Design & Innovation Executive - Stephan Clambaneva

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Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Stephan Clambaneva, Partner at PARK and Executive Board Member at IDSA, located in New York, NY, USA.

What's your business, and who are your customers?

I am in the Innovation and Design Leadership Consulting space. My customers are creatives, innovators, designers, and anyone that manages or leads creative, innovation, or design organizations with a large organization or has their own agencies.

Tell us about yourself

I consider myself a design hybrid that uses Design, Circular Innovation, and Engineering to transform companies. I wear multiple hats and look good doing it! I am an ideator, inventor, startup mentor for multiple accelerators, IBM+Dassault Systemes Alum & design value evangelist. I am a Partner for PARK, and I serve on the Board of Directors for the Industrial Designers Society of America IDSA's BOD & advises NYCxDesign, the organization behind New York Design Week. I am motivated to leave the world better than when I came into it.

What's your biggest accomplishment as a business owner?

At a high level, it is seeing a client succeed by leveraging what we worked on together. Building a holistic framework for sustainability with an implementable roadmap that can be applied across any organization.

What's one of the hardest things that come with being a business owner?

I believe this can be different for every business owner. My challenge is to maintain focus and ensure I don't take on too many things at the same time.

What are the top tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a business today?

My top tips for an entrepreneur are the same as I tell the startups I mentor and can be summarized in 3 words:

  1. Balance. Start with a clear, implementable strategy - balanced between thinking and doing.
  2. Trust. Invest time in finding the right resources - people, processes, and tools that you can trust.
  3. Network. Focus on executing - leverage the network you have built.

Where can people find you and your business?

Website: https://www.clamba.net/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stephan.clambaneva
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clambanet/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/clambanet
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanclambaneva/

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