Payal is on a deliberate and conscious journey to affect change as a creative leader. She leads teams of inspiring designers, product managers and technologists and holds dear the tenets of good collaboration, curiosity, craft and continuous learning.

Over the last two decades, she has worked at agencies like Fjord, Imagination, Idean and frog amongst others. She embraces deep empathy, robust decision-making, strategic foresight, understanding why people get out of bed in the morning and keeping her head on her shoulders - all whilst driving progressive and holistic business growth and inclusion. On the leadership team at frog, she led the formidable task of integrating four different agencies into what is today, frog.

Idean, Rufus Leonard, frog design and Fahrenheit 212 came together when bought by Capgemini, a global consulting firm. Payal led this merger and the integration of teams into coherence for the UK business and is possibly greyer for it!

She’s curious about where the interplay between design, technology, data and societal transformation leads us and advocates the need to go gentler into the future. Payal loves a challenge that allows her to wade into ever-pervasive complexity and she reads without prejudice. Unless it’s badly typeset.

The talk was recorded at Leading Design London 2023. Find out more about the event here - https://leadingdesign.com/conferences/london-2023

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