Most of us recognize why curiosity is important. Few of us know how to practice and unleash its full potential. But when leaders embrace curiosity, it becomes a catalyst for transformation, helping leaders challenge their assumptions, connect with people, and build cultures where everyone feels like they matter. Learn why curiosity is one of the most important skills for leaders today, plus tangible tips and activities that we can practice to build our curiosity muscles, from Scott Shigeoka,...

At its worst, friction can be a destructive force in an organization. Friction can undermine productivity and innovation, create inefficiency, and even chip away at our energy and enthusiasm for work. But what if friction could be reframed as something positive—something that makes the right things, like joy, productivity, and creative thinking, easier? Learn how great leaders use friction to make the right things easier and the wrong things harder with Bob Sutton, organizational...

Learn about how play gives us permission to dream and diverge, think outside the box, and discover solutions to unprecedented problems with Michelle Lee, Managing Director at IDEO and Instructor of our newest Creative Thinking for Complex Solving course.

What makes a good insight? Learn about how to make customer research impactful with Arianna McClain, Head of Research & Insights at Cruise.

Learn about what makes a good strategy with Roger Martin, strategy advisor and bestselling author. https://ideo.in/roger

Learn design tools for testing value propositions, how to understand willingness to pay, and how to uncover insights to help finetune your value proposition. View the full recap at: ideo.in/angel-annunciacao

Learn how to create a remote influence plan from Sacha Connor, Founder of Virtual Work Insider. View the full recap at https://ideo.in/sacha

Learn how to use data to uncover opportunities for innovation and better understand people and problems from Bo Peng, Senior Portfolio Director of Data Science at IDEO. View the full recap at https://ideo.in/bo

Why leading change always starts with people, and tools you can try to make people the catalysts for change. View the full recap at https://www.ideou.com/blogs/inspiration

Learn a framework for identifying bias, prejudice and bullying and choosing a response; tools leaders can use to disrupt bias; and ways to be an upstander at work. View the show notes, transcript and recap at https://ideo.in/kimscott

The 3 foundational elements of belonging, and the tools and levers of design you can use to foster it. View the visuals and resources discussed in this episode at https://ideo.in/susie

How organizations can shift toward more customer centricity, and why it starts with employee health. View the full recap at https://ideo.in/leslie

Tips for how leaders can tap into creativity to solve today’s biggest challenges from IDEO Co-Chair Tim Brown. View the full recap at https://www.ideou.com/blogs/inspiration

Insights on creating inspiring educational experiences from Kai Frazier, Founder and CEO of edtech startup Kai XR. View the full recap at https://ideo.in/kai

Why workplace friendships are important, tips for making friends at work, and how to deepen connections with better conversations. View the full recap at ideou.com/blog

Lessons on different types of motivators, what behavioral science can teach us about motivation, and the importance of intrinsic motivators in the workplace. View the full recap at https://ideo.in/beworks

Tips on designing for uncomfortable conversation topics like sex, mental health, personal finance, and addiction from women’s health entrepreneur Kerry O’Connor. View the full recap at ideou.com/blog.

IDEO U’s Nusrat Ahmed and Coe Leta Stafford share 4 inclusive design mindsets and why they’re an important part of any designer’s toolkit. View the full recap at https://www.ideou.com/blogs/inspiration/how-to-get-started-with-inclusive-design

Strategy is often portrayed as a thinking exercise—a set of decisions and plans made by a small group. But strategy is brought to life by the people in every part of an organization every day. Engaging the people critical to both creating and activating your strategy is an element missing from most strategy approaches. In our new course, Activating Strategy, you’ll learn how to make more informed choices by getting tangible and running small tests, assess your resources and readiness to...

Jennifer Riel, IDEO’s Global Director of Strategy, shares the 7 common strategy myths and how to make your strategy more actionable. View the full recap at https://ideo.in/jennifer

What is design thinking? Why does it work? How do I get started with it? Our community had so many great questions on the power and potential of design thinking that we hosted an Ask Me Anything session on the topic with IDEO partners and IDEO U leaders Suzanne Gibbs Howard and Coe Leta Stafford. View the full recap at https://ideo.in/designthinking

In times of turbulence, uncertainty or stress, it can be difficult to tap into the creativity needed to do your best work. SYPartners and kyu Collective Founder Keith Yamashita says those are the times it’s most impactful to have a reservoir of inspiration to pull from. In this conversation with Keith, we talk about rituals and tactics you can try to find inspiration individually, in duos and in teams. View the full recap at https://ideo.in/keith

Erica Keswin, author of Rituals Roadmap, shares the business case for rituals in the workplace and the key elements behind a ritual. View the full recap at https://ideo.in/erica

Tara Tan, General Partner and Investor at IDEO Creative Capital, joined us to share three themes she’s seeing emerge in the world of web3 and how to apply those ideas to your business, whether you’re in the digital space or not. View the full recap at https://ideo.in/taratan