“What’s it like in your shoes?” Join Mauro Porcini, PepsiCo's Chief Design Officer, as he speaks with some of the world's most innovative minds about the vision, values and experiences that drive their creative journey.
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EPISODE DESCRIPTIONP&G's CDO Phil Duncan joins our CDO Mauro Porcini to dive into how business and design can create breakthrough brands and innovations that enhance people's lives. Explore more from PepsiCo Design + Innovation:
PepsiCo Chief Design Officer Mauro Porcini talks with Dawn Okoro, a mixed-media artist, about how innovating and taking risks can help us unearth new ideas and rewarding experiences in both art and life. Explore more from PepsiCo Design + Innovation:
On this special solo episode of In Your Shoes, Mauro Porcini opens up about his new book, authorship and how putting human needs at the center of your design process is the secret to life-changing innovation.Explore more from PepsiCo Design + Innovation:
PepsiCo Chief Design Officer Mauro Porcini talks with Michelle Stuhl, one of the most renowned design recruiters in the world, about how she identifies and recruits top creative talent to fuel design and innovation through thoughtful, diverse collaborations. Explore more from PepsiCo Design + Innovation:
Our Chief Consumer and Marketing Officer, Jane Wakely, joins our Chief Design Officer, Mauro Porcini, to dive into how marketing and design can partner to create purpose-driven brands and lasting change.Explore more from PepsiCo Design + Innovation:
Learn why Paola Antonelli, senior curator in the Department of Architecture and Design, and Director of R&D at the MoMA, thinks that the humble sticky note might just be the highest form of design.Explore more from PepsiCo Design + Innovation:
Steven Heller, the prolific writer and former New York Times art director, joins our Chief Design Officer, Mauro Porcini, for an exciting dive into what design tells us about our world and ourselves. Explore more from PepsiCo Design + Innovation:
PepsiCo Chief Design Officer Mauro Porcini talks with Ayse Birsel, an award-winning industrial designer and author, about how thinking like a designer can help you create a career and life that you love. Explore more from PepsiCo Design + Innovation:
PepsiCo Chief Design Officer Mauro Porcini talks with John Maeda, the SVP Chief Technology Officer at Everbridge and the former president of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), about how resilience can help us bridge the gap between business, tech and design. Explore more from PepsiCo Design + Innovation:
PepsiCo Chief Design Officer Mauro Porcini talks with Bennie F. Johnson, the Executive Director of the AIGA, about how design drives strategic and cultural value for companies and our world. Explore more from PepsiCo Design + Innovation:
PepsiCo Chief Design Officer Mauro Porcini talks with David Siegel, the CEO of Meetup, about his new book, Decide and Conquer: 44 Decisions that will Make or Break All Leaders. David shares his journey and offers his advice on how you can make more informed, intentional decisions in work and life. Explore more from PepsiCo Design + Innovation:
PepsiCo Chief Design Officer Mauro Porcini talks with Chris Do, an Emmy award-winning designer, the CEO and Chief Strategist of Blind and Founder of The Futur, about how embracing failure and defining your process can help you overcome creative challenges time and time again.Explore more from PepsiCo Design + Innovation:
PepsiCo Chief Design Officer Mauro Porcini talks with Joe Gebbia, the Co-Founder of Airbnb and Chairman of Airbnb.org, about his journey from artist trying to make rent to entrepreneur to design leader making a difference. Joe shares how he's done it all while staying true to his core values and belief in the power of design. Explore more from PepsiCo Design + Innovation:
Fabio Volo joins PepsiCo Chief Design Officer Mauro Porcini to talk about knowing when to pivot and why authenticity is the only way.
Federico Casalegno, SVP and Head of Samsung Design Innovation Center, NGEPT and E&I Lab, joins PepsiCo Chief Design Officer Mauro Porcini for a thought-provoking conversation about how human-centered design can lead us to solutions that benefit people and the planet.
On this episode of In Your Shoes, Bennie F. Johnson, the Executive Director of the AIGA, joins our Chief Design Officer, Mauro Porcini, for an inspiring conversation about how design creates value for companies and our world.
On this episode of In Your Shoes, Giorgia Lupi, a partner at Pentagram and advocate for data humanism, joins our Chief Design Officer, Mauro Porcini, to explore how data-driven design reveals untold stories.
Francesco Panella, a restauranteur, consultant, writer, and television star, shares the lessons he's learned throughout his career in hospitality and why giving back is at the heart of everything he creates.
IDEO Chair Tim Brown joins Mauro Porcini, PepsiCo's Chief Design Officer and the host of the In Your Shoes podcast, to discuss how design can enable resilience, drive innovation and provide solutions to our world's most pressing challenges.
Margherita Maccapani Missoni, a designer, creative consultant, and the former Creative Director of M Missoni, opens up about her early failures and why emerging creatives must abandon the previous generation's methods to fulfill their dreams.
Jon Levy, behavioral scientist, creator of The Influencers Dinner, and author of You’re Invited: The Art and Science of Cultivating Influence shares his insights on how decisions are shaped and connections are made—and about the perks of getting adventurously uncomfortable.
Roberto Verganti, an expert in leadership, innovation and integrated design at the Stockholm School of Economics and Harvard Business School, challenges us to approach design as a way of creating meaning and shaping the future.
Prolific Italian designer and architect Fabio Novembre speaks about the poetry of design, the importance of diversity, and the power of creating fewer things but with immense intention and meaning.
Celebrity photographer and filmmaker, Francesco Carrozzini, believes human connection is the most important element of his work, “the picture is the result of what happened between me and them on set."
Che Douglas, VP of Design for Booking.com, believes that building a human connection is a required first step to successfully lead any project or team.
Dawn Okoro, a Nigerian American mixed media artist whose creations are inspired by fashion and pop culture, discusses the importance of representation in the art world and the role it plays in her work.
Bobby Berk, Design guru on Netflix’s Emmy-award-winning Queer Eye, describes his career journey as a series of upward failures. As a high school drop-out who once lived in his car, Bobby says “if I can do it, anybody can.”
Emmy award-winning creative, Chris Do, has over two decades experience making a living doing what he loves. His online education platform, The Futur, teaches others to do the same through courses in the business of design.
Author and industrial designer, Ayse Birsel, believes that no matter how challenging the problem, anything – from a product, to society, to your life – can be designed to be better.
Mike Chapman is a television producer whose work spans continents and genres. Learn how his latest project, New York by Design, taught him that he’s actually been a designer his whole career.
As both an artist and the founder of a global creative executive search firm, Michelle Stuhl shares how pursuing her passion with the support of strong female mentors lead to a fulfilling, unexcepted career trajectory.
Bjarke Ingels, founder and creative partner of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), shares how empathy for the community drives his creative design solutions, which include incorporating a ski slope and climbing wall into the exterior of a waste-to-energy plant.
Michael Bierut, graphic designer, Pentagram partner, and founder of Design Observer, talks about inspiration and how rejection is a learning opportunity in disguise.
Michel Rojkind, founding partner of Rojkind Arquitectos and Senior Vice President of Architecture at WeWork, discusses the permanent ways he predicts working, travel and the pace of life will change following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Janou Pakter, founder of global creative and marketing executive search firm, Janou LLC, shares her number one interview tip.
Karim Rashid, who believes “we are all born creative,” shares how his childlike sense of wonder has fueled his career as one of the most prolific industrial designers of our time.
Carole Bilson, President of The Design Management Institute, speaks about the importance of diverse representation in the design world and how we can pave a path for the next generation of women and people of color in the industry.
Kevin Bethune’s background spans engineering, business and design with leadership roles at Nike, Boston Consulting Group and his own innovation think tank, dreams • design + life. He believes design’s purpose expands far beyond just a beautiful sketch or product, design is a “creative problem solving toolkit” that can be applied to improve organizations and societal systems at large.
Ravi Naidoo is the founder of Interactive Africa and Design Indaba, an annual three-day design conference hosted in Cape Town, South Africa. Devoted to building a better world through creativity, he shares his journey to creating one of the world’s most important design conferences and why he believes designers are incurable romantics.
Stefan Sagmeister, graphic design and founder of Sagmeister & Walsh, says that consistently overcoming your fears leads to a more fulfilling career, and life.
Fabio Volo, Italian writer, actor, radio host and author, shares the strategies he uses to inspire anyone—from his two children to his nationwide broadcast audience.
Debbie Millman is a designer, author, educator, curator and podcast host. Her career — which includes creating the iconic straw-in-the-orange Tropicana logo and launching one of the world’s first, and longest-running, podcasts — has taught her that sometimes your greatest success is born from your greatest rejection.
Learn why Paola Antonelli, senior curator in the Department of Architecture and Design, and Director of R&D at the MoMA, thinks that the humble sticky note might just be the highest form of design.
PepsiCo's Chief Design Officer, Mauro Porcini, introduces his new podcast series, 'In Your Shoes.' Join Mauro as he dives into the minds of some of the greatest innovators and creators of our time.
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