Leadership, Design Thinking, Hiring, and the Future of the Professions I Scott Westfahl

Professor Scott Westfahl, the Director of Harvard Law School’s Executive Education Program, is a nationally-recognized expert in the area of leadership. He discusses how teaching has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic and how Harvard is gathering its talent to foster new and agile ways of engaging students in the classroom. Listen to the episode to hear Westfahl share a mini course in design thinking and explain how to reformulate problems and locate new solutions. Westfahl also covers the value of networks, pointing to recent studies that show how the impact of widescale networks can help locate resources, widen contacts, and solve problems on the highest level. He explains how to design an in-house training program, and details the game-changing steps that can make the difference in hiring and retaining talent.

Hosts: Lavinia Calvert & Deborah Farone
Co-Producer: Katelin Zweifel-Korzuchin & Brit Nowacki 
Audio Engineer: Nikki Rasmussen
Editor: Jessica Penfield