From intern to Global Head of Animation to Managing Director, @Pierre Nelwan has made his way through every run of the ladder at Media.Monks, a marketing and advertising company. His teams have produced award-winning work for clients like Amazon, Google, and VICE (including 200 Cannes Lions awards!).

Meet Greg Petroff. With over 25 years of experience in design, Greg has an extensive track record of leading teams that deliver user-centric, context-driven, creative products and services that enhance the efficiency of enterprises and organizations. His mission is to bring design to the forefront of organizational communication, culture, and strategy, and to empower users with seamless, intuitive, and engaging solutions that solve their problems. He also thinks of himself as an ifnographer or possibilitarian. 

Meet Zvika Krieger. He has a very interesting resume. Zvika was Meta’s first-ever Director of Responsible Innovation, at Facebook; Executive Committee Member of the World Economic Forum; the U.S. Department of State's first-ever representative of Silicon Valley; Senior Strategist at the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he worked on climate change, Middle East strategy, policy, innovation, and emerging technology. Before that, he spent a decade as a journalist. Today, Zvika is advising companies on responsible innovation strategies to anticipate and mitigate potential harm due to their products and serving as the spiritual leader of a Jewish spiritual center in Berkeley called Chochmat HaLev.

Meet Tannara Schneider: VP, Head of Inclusive Practices at Activision Blizzard. She has a wide range of user experience strategy, service design, organizational transformation, and development and learning design experience. And she's using those skills to change the experience of work.

Meet Mary Piontowski, VP and Head of Product Design at Cisco Meraki. I've been working with her team, including at an off-site, and have had the privilege of seeing what an amazing leader Mary is.

👋🏼Meet Anna Love, CEO and Co-Founder of Stoked, a global design consultancy focused on humanizing work. She recently made Inc. Magazine’s Female Founders 100, a list of America's most creative and trailblazing leaders. She actively pushes the boundaries of workplace culture and helps organizations innovate and create cultures they are proud of. 

👋🏼 Meet Ingrid Dahl, Global Learning and Development Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Learning at Meta. I met her long ago when she was a Senior Director of Education at the Bay Area Video Coalition. At that time, Ingrid was developing programs for underserved populations in the California Bay Area that provided training and job opportunities in the tech industry.  I invited Ingrid to have a conversation about leadership because she's an interesting person, as you will see, and she's had a wide range of experiences across the nonprofit world, big corporate, learning and development, diversity, equity, and inclusion. 

Meet Talli Pinhasi, Lead Director of Enterprise Design at CVS Health. With over two decades of experience across design, business strategy, and tech innovation, she’s learned a lot about leadership. I had the pleasure of working alongside her at Designit, and what I remember most about Talli was how she made people feel: cared for, challenged, and part of something bigger. In this interview, she shares why leadership is like an empty notebook and some key insights she would put in hers.

Meet Jose Coronado, Executive Director, Global Head of Design Operations for Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB) at JPMorgan Chase & Co. One of many things that impresses me about Jose is his deep commitment to cultivating effective design leadership skills within JPMorgan and the design community-at-large. I’ve seen this through his investment in training designers at all levels in storytelling, influence, and business strategy skills, as well as how generously he shares his own leadership lessons on the design speaking circuit. This interview is chock full of gems that will help you expand your own leadership approach (i.e., Broaden your recognition language).