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In Our Conversation Today, We’re Exploring:

• Andy’s journey of taking The Design Gym from a side hustle to a company that works with companies like Kellogg’s, HP, and Porsche to name a few

• The various ways The Design Gym helps employers unlock the potential of their employees

• Andy’s thoughts on what design thinking really is

• The Design Gym’s three-pronged approach to helping teams and organizations get clear about what their problems actually are so they can find the right solutions

• Andy’s advice for what to do it you’re feeling stuck

• The importance of having patience while working through the design thinking process

• The role collaboration places in design thinking

Our guest this week and next is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of The Design Gym, Andy Hagerman. The Design Gym is a boutique, independent innovation and strategy consultancy that has been helping organizations unleash the potential of their staff for more than a decade.

Nayla and Andy met years ago through a mutual friend, and he’s worked with some of Nayla’s students and organizations over the years.

In part one of our conversation with Andy, we discuss how design thinking, and that process, can help us identify better problems, how we can use empathy and perspective-taking to make sure we’re solving the right problems as it pertains to coaching, our careers, and leadership.

Email Andy Hagerman from The Design Gym at (hello@thedesigngym.com) and mention the Inside Job podcast and they'll send over a link back with a design thinking toolkit, a set of Growth Ideation Facilitation Cards, a few books and blog posts to learn more about the topic, and a how-to video of how to embrace our favorite design thinking mindset with your team. Include a few notes about yourself and what you're working on, and they'll throw in any other resources they think might be useful!

Resources we mention in this episode:

• Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD | Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life

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