Think & Link by Capsule
Think & Link is Capsule’s speaker series, featuring conversations with leading minds in design, retail, innovation, sustainability, entrepreneurship and marketing. We strive to inspire bold ideas, cultivate unlikely connections and promote lifelong curiosity in our community.
Episodes
We have Omar Ansari, Founder, Surly Brewing paired with Andy Pearson, VP of Creative Liquid Death. Both of these individuals and brands have been swimming upstream, defying the norm and breaking the molds of their respective categories.
We think this pairing is so good, Apple Pie and Ice Cream are going to be jealous.
Areas of learning from this episode:
One: What it takes to ques...
We’ve been rather proud of our pairings at Think & Link; Pants Optional, but we’ve outdone ourselves this time. We’re pairing Château La Mission Haut Brion Bordeaux red wine with the best meal you’ve ever enjoyed. We have Vince Voron, formerly of Apple, Coke, Dolby and now with Ripple, he is known for designing iconic elements into brands. And, Soon Yu, Author, Innovator, Formerly VF Corp; and Soon Yu has written a best selling...
If you’re a fan of behind-the-scenes brand stories, we’ve got you covered in this Think & Link pairing. We have Guy Kawasaki and Lisa Mann on the stage and their combined experiences have influenced this fantastic list of brands; Apple, Kind, PepsiCo, StumbleUpon, Canva, Motorola, Oreo, Chips Ahoy!, and Trident. And, those are just the public ones, there are certainly more unlisted.
We’ll be talking about the importance of activity, getting outdoors, connecting with nature, entrepreneurship, loved brands, designed experiences, and so much more with this inspired global leader.
Joy Howard is one of our favorites we met while working with Patagonia. After leaving Patagonia, she went on to lead marketing at Sonos and Lyft before launching her own venture, Early Majority—a beautifully responsible active outdoor ge...
There’s something intuitively elegant when these two founders are on the stage. Ashley Sumner is the founder of Quilt, an audio social app designed to be a safe space and started a meme in the founder community with “I am a XFemaleX Founder”. Jann Parish was an iconic CMO and left it behind to become a co-founder of GLU, Girls Like You, a beauty brand with her daughter Lila.
In this episode, we have the iconic David Rubin, Chief Marketing Officer of The New York Times. Yes, that little known publisher has agreed to grace our show. David’s only requirement was a pairing with a legend in marketing Fernando Machado, the former Chief Marketing Officer of Burger King and Activision Blizzard. Fernando and David will be talking about digital transformation, returning vibrancy to experienced brands and the rol...
In this episode we cover retail, design and the arts, a trio of subjects delivered perfectly by this duo of founders. We have Megan Tamte, founder of EVEREVE and Mercedes Austin, founder of Mercury Mosaics on the show, just in time for some Black Friday retail therapy blended with art and design.
If you’re at all interested in a creative model of retail growth, designed by Megan, this will be a great listen. And, if you have any af...
In this episode we explore leadership and culture, the flour and water in a recipe for an exceptional organization.
We have the pleasure of welcoming our client from Zurich, Switzerland based venture, Katadyn and Shawn Hostetter, who led the North American organization and delivered amazing results with our Capsule team. Shawn is paired with DeAnna Murphy, an organizational development leader at People Acuity.
In this episode, we show our love for product and experience design. Angie Tebbe of Rae Wellness and Kate Lubenesky of W&P are two amazing entrepreneurs who have used design to improve the little things in our lives. And, by little, we don’t mean unimportant. In fact, these bits of how we live make a big impact on how we thrive. We hope you’ll see why we admire these two founders for their contributions to the design and entr...
In this episode we are taking the Think & Link discussion to intellectual curiosities born of blending science and design. We thought of no two better representatives than Eric Quint of 3M Design, paired with the co-director of Science House, Rita J. King. In her words, Science House is a cathedral of the imagination in Manhattan focused on the art and science of doing business. Eric is the former head of design at 3M and the a...
In this episode we are excited to have Amanda Brinkman of Sunshine Studios and Lisa Armstrong formerly of Resideo on the podcast. Amanda started the show Small Business Revolution while helping all of us question why we can’t do more good while doing well. Lisa has led marketing in large technical organizations, earning herself icon status in our community.
We cover some very interesting topics with this pair of dynamic marketing ...
On our stage we have former client, Dan Buettner of Blue Zones and our friend Scott Lien of GrandPad. Dan is a researcher, author, Netflix special host and Founder of Blue Zones, a company studying and implementing evidence-based ways to help people live longer and better. Scott is the Co-Founder of GrandPad, a technology company reshaping the way seniors connect with their loved ones. Together, our two guests discuss how to live ...
In today's episode, we have a representative from FabFitFun, Ryan Waymire, on the Think & Link podcast to talk about what they are seeing. Along with Ryan we have Kara Goldin, the founder of Hint Water and the only person we know who has had a drink with Maria Shriver. We’ll be talking about women in entrepreneurship and what the near future looks like through their lenses.
This episode, we are going deep into the world of bike culture with Rich Tauer, President of QBP (Quality Bike Products) paired with Erik Saltvold, Founder, Erik’s Bikes. We will discuss a number of other topics related to bikes, like org culture, marketing, entrepreneurship, leadership and saddle soreness after your first century ride.
On today’s episode, we have Kate Lynch our client at Curaleaf (the largest and most reputable cannabis brand) and Vince Kadlubek, the founder of Meow Wolf, a unique arts inspired immersive experience taking people to new places and spaces. We’ll be talking hallucinogens, brands, cannabis in Minnesota, art inspired immersion, and so many more fantastical subject areas.
This week on the podcast, our two speakers will take us into sustainable design, beauty products and entrepreneurship through the lens of two inspired founders, Susan Griffin-Black founder of EO Products and Nora Schaper founder of HiBAR. If either of these brands is new to you, we’re here to get you caught up with some good happening in the world.
We have Joe Pine and his co-author Maureen Bosh of The Experience Economy- he one of the books that inspired Aaron Keller and Brian Adducci to start Capsule in the first place. Maureen is most known for leading the Minnesota Super Bowl experience, but has also led the Mall of America, an experience visited by guests from around the world. If we could guess, there’s likely some talk about experience design on this one.
On this episode we have the co-founder of Oatly oat milk, Björn Öste and TD Dixon the Chief Growth Officer at Post Consumer Brands and formerly of Jack Link’s where he turned a dried protein brand into a cultural icon. We will cover topics about how aged brands can become relevant again and new brands can hit a cultural stride and face exponential growth. And, if you’re unaware of the oat milk revolution, you might want to call up ...
Food and clothing, what more is there to life?
How could a pairing be better than Jessica Appelgren from Impossible Foods and Erin Wallace from thredUP. We may have to end Think & Link on this episode, retire our airpods and call this one our grand finale. Here’s why.
We will be talking about the most important and innovation driven brand in meats, a non-meat food company (Impossible Foods). Combine this with the brand (thredUP...
What do Delta Airlines and the National Gallery of Art have to do with each other? Any guesses? We’ll give you part of the answer- they are both thoughtfully designed experiences. Joining us today to talk more abundantly out this is Gail Grimmett, Sr Vice President at Delta Airlines and the Chief Experience Officer at Wheels Up. She will be on the stage with Eric Bruce the Head of Visitor Experience at the National Gallery of Art. ...
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