In this video, our co-founder and CEO Anna Love discusses how bringing our whole selves (Love and All) to work can really up each other's game. It changes our sense of responsibility to each other and makes our lives more seamless and less segmented.

In this short video, Stoked Head of Innovation, Brent Taylor discusses how difficult it can be to come into innovation work and start prioritizing your sense of curiosity over the sense of expertise you’ve spent years honing and accumulating. The ego loves to know things much more than not know and be curious.

Every quarter we make time for our team to gather, review work we’re doing, find inspiration, re-connect, and hopefully just relax and have some fun! In September of 2020, after a (globally) tough start to the year, we brought our team to Nashville for team time.

In this month’s video, Brent talks about the importance of play as a critical element in learning new skills and behaviors.

In this month’s video, Brent talks about the importance of play as a critical element in learning new skills and behaviors.

Parker tells the story of Stoked’s first attempts at marketing and how the results were not at all what they expected. Marketing may come across to some as shallow work, but for us, it was defining.

Parker Gates one of the co-founders of Stoked, walks us through design thinking for problem-solving. Learn how to use design thinking methods to tackle big projects and save time, money, and energy!

In order to look forward to new stories and conversations in 2020, we first wanted to see what stood out from the shows we produced in 2019. Check out this highlight reel of the best moments of the last twelve months.

In this short video, we walk you through the first few phases of a design project we led for TVA (TN Valley Authority) to better understand EV's (electric vehicles) and their place in the future of driving! In this video, you can see the TVA team leading empathy work, unpacking their interviews and synthesizing what they learned, brainstorming some big ideas, then building and testing low fidelity prototypes with potential users to gain feedback and a better understanding for the next phase of this project.

Co-written by our very own Barbara Patchen and her former co-worker Dee Stone, this articles lays out what it's like for a younger person to lead an older person. Hence the title. Barb and Dee worked together for several years leading Leadership Development work at Vanguard Health. In that time they became close friends and co-creators, but at the end of the day, Barb was Dee's boss as well as being a few years her junior. This led to some awkward moments as well as some lifelong learnings.

Dive in with Parker and this month's producer / co-host Baxter Williams as they discover what it's like to collaborate with one another while interviewing this month's guests about...collaboration! Featuring Banning Bouldin from New Dialect, Drew Sloss and Lance Brock from CLIMB and Andrea Berhends, a freelance photographer.

In this video, Stoked co-founders Anna Love and Parker Gates explain design thinking by walking through the most common 5-modes and providing real-world scenarios where a popular organization used this mode/method to achieve something big!

Basically a music video that shows design thinking and design culture in action.

This is an interview with Mark Blegen PH.D., Dean of Health Sciences at St. Catherine University. This is the story of Mark implementing Human-Centered Design in his classroom and co-designing the class with his students. Student-centered education in action!

Katie Miller, the Chief Innovation Officer from Alia takes us through their journey of applying design thinking to redesign the child welfare system.

What does it take to lead a publicly traded company with over 100,000 thousands employees world wide? We sat down with Hyatt Hotel Corporation CEO Mark Hoplamazian and dug into his leadership style, how Hyatt's global culture works and the power of empathy.

We all have our own version of daily rituals. The things we do and routines we keep that allow us to get more done or unwind. Inspired by Mason Currey's book of the same name, on this episode we explore just how much the design of your time impacts your life.

In this very first episode of reframe, produced by the good people at Stoked, Parker Gates and Jacob Jones dig into the world of digital distraction, "smartphones" and how creating space for big ideas and deep work can go a long way.