Design-Centric Leadership with Mia Blume

On Brand with Nick Westergaard

Mia Blume is a creative leadership coach with experience at Pinterest, Square, and IDEO. In 2016, she started Design Dept. to help creative leaders transform how they work. We discussed all of this and more this week on the On Brand podcast.

About Mia Blume

Mia Blume is San Francisco-based creative leadership coach. A former design leader at Pinterest, Square, and IDEO, Mia started Design Dept. in 2016 to help transform the way creative leaders work. Through individual coaching, workshops, and customized workplace learning and development, Design Dept.’s guided experiences foster creative leadership. Mia believes that when a designer’s authentic leadership style is unlocked, it impacts not only individuals and teams, but the products, services, and organizations that shape our world.

From the Show

What brand has made Mia smile recently? “This might not be as recent as you were looking for but do remember the Loom Candle?” Mia shared how the video platform sent out candles for users to commemorate the meetings they no longer had to have.

Connect with Mia on her website and LinkedIn.

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