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lmaulhardt@sypartners.com
415-806-2023

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Recent
Fortune. How to manage complex stakeholder interests? Think like a designer
SHRM. How to Hybrid: A case study of Harry’s Inc., examining the organization’s use of hybrid planning as a catalyst for the future of work.
Inc. How to Do the Harder, Necessary DEI Work in Your Company
Inc. How to Build a Thriving Corporate Culture in a Hybrid World: Implement employee-centered design, shift digital behavior and put physical and mental wellbeing first
Fast Company. A simple but effective tactic all great leaders use

2021
Fast Company. What Milton Glaser reveals about the limits of rational design
Inc. How to Lead With Humanity Through Crises: What we’ve learned from a year of leadership during the Covid pandemic

2020
Fast Company. Designing a better future is a moral obligation. Here’s how to start
The New York Times Group Backed by Top Companies Moves to Combat A.I. Bias in Hiring
Fast Company This Stanford-designed system will help you navigate the workplace after COVID-19
AdverTimes 10年で株価は13倍 Starbucksを復活させたハワード・シュルツの戦略を支えたパーパス・ドリブンな組織改革
AdverTimes Apple、Nike、Starbucksにパーパス・ドリブンな変革を行う専門家3名が答える、経営者が向き合う4つの悩みと処方箋【後編】
SHRM People + Strategy Journal Case Study of Crisis and an Affirmation of Character: The History of Starbucks Coffee Company’s Anti-Bias Efforts
Journal of Beautiful BusinessThe Great Reset: What Will (Need to) Change after the Crisis?
Fast Company The Olympics will be in 2021. The branding will still say ‘2020’
Medium—The Startup Strategic thinking in the time of Coronavirus
Medium—UX Collective The power of design to shape understanding and belief

2019
Medium—Modus What Nick Cave taught me about design
Creativepool The Killers or The Cure? Design for good lessons from this summer’s festivals
Medium—Modus Shifting Iconography in the Digital Age
Forbes President of SYPartners Explains How Practicing Design Thinking Transforms Company Cultures
Quartz What actually happens in bias training seminars?
The New York Times What Brand Defines These Soccer Stars? Their Own
The Washington Post Four women’s soccer stars have a new goal: Building a gender-neutral lifestyle business
Adobe 99U The Best Ideas from the 11th Annual 99U Conference, Part I
O, The Oprah Magazine This Man Turned His Life Around After a Harrowing Stroke
On The Way To Work (podcast) Episode #123 with Marc Winter, Head of Business Development & Thomas Winkelmann, Creative Director
Adobe 99U How Deep Listening Can Help You Be More Creative
Harvard Business Review When a Top Performer Wants to Leave, Should You Try to Stop Them?
CBS CBS Corporation and National Amusements Announce Resolution of Governance Disputes and Transition to New Leadership

2018
Quartz The way we portray “old people” is hurting them at work
LA Times CBS announces new independent board members to strengthen company leadership at a turbulent time

Starbucks Newsroom Beyond May 29: Lessons from Starbucks anti-bias training—and what’s next
Mic Here’s the racial bias training Starbucks employees got Tuesday, according to its architects
The New York Times Why Starbucks’s Bias Training, Despite Skepticism, Is an Important Start
Fast Company Everyone In My Office Is 30 Years Younger Than Me
Human Resources From Resourcing Humans to Investing in Them
CIO.com Diversity and inclusion: 8 best practices for changing your culture
Innovation Excellence Top 10 Innovation and Design Card Decks
The National Academies Press Aging and Disability: Beyond Stereotypes to Inclusion: Proceedings of a Workshop
Fast Company Live at #FCGrill with Léa Peersman and David Webster
Glassdoor How to Make Rockstar Hires
LinkedIn Enough about millennials. Here are 10 ways to foster intergenerational collaboration in the workplace.
Top MBA MBA Recruiter Interview: Deborah Hankin, SYPartners
The Ladders 4 ways to calm your nerves when you have to meet with your supervisor
Fast Company The Management Formula Every Leader Should Know (In One Easy Chart) Forbes What The Most Successful People Of 2018 Are Doing Right Now

Older
Tech Republic 8 digital transformation resolutions for CIOs in 2018
Tech Republic Four Steps to Successful Digital Transformation (related videos here, here and here)
Fast Company Three Rules For Creating Workplace Rituals To Improve Company Culture
Entrepreneur Stop! You’re Demoralizing Employees With Reviews!
San Francisco Chronicle Google memo, Charlottesville violence prompt CEOs to step up as leaders
Quartz Your social media profile photo makes you human. Why is it creepy on resumés?
San Francisco Chronicle SurveyMonkey moves beyond death of CEO, election debacle
HuffPost Moving from Product to Purpose: Why Purpose-Driven Companies Find Long-Term Success
San Francisco Chronicle With Whole Foods, Amazon seeks to conquer physical retail
San Francisco Chronicle Technology and logistics, not fashion, makes today’s apparel CEOs
HuffPost The Television, Digital Media Boomerang
The Hechinger Report As graduates obsess about jobs, colleges cut spending on career services
O, The Oprah Magazine 7 Ways To Stand Up to Racism
Boston Globe You think you are a good multitasker? Check out these folks
InStyle You’ll Want to Pick Up Amy Schumer’s Latest Read, Stat
Fox News Silicon Valley’s unspoken, dirty little secret (hint: it’s not what you think)
Psychology Today Should CEOs Speak Out on What Is Right and Wrong?
MediaPost The CMO Agenda For 2017: Make Marketing Creative Again
O, The Oprah Magazine O’s Go-For-It-Guide To Getting Unstuck
NewCo Shift The Change Whisperer
Fast Company The Low-Tech Problem-Solving Secret That’s Staring Your Company In The Face
Yahoo Finance How Facebook is Remaking Retail
Core77 IDEO Joins Kyu
Wired IDEO Sold Part of Itself and Joined a Collective. But Why?
Yahoo Finance The department store of the future? Think Disney
Wall Street Journal Hakuhodo DY’s Kyu Takes Stake in Design Firm IDEO
Fast Co. Design IDEO, Silicon Valley’s Most Influential Design Firm, Sells Minority Stake
Inc.com Unstuck Tip Cards on Inc.
Fortune 5 Leadership lessons from the Fortune Global Forum
Mashable The future of global education relies on better Internet access
Top MBA MBA Recruiter Interview: Sara Kalick
Brand Driven Digital Disrupting the Definition of Branding with Jason Baer