Doing what matters takes more than knowledge and skills. Whether you’re leading a team, launching a side hustle, or sharing a radical new idea with your boss, it takes more than preparedness to act, it takes guts.

This session will help diagnose something that you may be chickening out in your life or work on by breaking courage down into its four components: fear, values, action, change and then use the tools of design help you draw on your courage!

about your host

Ashish Goel is a designer, teacher and entrepreneur.

He is a former teaching fellow at the Stanford d.school where he has taught classes on design thinking, digital product design and mapmaking. He is also the former head of design at Zomato (India’s Doordash and Yelp rolled into one!). He is the author of a new book, Drawing on Courage: Risks Worth Taking and Stands Worth Making, part of a series of guides being published by the Stanford d.school.

He advises companies in the art and science of product design and is drawing on his courage by building Boca, an D2C sparkling water business based in India.

Event type

🎨 Artistic Exploration & Coaching