Straight Up!

Yaela Raber started a multinational, multi-million dollar agency (by accident) sold it and founded another company called the C.E.OHM to help entrepreneurs and founders through the mysterious journey of starting a business. She tells us about the struggles setting a work-life balance while growing her business and how we should be unapologetically ambitious but at the same time, not compromise on our life outside the "shop". In other words, how to GO BIG & GO HOME! Links: https://www.instagram.com/c.e.ohm/ www.the-ceohm.com

Jake Knapp is the inventor of the Design Sprint and a New York Times bestselling author! Jake spent ten years at Google and Google Ventures, where he created the Design Sprint process. He's written two books, Sprint and Make Time. Previously, Jake helped build products like Gmail and Google Hangouts.Jake tells us about his idea of product empathy, the process through the birth of the Design Sprint. He also shares his insight on the similarities and differences between New Zealand and Silicon Valley and what's the best way to reach out to people in a relationship based ecosystem. Links: https://jakeknapp.com

Llori Valenzuela is the head of online sales at Fonterra. She is passionate about customer-led design and delivering value to both customers and stakeholders. Llori tells us about her journey from studying nutrition and food science in the US through to overseeing the evolution of the human-centred approach at Fonterra. A unique insight into what it’s like to make an impact from within a large organisation. Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/llori-valenzuela-79580b1/ The views Llori expresses are her own and not that of her employer.

Yvonne Leong is an experience designer and innovator. She is passionate about creating experiences to help others bring their awesome (whole) self to work. Yvonne tells us about her journey from (human-centred) sales to co-founding the design practice at Vodafone, and how to jump on a Silicon Valley adventure when the opportunity comes knocking. Links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/curiouskidyvonneleong/ "This episode is a look back on Yvonne's personal journey, and time at Vodafone, she since departed Vodafone to pursue a more significant impact in the future of living. "

Elle Bell is a customer experience transformational specialist and an entrepreneur. She tells us about B2B human-centred approaches and how to make time to volunteer and start a new startup without quitting your day job! Elle's exciting startup is called SpacetoCo and in short, it's an Airbnb for business spaces! Links: www.spacetoco.com elle@spacetoco.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/elle-bellnz/ “The views Elle expresses are her own and not that of her employer - Accenture"