What if the secret to creative leadership isn’t confidence, but knowing when you might be wrong? John Renz breaks down how to balance ego with humility to create better partnerships and work that actually wins. Listen now to learn how to build trust, give better feedback, and lead creative teams with a balanced blend of confidence and humility.
Design legend Debbie Millman reveals what creative leadership looks like in 2025. Learn why courage beats confidence, how to empower creative teams, and why the best leaders choose service over power.
When your identity becomes your brand, how do you stay grounded? In this episode of Real Creative Leadership, Donna Lamar, Head of Video Content and Entertainment at Spotify, joins Adam Morgan to discuss what it means to lead creatively without losing yourself — or your own creativity — and how to build teams where people want to bring their entire selves to the work. Drawing from rebranding Twitter and creating culture-shaping campaigns at Nike and Spotify, Donna shows why your story, your obsessions, and what drives you are a creative’s greatest tools to stay awake and tuned into your process, and how to protect them in a world of endless feedback.
Season 6 kicks off with a must-listen for senior creatives ready to take the next step. Host Adam Morgan breaks down what it really takes to land a Creative Director role — the experiences you must have, the details to leave out, and the important questions you must ask. Discover how to position yourself for this next level of creative leadership, speak the language recruiters want to hear, and step into the role that unlocks greater influence across brands and organizations. Tune in now.
This retrospective of Season 5 of Real Creative Leadership is really a look into the future, as host Adam Morgan reflects on the season’s most relevant episodes and prescient themes — including global growth, developing a creative vision, and the future of design.
In this episode of Real Creative Leadership, Karan Dang joins Adam Morgan for a conversation about his new venture as CEO of his own branding consultancy firm, a natural evolution from his time as a creative leader at big-name brands across the industry. Together, Karan and Adam discuss what it takes to foster creativity (hint: it’s humility, curiosity, and a determination to keep up with youth culture) and how talent is really just hard work disguised as innate ability. Listen now to hear more from Karan and his unique experience collaborating with brands like Walmart and Disney.
In this episode of Real Creative Leadership, host Adam Morgan talks with Laura Montarroso Daher, founder of Music Collective and a creative visionary when it comes to auditory branding. Laura explains why brands should be incorporating sound and music into their creative strategy (which encompasses way more than catchy jingles) and how to look for inspiration and storytelling techniques in both familiar and unlikely places.
In this episode of Real Creative Leadership, host Adam Morgan is joined by Jod Kaftan, head of product and research design at Oracle, for a candid conversation about the future of design in an increasingly automated world.