Parameswaran Venkataraman: The higher you go, the more inner you need to look

Over the last 25 years, Parameswaran Venkataraman has been in
design and innovation leadership roles across companies like
IDEO, Tata Digital, Fractal.ai, Dr. Reddy’s and Sapient. Over the
last decade, he has been instrumental in setting up and
establishing strategic design capabilities & culture in
several organizations. Some of the work Param has led at Studio
5B at Dr. Reddy's is now a featured case study in IDEO U’s course
on Designing for Change



Param is passionate about mindfulness and the ‘art of stillness’.
At the end of each year, he publishes a toolkit for applying
Mindfulness and Design Thinking principles for personal
reflections on the year that went past, and to create a vision
for the year ahead.



We dive into how the more you progress in your career, the more
inward you need to look, how coaching and therapy have helped him
as a designer, how to think about career milestones, and much
much more. ,