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Straight Up!

by Avi Shenkin and Steven Male

🎙 Our podcast 🎙is about human centred led people/companies - we will be hosting 🥝 kiwis 🥝(plus some international guests) from all industries, like business, design, customer experience, sales, tech etc.To tell us about their process, experiences and what does human centre means to them 🍻Each of us has the knowledge and experiences they accumulated through life. ✨ Learning from the experience of others is one of the things that accelerate the progress of work and the understanding of how to evolve and innovate ↗️↗️↗️👐 You are invited to join us on this fascinating journey and dive into the mind of curious and exceptional people 👑We are👉 Steven Male - Founder of Inbound NZ https://inbound.org.nz 👈 & 👉 Avi Shenkin - Founder of EndUser https://enduser.co.nz 👈

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Episodes

  1. Accidental serial-entrepreneur - Straight Up 05 - Yaela Raber

    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…

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  2. The birth of Design Sprints - Straight Up 04 - Jake Knapp

    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...

  3. Evolution over transformation - Straight Up 03 - Llori Valenzuela

    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…

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  4. Show, don't tell - Straight Up 02 - Yvonne Leong

    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...

  5. Businesses are a collection of people - Straight Up 01 - Elle Bell

    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...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

🎙 Our podcast 🎙is about human centred led people/companies - we will be hosting 🥝 kiwis 🥝(plus some international guests) from all industries, like business, design, customer experience, sales, tech etc.To tell us about their process, experiences and what does human centre means to them 🍻Each of us has the knowledge and experiences they accumulated through life. ✨ Learning from the experience of others is one of the things that accelerate the progress of work and the understanding of how to evolve and innovate ↗️↗️↗️👐 You are invited to join us on this fascinating journey and dive into the mind of curious and exceptional people 👑We are👉 Steven Male - Founder of Inbound NZ https://inbound.org.nz 👈 & 👉 Avi Shenkin - Founder of EndUser https://enduser.co.nz 👈

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Avi Shenkin and Steven Male

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🎙 Our podcast 🎙is about human centred led people/companies - we will be hosting 🥝 kiwis 🥝(plus some international guests) from all industries, like business, design, customer experience, sales, tech etc.To tell us about their process, experiences and what does human centre means to them 🍻Each...

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Straight Up! is created and hosted by Avi Shenkin and Steven Male.
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