Ep. 68 Leading By Design: A Passionate And Principled Career in Retail Placemaking with James Damian - Consultant - Gap International Brand Strategist, Design Thinking Practice Leader

James Damian had an early career in retail under the mentorship of the legendary Gene Moore of Tiffanys in New York, later becoming the Senior Vice President / Chief Design Officer of the Experience Design Group of Best Buy and the Chairman of the Board of Buffalo Wild Wings. He understands the power of a pause and exudes a palpable passion for people, creativity and leading like the conductor of a symphony orchestra. Host David Kepron talks with James unpacking a creative career and his core principles of transformative leadership.

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NXTLVL Experience Design will bring you daring and different dialogues about “DATA: Design, Architecture, Technology and the Arts.” You’ll hear from provocateurs for whom disruption and transformation are a way of engaging in work and play everyday. My guests will include thought leaders who are driven by a passion to create the ‘new possible’ and promote new paradigms of experience into the mainstream. Designers from all disciplines. Architects who are changing the landscape of the built world. Techno-philes – visionaries who make deeply sensory-based but digitally-mediated experiences. And I’ll explore the transformative process of creativity with artists of all sorts.