Business Artistry with Nir Hindie

Business Artistry is a podcast about creative leadership inspired by Renaissance thinking: the belief that our best ideas emerge when we combine the arts, technology, and business. In each episode, Nir Hindie speaks with artists, founders, and leaders working at the intersection of art, technology, and innovation, exploring the habits and mindsets that keep imagination alive in real organizational life. A show from The Artian, a creative leadership development atelier.

Business Artistry with Nir Hindie is a business podcast hosted by Nir Hindie, with 58 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Nir Hindie hosts Business Artistry with Nir Hindie, a business show with 58 episodes published.

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  Episode #50

  050 - Mickey Drexler. Creativity Is Everything, in Anything.

  Apr 8, 20261h 7mS3

  <p>Millard "Mickey" S. Drexler built Gap into a cultural brand, launched Old Navy, led J.Crew, and now chairs Alex Mill. He also spent 16 years on Apple's board — and played a pivotal role in shaping the Apple Store as we know it today.</p><p>But this conversation isn't about the résumé. It's about how Mickey thinks.</p><p>He leads through taste, instinct, and an obsessive attention to what a customer actually experiences. He'll tell you data doesn't design product. That most CEOs never talk to customers. That creativity is in the DNA — and you can spot it in...

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  Episode #49

  049 - Steve Hayden. Words That Move.

  Mar 12, 20261h 14mS3

  <p>What does it take to create something that changes everything? In this episode, I sit down with Steve Hayden - the man who wrote the 1984 Apple commercial, still considered one of the greatest ads ever made. But this conversation goes far beyond that sixty seconds. We talk about where revolutionary ideas actually come from, what Steve Jobs was really like to work with, the disaster of 1985 that almost nobody talks about, and why the business world keeps choosing efficiency over creativity - even when history proves creativity wins every time.</p><p><b>What we cover in this episode<...

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  Episode #25

  048 - Michael Naimark: What Artist-Explorers Know That Corporates Always Forget

  Feb 11, 20261h 10mS3

  <p>What happens when an artist imagines the future decades before the rest of the world catches up?</p><p>In this episode, Nir Hindie sits down with pioneering media artist and researcher <b>Michael Naimark</b>, whose work has shaped immersive and interactive media for more than forty years. If you’ve used Google Street View, you’ve seen the shadow of a project he helped create at MIT in the late 1970s: the <b>Aspen Movie Map</b>, a radically early experiment in “surrogate travel.”</p><p>Michael’s career moved across some of the most influential innovation environmen...

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  Episode #24

  047 - Julie Martin: Before Silicon Valley, There Was E.A.T.

  Jan 21, 20261h 4mS3

  <p>This episode dives into one of the most overlooked turning points in modern innovation: the moment artists and engineers decided to build the future together. Julie Martin, co-director of E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology), joins Nir Hindie for a deep exploration of the collaborations that shaped contemporary tech culture long before Silicon Valley existed.</p><p>They unpack how the legendary “Nine Evenings” project brought together world-class artists and Bell Labs engineers to create performances that pushed the limits of sound, movement, computing, and imagination. Julie explains why these collaborations worked, what tensions and breakthroughs shaped them...

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  Episode #46

  046 - Andrew Zolli. New Humanism.

  Dec 1, 202145 minS2

  <p>In this episode, Andrew Zolli, Chief Impact Officer at Planet, the imagery company, speaks about the initiative he leads, “Art as Planet.” We discuss what the role of art in communicating scientific vision is? How artists have been helping in shaping an innovative culture in a satellite company, and why should small startups launch their own artist in residence?</p><p>Zolli is a technologist, strategic foresight expert, and author. In the past he was the primary creative and curatorial force behind PopTech, a well-known innovation, and social change network; he served as a Fellow of the National Geographic Soci...

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