Listen "045 • SHARLENE KING"
Episode Synopsis
Our guest is Chicago-based designer and innovation executive at Salesforce, Sharlene King — she is skillful, wise, and unapologetic.
In this episode, Sharlene speaks with host Christian Solorzano about the art of listening, education, art/design school, generosity, taxidermy, her love for her 1989 Honda Civic, and much more.
She walks us through her introduction to design by way of working security at a museum and the path toward her career as a designer championing accessibility and authenticity within the creative process. Sharlene shares valuable lessons from her adolescence and explains her enthusiasm for new technologies that will evolve creativity, the commonalities between design and taxidermy, and life as neurodivergent.
Music by the band Eighties Slang.
In this episode, Sharlene speaks with host Christian Solorzano about the art of listening, education, art/design school, generosity, taxidermy, her love for her 1989 Honda Civic, and much more.
She walks us through her introduction to design by way of working security at a museum and the path toward her career as a designer championing accessibility and authenticity within the creative process. Sharlene shares valuable lessons from her adolescence and explains her enthusiasm for new technologies that will evolve creativity, the commonalities between design and taxidermy, and life as neurodivergent.
Music by the band Eighties Slang.
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