Design Thinking Workshop at Stanford Graduate School of Business, LEAD Program Event

Join our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/company/svdtclub/ Interviewee Bio: Uju Obuekwe is a Chief Strategy Officer at Platform Branding Company, member of the African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative and an alum of Stanford GSB Lead. In 2019 she received the WEF Woman of Excellence Award at the Women Economic Forum held in India and she was recently appointed into the Advisory Board of FLLO Biz Support (FBS) - a social enterprise that provides Women SMEs with Finance and Advisory services. In this interview she shares her professional and personal experiences, opinion on entrepreneurship, professional branding strategies and best practices from her book “The Essential Guide to Personal Branding”. https://www.svdt.club/ https://obuekwe.com/

Join our LinkedIn group: https://www.linkedin.com/company/svdtclub/ Interviewee Bio: Abhijit Thosar is a Product and Service Design Executive with over 20 years of global industry experience. He has a proven track record of helping companies adopt Design Thinking methodologies to gain deep user insights, innovate on product and service experiences, deliver business value and differentiate in the marketplace. His product design experience spans a multitude of industries in both B2B and B2C space and his strength lies in understanding users, analyzing data, gleaning actionable insights, simplifying complexity and re-framing problem to come up with empathetic, elegant and effective design strategy. Specialization: • Driving product and service design strategy and roadmap • Planning and managing large scale/global product design programs • Partnering with business and engineering leaders on Agile development • Defining product CX measurement and business impact matrices • Building and mentoring inter-disciplinary product design teams • Training and coaching teams on design thinking Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhijitthosar/ https://twitter.com/athosar Follow us: https://www.linkedin.com/company/svdtclub/ https://twitter.com/SvdtClub

A talk with Matthew Webber, an international best-selling author of "Fit for Disruption: How to transform your business and thrive in times". SPEAKER BIO Matthew has over twenty years international experience leading finance and commercial functions, large-scale operations and transformation programs with organizations including Kmart Australia, Woolworths, Target Australia, Target Asia Sourcing and Lion (National Foods). He is now an innovation and business transformation author and speaker, and founder of the Menark Group – a specialist strategy, program delivery and training organization that focuses on driving business performance by developing commercial, operational and innovation capability. Matthew holds a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) from Monash University, and has completed the Stanford LEAD program in Corporate Innovation.

As Google’s first engineering director, Alberto Savoia led the team that launched Google’s revolutionary AdWords project. After founding two startups, he returned to Google in 2008 and he assumed the role of “Innovation Agitator,” developing trainings and workshops to catalyze smart, impactful creation within the company. Drawing on his book "The Right It," he begins with the premise that at least 80 percent of innovations fail, even if competently executed. He discusses how to reframe the central challenge of innovation as a question not of skill or technology, but of market demand: Will anyone actually care? Savoia shares strategies for winning the fight against failure, by using a rapid-prototyping technique he calls “pretotyping.”