Good Practice presented by Stocksy

In Episode 3 of our Signs of Life season, BCG creative strategists Melanie Stetter-Hernandez and Matt Ingram join us to explore how the brain and emotions are engaged through design, coming together to shape strategic decision-making at the highest levels of business.With backgrounds spanning neuroscience, global brand management, and creative direction, the Design Studio specializes in translating complex strategy into clear, resonant narratives that leaders can act on. Bridging gaps between data,

In Episode 2 of our Signs of Life season, marketing leader and CMO Jason Madhosingh—a.k.a. Madho—joins us to talk about empathy, innovation, and the evolving role of creativity in global business.With experience spanning global startups, and social impact organizations and China’s burgeoning financial sector, Jason has built a career around applying deep customer insight to drive meaningful growth. As a cofounder of Xendo and principal of his own consultancy Madgood, he’s worked to bridge

At Realeyes, Max helps brands and platforms decode audience reactions using AI-powered face and emotion tracking. With a career spanning leadership roles at Nielsen, Syncapse, and SocialCode, he’s built a reputation helping launch and scale tech solutions at the intersection of advertising and data. “Technology isn’t about replacing creative intuition,” he says. “It’s about giving teams better signals to build with.”Emotion AI sits at the intersection of empathy and efficiency, able to both capture

What separates the good from the great in creative work? According to Amy Carvajal, it’s not just originality—it’s curiosity, craft, and the willingness to ask better questions. A highly-lauded creative exec, former CCO at agencies like Code & Theory and McCann, and founder of Amy & Co, Amy helps brands turn values into action. In this episode of Good Practice, she shares her insights on what makes work stand out, how AI is shaping the creative process in marketing, and why sometimes the

How do we move from a culture of consumption to one of considered curation? For Kristen Naiman, Chief Creative Officer at The RealReal and co-founder of A Piece Apart, the answer begins with listening—to ourselves.In this episode of Good Practice, hosts Trace Cohen and Genevieve Ross sit down with Kristen to explore how style, objects, and storytelling intersect to form a personal radar—one that guides not only what we choose to wear, but how we shape our spaces, communicate our identities, and lead

In the first episode of our inaugural season on the theme of Conscious Curation, Mach 49’s Chief Brand Officer shares his practice of helping brands unlock value.A practice at the heart of our work at Stocksy, curation is an adaptive mode of thinking — one we share in common with many disciplines within the creative industries. Creativity isn’t just about having good ideas—it’s a mix of taste, instinct, and just enough overthinking to keep things interesting.Together, Stocksy C.E.O. Trace Cohen and