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Kat Vellos shares with us why we need meaningful friendship, what we can do to design better ones, and how to safely navigate uncharted conversational waters.
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Who is Kat Vellos?
Kat is the Principal of Studio KV, the vehicle through which she speaks, coaches and facilitates experiences that help people to create better workplace cultures and to cultivate more meaningful connections with each other.
As the author and illustrator of "We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships", a book that builds on Kat’s extensive experience as a community organiser and workshop facilitator - she certainly knows a thing or two about cultivating connection!
Before starting Studio KV in early 2020, Kat was a Senior Product Designer at Slack, where she worked in a fast-moving experiment-driven growth team that was making it easier for customers to convert from free to paid plans.
Kat has been profiled in Forbes and quoted in Fast Company for her work as the Founder and previous Community Leader of Bay Area Black Designers, a professional development community for Black digital designers and UX researchers.
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Find Kat here:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katvellos/
Website: https://www.katvellos.com/
Blog, Community & Resource:
https://weshouldgettogether.com/
Kat’s book:
We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships -
https://geni.us/A8zyt1
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Hosted by Brendan Jarvis:
Aylin Uysal - Leading a Global Enterprise UX Design Org
Monal Chokshi - Growing Impactful UX Research Organisations
Jakob Nielsen, PhD - Plainspoken, Hard-hitting and Unorthodox
Justin Dauer - Finding Fulfilment: A Designer's Journey
Rob Hamblen - Behind the Scenes of World-Class Design Sprints
Adam Perlis - How to Get the Design Job You Want
Ash Ivory - Motorcycle Metaphors for Navigating Work/Life
Rakesh Patwari - Becoming a Better Design Leader
Janna Kimel - Stephen Hawking and Sewing Accessible Threads
Alen Faljic - Creating Business Confident Designers
Christina Wodtke - Radical Thoughts On Living and Learning (episode #91 from the archive)
Jesse James Garrett - Flying the Jolly Roger While Sailing With the Navy (episode #95 from the archive)
Clara Kliman-Silver - Orchestrating Effective Research & Design
Hang Xu - Radically Reinventing Design Recruitment
A’verria Martin, PhD - Building Bridges, ReOps, and Presence
Alla Weinberg - Designing a Culture of Safety
Jane Portman - The Harsh Reality of Startup Design
Wendy Johansson - Effecting Change in a Messy World
Ronnie Battista - Strategically Designing for Goosebumps
Jon Fukuda - Creating Design-Integrated Organisations
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