show NotesIn This Episode:“I'll start off and talk about futures thinking and I'll say, so how many peo...
2024-04-1645 min
How To Citizen with BaratundeA How to Citizen Huddle (Coach Steve Kerr & Friends)Whether you’re a sports fanatic, or you’ve never stepped foot on a court or field—there’s a lot we can learn about citizening from the lens of coaches and athletes. To show us how sports can help us with teamwork, discipline, and a sense of play in our citizening efforts— Baratunde is joined by Steve Kerr, head coach of the NBA championship-winning Golden State Warriors and relentless advocate for gun violence prevention, along with Dr. Kensa Gunter, a clinical and sports psychologist, and Jamie Zaninovich, the Deputy Commissioner & COO of the Pac-12 Conference. SHOW ACTI...
2023-04-1338 min
The Round Table: A YVote PodcastCitizening is a Full Contact SportAt this week's Round Table, Kenisha, Madeline, and Ava spoke with Lisa Kay Solomon, writer, Associate Professor and Designer in Residence at Stanford Institute of Design, and Co-founder of All Vote, No Play, exploring sports, civics, social change, and the interconnections between them. Lisa teaches an incredibly popular class on futures thinking at Stanford and is also a passionate public educator, spreading the civic gospel well beyond the classroom and onto the courts and playing fields of America. While Lisa is a trained futurist, she emphasizes that thinking about the future is a skill set we all can learn—and...
2022-12-2337 min
The Learning Future Podcast with Louka ParryDebrief of dschool spotlight & announcement of Season 7!Louka reflects on the last season the "d.school Spotlight" that featured 10 insightful authors affiliated with the Hasso Platner Institute of Design at Stanford. Please revisit any these season 6 episodes that pique your interest: ‘My Favorite Failure’ with Laura McBain & Ron BeGhetto Spotify - Apple‘Navigating Ambiguity’ with Kelly SchmutteSpotify - Apple ‘The Secret Language of Maps’ with Carissa CarterSpotify - Apple‘Drawing on Courage’ with Ashish GoelSpotify - Apple‘Design for Belonging’ with Susie WiseSpotify - Apple‘Changing the Conversat...
2022-11-2419 min
Diary of a Business DesignerChallenging the status quoHave you ever started a new job and went to listen to someone’s pride product or sat in on a management meeting and thought .. oh no this is a nightmare, its cringeworthy, fallen behind and just terrible!
Yet everyone else is nodding like its the emperor’s new clothes, that everything is fine and alright because the boss has deemed it so, or its always worked this way?
So how do you change the status quo? Let me share my 5 tips to being the change agent no matter what level you work at in any organisation.
Key takeaways
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2022-09-1712 min
The Learning Future Podcast with Louka ParryFutures Meets Design: Lisa Kay Solomon - Stanford d.school spotlightIn this seventh episode of the Stanford d.school spotlight; Lisa Kay Solomon gives a peek of the thoughts around her upcoming book about her recent innovative civics exercises with learners. Are our systems designed for short term rewards and is the design of civics and business at odds with the future? The conversation features a broad range of topics from design, futures, civics, the importance of agency to extra high-quality civics education. Futures thinking, practices, and mindsets are teachable and learnable. How might we think differently about the image of the future that we...
2022-08-1144 min
Audiolibros de la UDiseñe un mejor negocio - Patrick Van Der Pijl, Justin Lokitz y Lisa Kay SolomonEsta original oda al diseño de productos y procesos contiene páginas de ilustraciones y bocetos que dan vida al texto. Los expertos en diseño Patrick van der Pijl, Justin Lokitz y Lisa Kay Solomon usan el diseño del libro para enfatizar su tesis sobre la flexibilidad del diseño de productos y procesos.
2022-02-0908 min
Ink Drinkers: A Literary Tea Party PodcastEp. 17: Books to Look Forward to in 2022All books are listed in order of release date. Books with an * denote Top 5.
The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher (January 11)
Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon (January 11)
One Night on the Island by Josie Silver (February 14)
#FollowMe for Murder by Sarah Burr (February 22)
The Broken Room by Peter Clines (March 1)
The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James (March 15)
Nine Lives by Peter Swanson (March 15)
Hook, Line, & Sinker by Tessa Bailey (March 15)
Lost Coast Literary by Ellie Alexander (March 29)
Welcome to the Neighborhood by Lisa Roe (April 5)
Year on Fire by Julie Buxbaum (April 12)
The No-Show by Beth...
2022-01-1027 min
Learning Is The New WorkingThe Skills Obsession: Designing the Skills Future w/Lisa Kay Solomon of the Stanford d.school“What I introduce [my students] to are the kinds of skills that allow them to navigate ambiguity.” If that seems like urgently-needed capability you or your team to have you’re in luck, as you’re about to find out a whole lot more about why you’d need such a thing… and why you won’t find it, alas, in to-day’s conventional curriculum (including corporate L&D). In the first full episode of our new Red-Thread podcast—our deep dive into what we’re calling capitalism’s focus on ‘The Skills Obsession’—we meet passionate educator, innovator and bestselling author Lisa Kay...
2021-10-1358 minNew View EDURoman KrznaricAre we being good ancestors? This thought-provoking question strikes at the heart of what it means to design for the future. What can school leaders do right now, in the present, to ensure that long-term thinking is a pervasive, prominent practice in our schools? How can we overcome the daily short-term pressures of educational settings to take a future-focused approach to teaching, learning, planning, and innovating? And what would schools look like if we modeled seventh-generation leadership in everything we do? In many ways, school leadership is immediate, present-focused work. Leaders must respond to constantly changing d...
2021-10-0544 minNew View EDUJulie Lythcott-HaimsHow do we support our young people in becoming independent, thriving, adaptable, confident learners? How do we encourage them to develop a sense of their own agency and shape their lives, rather than having their lives dictated to them? And what is the role of schools in creating capable, responsible adults -- not just high-stat students who achieve academically but struggle to “adult” beyond the classroom?The impact of the college admissions race on students and schools is becoming increasingly clear. While students pursue an ever-growing number of advanced courses, impressive extracurricular achievements and other “resume-builders” to boost...
2021-09-2843 minNew View EDULonny Brooks and Ahmed BestThe way we understand equity in our schools is constantly evolving. Students and staff in our communities reflect a broader and richer spectrum of identity, heritage, and self-discovery at this moment than at any other moment in American history. Yet educational practice is still catching up, and the students most likely to be heavily impacted by trauma, such as the spectrum of recent events, are students of color, students with disabilities, and learners from other marginalized communities. How can a deeper understanding of the struggle for true equity in education inform the way we design schools and learning opportunities...
2021-09-2146 minNew View EDURob PoyntonComplexity deserves an improvised response. In the wake of more than a year of uncertainty, our impulses may be to more tightly control and script the experience of school. But what opportunities might reveal themselves if we instead learn to let go and apply the principles of improvisation to leading our communities? With greater flexibility and a spirit of possibility, can we use this moment to imagine School 2.0?Structure is, and always has been, an important element of school. We create systems, benchmarks, routines, schedules, and ways of “doing school” that allow us to measure and defi...
2021-09-1447 minNew View EDUSanyin SiangAre we creating school environments that allow us to see the “assumed awesomeness” in everyone? Now, more than ever before, school leadership is about modeling hope, resilience, and a sense of possibility, so we can support our communities in developing their collective superpowers.School leadership has never been easy, but at this moment in particular, there are new challenges and opportunities that could completely transform school, for better or worse. What is the role of a leader at this point in time? What are the practices that will help school leaders navigate the ambiguity and uncertainty ahea...
2021-09-0743 minNew View EDUBaratunde ThurstonWhat does it mean to be a citizen of this world, of our community, and of our future? What does “citizen” mean, anyway? And what is the role of schools in growing citizens—or what should it be?The current reality facing schools is one of rapidly changing social and political conditions that affect educators, students, and communities as a whole. Whether it’s a question of how personal choices impact collective health, or finding the right balance in helping a school community process and respond to current events, school leaders are grappling with the role of educa...
2021-08-3142 minNew View EDUCaroline WebbIt’s easy to say “have a good day at school!” But are we actually designing the environments that will support our students and staff in having good days?In a world that’s only becoming more complex, simple concepts like having a good day can almost feel too rudimentary to think about. School leaders have plenty to do without worrying about who’s having a good day, and who’s not. But having a good day is much more complicated -- and far more important -- than it seems. Some of our most talented staff are burned o...
2021-08-2440 minNew View EDUBarry Svigals and Sam Seidel2020 made us think about school safety in a completely different way from before. As we move forward, how can we redefine what we mean by “safety,” and imagine new ways to create school environments, conditions, and cultures of true safety and well-being? It’s not just physical safety measures, like masks and social distancing, that mark the pandemic as a turning point for school safety. Some experts believe that the main work of educators in 2021—and for the foreseeable future—will be trying to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 and multiple big-picture social and cultural traumas on student a...
2021-08-1738 minNew View EDUDonna Orem and Michael HornImagine that we have been given the opportunity to completely redesign the concept of school. Where would we go? During the COVID19 pandemic, educators have been forced to reimagine almost every aspect of school, changing our ideas about what’s truly essential. As we rest, recover and reflect on the past year, we can also refine our vision for the future. NAIS President Donna Orem and celebrated author and speaker on the future of education, Michael B. Horn, join us to talk about redesigning the purpose and future of schools, collaborations between K12 and higher education, and...
2021-08-1041 min
New View EDUTrailerA new podcast from the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) by Tim Fish and Lisa Kay Solomon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-07-2502 min
Natural Born Thinkers"Create shared learning experiences to unlock thinking potential!"How often have you participated in a meeting with far too many people in it, an agenda as long as your arm and no break in sight? In these environments, the chances of having your best ideas are slim. But what if meetings didn’t always have to be this way? In this conversation, I chat with management consultant and author, Chris Ertel. Chris talks about his book, “Moments of Impact” and provides a framework and insights into how to create more thoughtful meeting experiences that enable breakthrough and accelerate change.References:Moments of Impact...
2021-05-031h 34
Workplace Stories by RedThread ResearchDesigning the Skills Future: the d.school's Lisa Kay Solomon“What I introduce [my students] to are the kinds of skills that allow them to navigate ambiguity.” If that seems like urgently-needed capability you or your team to have you’re in luck, as you’re about to find out a whole lot more about why you’d need such a thing… and why you won’t find it, alas, in today’s conventional curriculum (including corporate L&D). In the first full episode of our new RedThread podcast—our deep dive into what we’re calling capitalism’s focus on ‘The Skills Obsession’—we meet passionate educator, innovator and bestselling author Lisa Kay...
2021-03-0956 min
Disrupt DisruptionA Conversation With Lisa Kay Solomon (Designer In Residence at Stanford’s d. School)Lisa is a Designer in Residence at the Stanford d. school, where she focuses on bridging the disciplines of futures and design thinking, creating experiences like The Future’s Happening to help students learn and practice the skills they don’t yet know they need.
Delve deep into the world of design thinking and learn how it relates to disruptive innovation, explore the power of an outside/in perspective, and why it is so important to identify the fixed elements in any situation.
2021-02-2330 min
L'éducation aux futursThe Full Stack Learning Organization by Lisa Kay SolomonLisa Kay Solomon shares a new “full stack” model that reimagines learning as a scalable leadership stance of adaptive, future-focused, collaborative practices.
Lisa is a bestselling author, educator, speaker, and dynamic force for good, Lisa Kay Solomon has dedicated her career to making design a more accessible, learnable, and expansive set of everyday leadership practices. Named one of ixDA’s Women of Design 2020, Lisa has taught leadership and design at the California College of the Art’s MBA in Design strategy, was the founding Chair of Singularity University’s Transformational Practices effort, and recently collaborated with LinkedIn Learning to launch their firs...
2021-01-2717 min
Radio ZamundaEpisode 47 “Vote with Love” Lisa Kay Solomon“Vote with Love”
“Don’t stay in unnecessary pain” It’s a mantra that our next guest, educator, designer, speaker, author, and creator of www.votebydesign.org, Lisa Kay Solomon leads with. Why do we stay in “unnecessary pain” when we have the agency to choose a better outcome? Further, are we even aware that we possess this agency in the first place? And as for choice, how do we make one if we lack the necessary information to make an informed one? And how can a focus on empathy, vulnerability and community help empower the agency we all have to make...
2020-10-261h 22
The Way Work Should Work, by BraintrustEp. 14: Designing the FutureToday's guest is Lisa Kay Solomon. She's a designer in residence at Stanford's D school and Founding Chair of the Transformational Practices and Leadership at Singularity University. Lisa is a passionate speaker, author, and educator and thought leader focused on helping leaders learn how to be more creative, flexible, and resilient in the face of increasing complexity and change. Lisa's work focuses on developing teachers and amplifying skills, mindsets, and behaviors required to lead positive change. She's co-author of The Wall Street Journal bestseller, Moments of Impact, how design strategic conversations accelerate change, and most recently, design a better...
2020-10-1956 min
Mom, I Got This!A Designer, an Educator, and an Author Walk Into A Bar with Lisa Kay SolomonWhat is design? How do you design a life you love? Designer, educator, accomplished author and all-around amazing woman Lisa Kay Solomon tells us how she made the choices that shaped her life. We learn about taking leaps of faith from quitting varsity tennis on an ivy league team and shifting to part-time bartending to moving across the country to work at a startup after turning down a prestigious consulting job. Lisa is a passionate educator, author, speaker and thought leader focused on helping leaders learn how to be more creative, flexible and resilient in the face of i...
2020-09-1739 min
Creating Synergy Podcast#14 - Sharyn Broer, CEO Meals on Wheels, on Leading with Purpose in the Non-for-Profit SectorSharyn Broer is a highly experienced and strategic executive leader in the national not-for-profit food and health sector. In her current joint roles as CEO of Meals on Wheels South Australia and Meals on Wheels Australia President, Sharyn has a passion for improving the health and wellbeing of communities through the delivery of high-quality community services and programs. Sharyn leads South Australia's largest community-based volunteer organisation and is responsible for 80 branches, 7000 volunteers and 60 staff delivering 4000 daily meals and supporting 11,000 people annually. In her national role, Sharyn was instrumental in the development of Australian meal guidelines promoting improved n...
2020-09-141h 19
The Round Table: A YVote PodcastVote--By DesignAt this week's Round Table, Sara Chough, Inica Kotasthane, and Riya Mehta spoke with Lisa Kay Solomon-- educator, best-selling author, Designer in Residence at Stanford University’s Institute for Design, and creator of Vote by Design, an innovative curriculum and set of workshops to help teens reflect on the personal qualities and political values that are most important to US when it comes to electing leaders. We think you’ll be as fascinated and inspired by the approach as we are. Thank you for joining us!
Some additional resources from Lisa Solomon
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2020-03-1924 min
Inside Outside InnovationEp. 168 - Alpha’s Aviad Stein on The Power of Experimentation for Innovation & Digital TransformationAviad Stein is the Director of Client Partnerships at Alpha, a consumer insights company. He has worked with Tumbler, Bloomberg, Nordstrom, and Dun & Bradstreet on customer-centric innovation strategies. Brian Ardinger, Inside Outside Innovation Founder, talks with Aviad about his experiences with experimentation and digital transformations.
Podcast Highlights:
- Aviad has taken many companies of different sizes through digital transformation. Created an innovation incubator at Nordstrom. Built online and mobile ecosystem for users engaging in-store and online. Bloomberg Digital team developed Audio/Video digitalization. Bringing content to consumers and creating partnerships.
- Advice for working in large companies? Take one challenge...
2019-10-0818 min
Inside OutsideEp. 168 - Alpha’s Aviad Stein on The Power of Experimentation for Innovation & Digital TransformationAviad Stein is the Director of Client Partnerships at Alpha, a consumer insights company. He has worked with Tumbler, Bloomberg, Nordstrom, and Dun & Bradstreet on customer-centric innovation strategies. Brian Ardinger, Inside Outside Innovation Founder, talks with Aviad about his experiences with experimentation and digital transformations. Podcast Highlights: - Aviad has taken many companies of different sizes through digital transformation. Created an innovation incubator at Nordstrom. Built online and mobile ecosystem for users engaging in-store and online. Bloomberg Digital team developed Audio/Video digitalization. Bringing content to consumers and creating partnerships. - Advice for working in large companies? Take one...
2019-10-0818 min
Reading GlassesEp 106 - Pride Reading Recommendations 2019Brea and Mallory recommend books for Pride month! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch Sponsor - Arm and Hammer Cloud Control Kitty Litter Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List Newsletter Books Mentioned - The Farm by Joanne Ramos Mostly Dead Things by Kristen Arnett Out by Natsuo...
2019-06-2728 min
Learning Is The New WorkingYou Now Live On Planet VUCA. Deal With ItListen, to learn, from well-known author and commentator on Workplace Learning issues Lisa Kay Solomon on: How a part of The Philly Diaspora ended up in Menlo Park; Why you can be scared or fascinated by the future - but you can’t ignore it; What ‘Outside-In Thinking’ about change would look like - and how it could help your organisation; Why CEOs need to drop the PowerPoint and start a meeting with a bit of Bold Wonderment… but not in a Kumbaya Way; What a journey from Transactional to Mission Learning is all about; Why our minds are coded to remem...
2019-03-2643 min
Inside OutsideEp. 126 - Barry O'Reilly, Author of Unlearn & Lean EnterpriseIndividuals get disrupted, not companies Barry O’Reilly is the Author of Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results and Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale. In this episode, Barry and Brian Ardinger discuss creating a culture of experimentation in enterprises and seeing everything as an assumption. Barry came to the U.S. from Ireland and worked at City Search “putting people on the Internet.” He then joined a mobile games development company, which helped him develop an experimental mindset. After this, he moved to Australia to make next-gen content for E-learning in Southea...
2018-12-0420 min
Inside Outside InnovationEp. 126 - Barry O'Reilly, Author of Unlearn & Lean Enterprise on Experimentations & AssumptionsBarry O’Reilly is the Author of Unlearn: Let Go of Past Success to Achieve Extraordinary Results and Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale. He and Brian Ardinger discuss creating a culture of experimentation in enterprises and seeing everything as an assumption. Barry came to the U.S. originally from Ireland on a student visa and worked at City Search “putting people on the Internet.” He soon joined a mobile games development company and created a popular game called Wireless Pets. Soon large corporations started calling asking the company to build games. This caused Barry t...
2018-12-0420 min
The Austin Meyer PodcastDesigning Stories for Impact with Lisa Solomon | Ep. 005This week on the podcast I am chatting with Lisa Kay Solomon. Lisa does it all. She is a speaker, an author, and an educator focused on helping leaders learn how to be more creative, flexible and resilient in the face of increasing complexity and change. She is a currently a Designer in Residence at Stanford University’s Institute for Design and founding Chair of Transformational Practices and Leadership at Singularity University. Lisa co-authored the Wall Street Journal bestseller, Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change, and, more recently, Design a Better Business: New Tools, Skills and M...
2018-11-151h 04
Disrupt Yourself Podcast with Whitney JohnsonLisa Kay Solomon: Designing ConversationBeing the host of a podcast, I've had my share of great conversations, but I've also had some that were…not. Whether the blame should be placed on myself, my guest, or both of us, can be left up to interpretation, but I find it interesting that something we do every day—converse with others—is also something that we receive very little, if any, formal training in how to do well. Lisa Kay Solomon wants to change all that. Lisa is the author of Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations That Accelerate Change, and she is...
2018-10-2347 min
Too Many Leaders. Not Enough Leadership.#117 - Moments of Impact with Lisa Kay SolomonRyan Caligiuri speaks with New York Times Best Selling Author, Lisa Kay Solomon the author of Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change, as they break down her book into a handful of golden nuggets!---Rate and Review the show and send a screen capture of your submission to Podcast@RyanCaligiuri.com and get entered for a draw to win a prize greater than $1,000 every quarter. Enter once and be entered forever!---Tweet any book recommendations you have for Ryan using the hashtag #CutTheCrap on Twit...
2018-05-2156 min
The 4MileCircus PodcastEpisode 25 - Late Cambrian (Part 2)John Wlaysewski and Olive Hui of Late Cambrian join us for the thrilling conclusion of our two part interview in our 25th episode! We discuss the Pledge Music funding platform, creative crowdfunding incentives, John’s recent work with Tracy Bonham (re-recording her seminal The Burdens of Being Upright album as Modern Burdens), and Olive’s YouTube series New York Real. We also play a rousing game of trivia
Nicole also shares a social media tip about actually listening to the people with whom you work, and we all play a rousing round of trivia kind...
2017-05-1550 min
Get New Releases Audiobooks in Business, Career SkillsDesign a Better Business Audiobook by Patrick van der Pijl, Justin Lokitz, Lisa Kay SolomonPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1566/to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.
Title: Design a Better Business
Subtitle: New Tools, Skills, and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation
Author: Patrick van der Pijl, Justin Lokitz, Lisa Kay Solomon
Narrator: Fleet Cooper
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-24-17
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes
Genres: Business, Career Skills
Publisher's Summary:
This book stitches together a complete design journey from beginning to end in a way that you've likely never seen before, guiding listeners (you) step-by-step in a practical way from the...
2017-04-246h 29Mind ToolsBook Insight: Design a Better BusinessIn this podcast we're looking at Design a Better Business, New Tools, Skills and Mindset for Strategy and Innovation, written by Patrick van der Pijl, Justin Lokitz and Lisa Kay Solomon, and designed by Erik van der Pluijm and Maarten van Lieshout. This book argues that design tools and skills make us more flexible, resilient and creative, and better able to build a successful business.
2017-03-2700 min
Positionierung Weiterdenken Podcast - Positionierung & Marketing für Selbständige und Solo-Unternehmer#30 Warum Du aufhören musst, strategische Planung mit Schach zu vergleichenDas Schachspiel galt lange Zeit als Sinnbild für strategische Planung: es ging um Analyse, vorausdenken und darum, sich in die richtige Position zu bringen. Die Unternehmensumwelt hat sich seitdem geändert. Was vor 20 Jahren noch ein guter strategischer Ansatz war, führt heute wahrscheinlich nicht mehr weit. Auch das Bild vom Schachspiel beschreibt das Wesen der strategischen Planung nicht mehr zutreffend. Wir brauchen ein neues Synonym: Chris Ertel und Lisa Kay Solomon schreiben dazu in Ihrem Buch Moments of Impact - How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change: "If strategy was like a high-stakes chess game a few decad...
2017-03-1421 min
Curious Minds at WorkCM 074: Lisa Kay Solomon On Designing Strategic ConversationsLeaders face an onslaught of new challenges that demand increasingly innovative solutions.
Yet their approaches to finding them often get stuck in either blue-sky brainstorming or bottom-line decision making. Instead, leaders need a path that blends these two approaches -- a middle road that engages not only the minds of their teams, but also their hearts.
To address these challenges, Lisa Kay Solomon co-authored the book, Moments of Impact: How to Design Strategic Conversations that Accelerate Change. Lisa is an innovation, leadership, and design expert and Principal Faculty and Managing Director of Transformational Practices at Singularity University. Her writing has...
2017-03-1337 minPositionierung Weiterdenken Podcast - Positionierung & Marketing für Selbständige und Solo-Unternehmer#15 Ein Zitat aus jedem wichtigen Buch, das ich 2016 gelesen habeIn dieser Episode stelle ich Dir einige Bücher vor, die ich im letzten Jahr gelesen habe. Dafür habe ich aus jedem Buch ein Zitat ausgewählt, das ich besonders wichtig oder interessant finde. Es heißt „In jedem Buch steckt ein Goldkörnchen. Man muss es nur finden." Ich stelle Dir also heute die Goldkörnchen vor, die ich im letzten Jahr in Büchern gefunden habe. Den Anfang haben in Episode #12 die deutschsprachigen Bücher gemacht (Hier:http://www.reckliesmp.de/zitate-buecher-2016-deutsch/ ) Nun folgen acht Bücher, die ich im englischen original gelesen habe. Die Bücher The One Th...
2017-01-1914 min
The EntreLeadership Podcast#171: Lisa Solomon—The Secrets of InnovationIf you want to build a Steve Jobs-like environment, where innovation and creativity reign, cookie-cutter won’t cut it. Learn from management consulting expert Lisa Kay Solomon as she discusses how to design strategic conversations that accelerate change. Lisa will show you how to get your employees to view themselves as innovators, not clock-punchers. entreleadership.com/podcast Create Core Values Tool Infusionsoft's Free Email Templates Spring EntreLeadership Master Series Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2016-10-3147 min
Radio Free Leader0732 | Designing A Better Future with Lisa Kay SolomonLisa Kay Solomon is co-author of "Design a Better Business." She is a well-known thought leader in design innovation with a focus on building the leadership skills required to ignite change and create lasting impact. Lisa is Principal Faculty and Managing Director of Transformational Practices at Singularity University, a global community of smart, passionate, action-oriented leaders who want use exponential technologies to change the world. In this interview, we discuss how leaders bear the responsibility to help design a better future...and talk tips and tactics for making that happen.
2016-09-2700 min
Inside Outside InnovationEp. 20 - Lisa Kay Solomon with "Design a Better Business"Lisa Kay Solomon knows that details matter. In this interview with Brian she highlights that much of the necessary skills for innovation aren't taught in typical educations and that top support is crucial for internal innovation to get momentum. Her book "Design a Better Business: New Tools, Skills, and Mindsets for Strategy and Innovation" gives practical advice for corporate innovators and includes dozens of case studies so that you're prepared for even the most finite aspect of your innovation process. Find a preview of her book at designabetterbusiness.com and continue the conversation on Twitter @lisakaysolomon. For information regarding your...
2016-09-0614 min