This Is DesignIntelligence

Near and Far

Dave Gilmore and Hael Kobayashi talk about a variety of topics, including Artificial Intelligence and the United Nations SDGs...

Lessons in Leadership: Leadership Transition

Preparing for transition is a multi-year, formally executed strategy.  It requires patience, steadiness of vision, adaptability to altering realities, contingency plans and actions for “just in case” occurrences, and more. 

Lessons in Leadership: Brilliance and Insight

What leaders ought to possess is the discipline to capture the wonder of brilliance when it comes, recording the insights therefrom, and intentionally searching for best ways and means to apply it for the betterment of the organizations they lead.

Why Are They There?

Carol Ann Colbert has had a career dedicated to creating effective and rewarding workspaces. Beginning her career as an interior designer, she eventually moved to the client side. Most recently the Global Director for Workplace Strategy and Innovation for the Coca Cola Company, she also served as Senior Real Estate Advisor for Chevron and Managing Director at JLL. On this edition of This Is DesignIntelligence, she talks about how ideas have changed around what makes an effective workplace, how the design community can create optimal experiences for workers, and the question that begins any successful workplace design.

Lessons in Leadership: Relational Diplomacy

The primary maker of successful negotiation rests in the themes of relational diplomacy...

The Heartset of Resilience

David Lau is an accomplished leader and serves as a Senior Instructor with the FLETC Leadership Institute. He is a combat veteran and regularly speaks on resilience, wellness, anti-fragility, and post traumatic growth. On this edition of This Is DesignIntelligence, he talks about his life changing deployment to Afghanistan, the examples of leadership that continue to influence him, and how a traumatic event can actually be a springboard to a deeper, richer, more fulfilling life.

Lessons in Leadership: Planning and Focus

Like a bullet from a gun, the speed and focus of business at the start of the year gauges the velocity of the overall business for the overall year.  Are you following the plan you set in place before the starting gun of the new year began? 

Designing for Disaster

Eric Cesal is a designer, educator, writer and noted post-disaster expert.  He has been called “Architecture’s First Responder” by The Daily Beast for his work leading Architecture for Humanity’s post-disaster programs from 2010 to 2014. On this edition of This Is DesignIntelligence, he talks about the red thread running through his multi-faceted career, the event that caused him to realize the true power of design, and how, with good design strategies, architects can design the disaster out of extreme natural phenomena.

Lessons in Leadership: Reacting to Criticism

As a leader you have to give those following you the benefit of the doubt and press in to get to the truth rather than respond from your own fear of rejection.  After all, rejection is perhaps the most difficult dynamic between humans, and leaders face it every day.

Pushing Boundaries

Known for seamlessly interweaving sustainable landscapes, art, and architecture, Andrea Cochran is the founding partner of Andrea Cochran Landscape Architecture and a recipient of numerous awards, including the 2023 Design Futures Council Lifetime Achievement Award. On this edition of This Is DesignIntelligence, she talks about the path that led her to the profession, the relationship between art and design, and why she thinks landscape architects are uniquely situated to help solve some of our most complex environmental problems.