Episode 48: Tom Waller—Integrated Sustainability, Being Safe to Express & Goal Setting
On episode 48 Tom Waller shares his journey into the unknown intersection of sports, technology, innovation and human potential. Currently Tom is the SVP Advanced Innovation, Chief Science Officer at lululemon in Vancouver and in our conversation he talks about what creating healthy corporate culture at work looks like, the power and importance of goal setting and getting comfortable with failing as a means for learning. Tom shares his perspective on purpose, how a variety of perspectives can contribute to richer problem solving for a company and approaching old issues from a new direction, finding the intersection between the human and the product experience. He shares some of his thoughts on sustainable design process, as well as what lululemon has set out to do holistically.
“The most innovative solutions in the future are the most sustainable. Not just because they have to be, but because that is where the novelty starts to come to life.”