Design Executive Council Podcast

Design Executive Council Podcast is where the sharpest minds in strategic design leadership converge to tackle the industry's most pressing challenges. From strategy, ethics, policy to the evolving role of design in business, we dive deep into the forces shaping the future. We go beyond the headlines to explore the impact of design on technology, business, and humanity. Tune in every other week for candid discussions with top design executives, led by curiosity, insight, and a passion for shaping what’s next.

Design Executive Council Podcast is a arts podcast hosted by Gordon Ching, with 14 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.

Gordon Ching hosts Design Executive Council Podcast, a arts show with 14 episodes published.

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  Episode #7

  Rethinking Experience Management with Real-Time Intelligence

  Nov 25, 202537 minS1

  <p>We’ve entered an age where experiences are no longer designed in cycles - they unfold in real time.</p><p>In this episode, Gordon Ching sits down with Jeff Gelfuso, SVP, Chief Product and Experience Officer at Qualtrics, to explore how AI and real-time intelligence are reshaping experience management.</p><p>Jeff describes this age of AI as a time when consumer expectations for immediacy are colliding with a growing demand for trust and transparency. He explains how design and technology teams are working differently, breaking down silos, connecting feedback loops, and empowering people to respond to insights as...

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  Episode #7

  Creative Amplification: AI as empowerment over displacement

  Sep 24, 202534 minS1

  <p>AI should not be measured by how fast it can be deployed, but by the trust it builds and the creativity it amplifies.</p><p>In this episode of the Design Executive Outlook on Enterprise AI series, our founder and CEO, Gordon Ching, sits down with Eric Snowden, SVP of Design at Adobe. Eric shares how Adobe resisted the industry rush to bolt AI onto products, choosing instead to prioritize trust, agency, and user choice.</p><p>He explains why design leadership in the AI era is not about chasing speed, but about defining the conditions of trust. From...

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  Episode #6

  Designing Net Positive Futures in the Age of Intelligence

  Sep 18, 202551 minS1

  <p>AI represents a paradigm shift as profound as the Industrial Revolution, only unfolding at unprecedented speed. In this episode of the Design Executive Outlook on Enterprise AI series, our founder and CEO, Gordon Ching, sits down with Benedikt Lehnert, Entrepreneurship and Design Fellow at Princeton University.</p><p>Benedikt describes this moment as one of both fascination and unease: a frontier where the role of design leadership becomes inseparable from questions of ethics, responsibility, and human dignity. He argues that designers must go beyond product-making to become ethical navigators, negotiating the contract between business, society, and the planet to...

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  Episode #5

  Reclaiming Time, and Elevating Craft: Designing
for the Intelligence Era

  Sep 10, 202537 minS1

  <p>AI is not incremental; it’s expansive. It demands that we treat it as a redefinition of experience, not just a tool for automation.</p><p>In this episode of the Design Executive Outlook on Enterprise AI series, our founder and CEO, Gordon Ching, sits down with Christina Vallery, Chief Design Officer at The Cigna Group. Christina frames the AI era as an inflection point, one charged with both excitement and uncertainty. The challenge, she argues, is not simply adopting AI, but redefining how design creates value when machines take on routine tasks and humans elevate the craft.</p><p>...

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  Episode #4

  Responsible AI Starts with Literacy: Knowing What’s Ours, What’s the Machine’s

  Sep 4, 202541 minS1

  <p>What are humans uniquely good at, and where do machines excel? For Kurt Walecki, Fmr. GM & SVP of Design at Intuit, with over 30 years of experience, this is the defining question of the AI era.</p><p>In this episode of the Design Executive Outlook on Enterprise AI series, Kurt shares how successful innovation requires more than technology. It demands multidisciplinary collaboration, design, engineering, product, and data all leaning in together with empathy for the customer. At the center of his philosophy is functional allocation: creativity, empathy, and judgment remain human strengths, while AI contributes speed, precision, and scale...

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