013 Kenia Mattis: Crushing Business Goals With Creativity

Kenia Mattis (@keniamattis) is a founder of ListenMi, a creative design studio that helps companies, communities and NGOs create messages that excite and connect with their audiences through non-traditional brand-driven storytelling. ListenMi specializes in visual storytelling, illustration, animation, voice-over and music scores and reinvests part of its profits into producing its own content such as digital graphic novel series and improving the lives of our indigenous people and children. Kenia is the recipient of the 2016 DBJ Ignite Grant and was the 2016 Startup Winner at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit Spark the Fire Pitch Competition at Stanford University, among many other achievements. In this episode, we talk about: How to design an environment that brings out the best from each employee; What are the benefits of keeping a lean, small team; How to work optimally with creative people; and so much more.