Guest Speaker
As head of product design and research at Oracle, Jod Kaftan leads a design practice that strives to meaningfully impact climate change and provide SaaS solutions that bring critical energy services to populations globally. Jod has more than 20 years of extensive end-to-end expertise in the enterprise and at both agencies and startups, driving cross-channel experiences across platforms for blue chip clients such as Sony, Microsoft, Riot Games, Google, and Wells Fargo.
Jod has always pushed for businesses to become human-centered and provide solutions that are resilient and seek enduring value. Before leading design teams at Oracle and Accenture Song, Jod was an experience designer and strategist at shops such as Razorfish and Possible, where he’s been exposed to a large spectrum of business models and design problems, from CPG, financial services and entertainment; to nonprofits, startups, and innovation labs.
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.
Together, Jod and Adam talk about how creativity is intrinsically tied to the human experience, why building a community of people who challenge you can lead to better design, and what creative folks should be looking out for as AI keeps emphasizing that it’s here to stay. As the world moves faster and faster toward automation, knowing where to keep and nurture the human touch will be more important than ever. As Jod says, “Creativity is a life force.” Listen now to learn how to harness it.