About Topaz

Topaz is an Emmy award-winning writer, director, and experience design architect. He is an Edmund Hillary fellow and Sundance/Skoll stories of change fellow. His works have been selected to Cannes, Sundance, IDFA, and SXSW; featured in New Yorker magazine, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times; and have garnered an Emmy for new approaches to documentary and Two World Press photo awards for immersive storytelling and interactive documentary. He is currently the founder and executive director of the experience design studio The Skin Deep. Topaz studied philosophy at UC Berkeley and Oxford University. He speaks four languages and currently lives in Mexico with his wife and two children.

Today We Talked About

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Asking Questions
Questions should be gifts
Create the Space for questions
Create the boundaries and the intention
Create the agenda
Who ask the question, has the power
Ask a connected question
People want to be seen
Conversations need to be safe… they don’t have to be comfortable.
Sitting in the discomfort of the question
Be Graceful, in your discomfort
Be vulnerable… by listening
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