How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional Ways | Sarah Stein Greenberg

Sarah Stein Greenberg (0:00)

We as, whether educators or problem solvers or leaders, actually need to become better at right now. It's really the ability to navigate ambiguity, the ability to hold space for others to do that, and the ability to embark on a learning process rather than a like, I'm going to nail it today process, I think is quite important and not something that enough of us have been trained in. That's part of what I'm trying to do here with design, is to really help people have those skills to be prepared to face those kinds of unknown challenges.

Michael Gervais (0:40)

Okay, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery podcast. I'm Michael Gervais and by trade and training, I'm a sport and performance psychologist. I am fortunate to work with some of the most extraordinary thinkers and doers across the planet and the whole idea behind this podcast, behind these conversations, is to learn from the extraordinaries, to pull back the curtain, to explore how they have committed to mastering both their craft and their minds.

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Now, this week's conversation is with Sarah Stein Greenberg, the executive director of the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University. It's also called d.school. For over a decade, she has helped lead the d.school to nurture creative thinkers and doers and to help spread the methods of design. So Sarah teaches at the unique intersection of design and social impact. She also likes to tinker with old educational formats and to work to adopt them to today's learners. She's taught the d.school's foundational class, Design Thinking Bootcamp, an experimental course called Design Thinking for Public Policy Innovators and the long-running, high-impact Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability, whose students have gone on to design products and services that have helped over 100 million people worldwide. So this is a conversation about taking a different approach to problem solving. I think you're going to love it. With that, let's jump right into this week's conversation with Sarah Stein Greenberg.