Malthe Sigurdsson: Own your convictions in order to influence and create impact

In today’s episode, I speak with Malthe Sigurdsson. Malthe has 25
years of experience as a designer and design leader building,
scaling, and managing design organizations that deliver beautiful
and effective work across multiple disciplines and product
categories. He is currently the Chief Design Officer at
Handshake, where he is leading product and brand design across
the company. At Handshake his goal is to help level up the
end-to-end consumer and enterprise experiences and is
instrumental in helping Handshake grow a world-class design team.
Before Handshake, Malthe was Head of Design at Stripe, leading
design for 6 years. Prior to Stripe he was SVP of Product and
Design at Rdio and Creative Director at Skype.

We dive into what ownership, influence, and impact can look like
for designers working with diverse stakeholders. We discuss 6 key
steps for exerting influence with outsized impact – including
identifying and communicating your convictions, and enabling
others to be successful alongside you.