Crazy Stories from the Trenches #3: Travel & Startups
Join Design Buddies and ADPList mentors Shaoshao and Bhavna in a fun evening of storytimes from their experiences in traveling and startups. You may come and share your crazy stories with the community, too! This event will also be moderated by Natashia.
This event will take place on Discord Stages in the Design Buddies Discord community. You may find the channel here:
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🐰 😍 About our Speakers
Shaoshao Chen - Sr Manager, Experience Design, Electronic Arts
Shaoshao is a design and product leader with experience in holding dual design and product management roles in consumer and enterprise products. She combines her backgrounds in writing, marketing and advertising with technical knowledge to lead teams to create visually engaging, user-centered, and technically scalable products.
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Bhavna Devani - Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Co
Bhavna focuses on building new business with the cultural and organizational capabilities to match. She works with nascent startups, and established incumbents as they pursue innovation, the ideation, creation and scaling of new business lines and the improved implementation of agile and product thinking.
As a product manager, she worked with organizations ranging from ecommerce (eBay), to IPTV to aftermarket automotive hardware solutions. She spends her free time as a mentor on ADPList, working with covidkhoj.in and hiking.
Connect with Bhavna: LinkedIn, IG
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Natashia Tjandra (Moderator) is a Senior Manager of Product Design with broad experience at the intersection of design, data, technology, and marketing. Her career has led her through different disciplines in design: designing fonts and typefaces, creating 360 ad campaigns for prestigious global brands, co-running her own design consultancy, and leading design teams in the #1 global consulting management company. Currently at EA, she’s humanizing technology and the workplace while building cross-functional design teams and developing sustainable processes. Her passion has brought her to design mentorship, she volunteers her time with ADPList and Design Buddies, and leadership in diversity and inclusion. In her spare time, Natashia shares truths and positivity in beautifully designed three words.
Connect with Natashia: LinkedIn, IG (3 word truth), IG (travel)
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🐰 About Design Buddies
Design Buddies is an inclusive design community aimed to connect and empower designers by providing free resources, events, mentorship, and more.
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😍 About ADPList
ADPList is a community based on connection and inclusivity — a platform where people can find, book, and meet mentors around the world.
We hope to see you all here, Buddies! 👋