Beyond Walls
Project Inclusion: The Podcast
A Conversation with Lacey Schütz | Beyond Walls What does it really take to lead an institution that lives up to its own values? In this episode, we sit down with Lacey Schütz — a cultural leader with over fifteen years of experience at institutions including the Museum of the City of New York and Shaker Museum — now based in Saudi Arabia, where she's been observing a cultural ecosystem being built from the ground up. Lacey speaks candidly about the hidden costs of scarcity culture in mission-driven organizations, why burnout is a systems failure rather than a personal one, and what...
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Moving Elephants
Project Inclusion: The Podcast
How do you move elephants — without breaking the system or the people inside it? “AI didn’t create accessibility risk — it poured gasoline on velocity. And velocity exposes broken systems.” That line stopped us in my tracks. In our latest Project Inclusion conversation, we sat down with Cat Noone, CEO of Stark, to talk about what it really takes to move elephants — large organizations navigating accessibility, governance, and product velocity. We explored: Why companies don’t ignore accessibility because they don’t care The “latent innovation phase” most organizations get...
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Rock, paper, scissors!
Project Inclusion: The Podcast
How can a game transform life-or-death conversations in healthcare settings? A conversation with Criswell Lappin In this compelling episode, design thinker Criswell Lappin reveals how play and games can break down barriers in healthcare, particularly for underserved communities. With over 20 years of experience spanning from Apple to healthcare innovation, Lappin demonstrates that the mechanics of play aren't just for children—they're powerful tools for building trust and sparking meaningful conversations. The St. Joseph's Health Project Lappin's most impactful work involved addressing a...
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ctrl+alt+learn
Project Inclusion: The Podcast
What if everything we thought you knew about education was holding us back? It’s time to unlearn, reimagine, and step into the future of learning with CoLAB. Listen to our latest podcast episode featuring “who” from CoLAB, an organization whose vision is to co-design next-ready resilient communities where education, creativity and social responsibility converge to drive impact in a rapidly changing world. CoLAB is redefining education with a bold, student-centered philosophy that fuses design thinking, critical inquiry, creativity, and service. More than just a learning model, it’s an...
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Brave Conversations
Project Inclusion: The Podcast
Project Inclusion had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Noa Gafni on our most recent podcast episode, where we dove deep into the power of bravery and presence in the realm of business and global social innovation. Reflecting on her international upbringing, Noa brings a unique lens to the discourse on changemaking, revealing how personal histories can inform and enhance global conversations on impact. ….. Project Inclusion had the pleasure of hosting Noa Gafni on our most recent podcast episode, where we dove deep into the power of bravery and presence in the realm of business and global...
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Good tastes better
Project Inclusion: The Podcast
To open our second season, we sit with Robbie Cape, a serial entrepreneur committed to building successful businesses dedicated to repairing the world meaningfully. He co-founded and is CEO of Mt. Joy, a restaurant that focuses on bringing irresistible fried chicken sandwiches from farm-to-table using regenerative practices. When Robbie's not thinking about how to help more farmers farm regeneratively, he's working on building a more sustainable, transparent supply chain for good food. Today, we talk to Robbie about his journey from tech to the food industry and how he's making Mt. Joy's...
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Unleash the power of spinning
Project Inclusion: The Podcast
In this episode, we sit with Gil Gershoni, a leader in the world of brand design, and talk about how his journey as a dyslexia designer has led him to unlock new futures, new realities, and new ways of thinking for brands. Gil is also the founder of Dyslexic Design Thinking, an initiative that explores how the dyslexic mindset can help improve the way we think, create and relate to one another. He is the host of the Dyslexic Design Thinking podcast featuring dyslexic creators, entrepreneurs and thought-leaders.
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Navigate the messiness of impact design
Project Inclusion: The Podcast
In this episode, we talk to Robert Fabricant about making an impact at a local and global level through service design. Robert is Co-Founder and Partner of Dalberg Design, where he brings human-centered design and innovation services to clients looking for new, creative approaches to making breakthroughs in social impact and international development. We talk to him about how his years of experience in human-centered design has shaped his perspective on how we think about relationships when designing services for communities around the world and how inclusion in service design means not only...
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Social Innovation: From farmers to misinformation
Project Inclusion: The Podcast
How would you connect with communities and people that are different from you, or your way of life? How would you design a program that can help farmers in developing countries begin to create a relationship with digital technology? How would you help a community of 10,000 Filipinos understand the impact of misinformation on their daily lives? How would you navigate the politics of the public sector to help improve the lives of your local citizens? In this episode, Fanny and Mindy hear from Joie Cruz about what it takes to drive social innovation in the Phillipines.
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Sparking Intergenerational Connections
Project Inclusion: The Podcast
How do you define a life well lived? How can we celebrate the incredible wit, wisdom, and experiences of older adults living full, meaningful lives and use them as inspiration for our own lives instead of overlooking older adults? What happens when a small family project grows into a social movement across the country? How can schools, use intergenerational conversations to teach history, empathy, resilience, and ageless wisdom? And what are ways companies, are cultivating intergenerational, connections in the workplace to build a more age-resilient and age-intelligent workforce? In this...
info_outlineProject Inclusion had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Noa Gafni on our most recent podcast episode, where we dove deep into the power of bravery and presence in the realm of business and global social innovation. Reflecting on her international upbringing, Noa brings a unique lens to the discourse on changemaking, revealing how personal histories can inform and enhance global conversations on impact.
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Project Inclusion had the pleasure of hosting Noa Gafni on our most recent podcast episode, where we dove deep into the power of bravery and presence in the realm of business and global social innovation. Reflecting on her international upbringing, Noa brings a unique lens to the discourse on changemaking, revealing how personal histories can inform and enhance global conversations on impact.