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Making Others Successful with Your Design Agenda

Posted by on 02 February 2017
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Vince Voron. Photo: Paul Sakuma Photography

FUSE 2017 presenter Vince Voron, VP, Executive Creative Director of the Brand Content Experience team at Dolby, oversees design, brand, experiential marketing, the Dolby Theatre??, and the Dolby?? Institute. He came to Dolby after leading marketing design teams at Apple and Coca-Cola.
As a preview to his presentation <a data-mce-href="https://marketing.knect365.com/fuse/speakers/vince-voron-" href="https://marketing.knect365.com/fuse/speakers/vince-voron-" target="_blank"'Making Others Successful with Your Design Agenda: Leveraging In-House 'Creatives' to Evolve Brands and Inspire Innovation,' Vince shares his insights on how a global mindset can help you thrive personally and professionally.
Peggy L. Bieniek, ABC: How did living and working in multiple countries shape your character and career?
Vince Voron:
Living abroad was a humbling experience that provided activities and experiences that I had never imagined. I am so fortunate and grateful to have been exposed to so many diverse cultures, both personally and professionally, during such a moldable portion of my life.
Spending the first 10 years of my professional career working in Singapore, France and Ireland had a dramatic impact on how I communicated with and inspired my colleagues and external partners. The diverse cultural experiences of those three countries alone helped me to construct the values I have today. Living within that diversity provided introspection and outlined the cultural and business values most important to me.
My experiences abroad were also profoundly enriching from a visual standpoint ' in very different ways ' from food to architecture to landscape to fashion. I learned to speak French, I became fascinated with cultural differences, and I gained a solid appreciation for navigating new locales that were so very different than from where I grew up in Pennsylvania. In addition to those first 10 years solidifying my career foundation, they also had a profound impact on me personally, as I met my wife while I was working in France.
PB: How did your work at Coca-Cola and Apple influence your work at Dolby?
VV:
I like to say I earned my design chops at Apple and learned my brand knowledge at Coca-Cola. The fusion of working for so many years at these great companies has been one of the greatest assets to enable me to build teams that create thoughtfully-designed experiences that can be scaled and appreciated on a local level, globally.
My global mindset definitely helped me to thrive and survive in two such different corporate cultures as Apple and Coca-Cola, where the work and leadership styles vary vastly.
One of the parallels of working at Coca-Cola that has also helped me at Dolby is the importance of partnerships with other corporations. Both Coca-Cola and Dolby have very integrated co-branded partnerships around the world, and that ability to integrate and synthesize two great brands together, while preserving the authenticity of each, takes time, persistence and patience to do well.
PB: How do your leadership values support your creative work?
VV:
Trust and transparency are two leadership values that I seek to strive for in my own work and in that of the teams I lead. It is so very important for a leader to earn trust with their teams, and that takes time and significant engagement on a day-to-day basis. It also requires taking the time to understand how different personalities and subject matter experts are inspired, how they work and how they think.
Delivering trust and transparency is a principal element as a leader, but at the same time it's really important that my team members reciprocate that as well, and for them to be transparent with me, they have to trust me. It's that two-way street. It's paramount in all relationships, but especially with a leader who has to work harder to develop and maintain that trust and transparent communication highways.
PB: What role does a collaborative culture play in building a strong brand?
VV:
Accountability and expectation-setting are at the core of successful collaboration partnerships that are effective. At the beginning of a project, I spend a lot of time assessing and determining roles and accountability amongst team members. I find that by taking this time at the onset, it opens up these channels for my team to challenge me, or me to challenge them, in a non-emotional way.
One of my primary philosophies is how can I make others successful. And collaboration is closer to diplomacy than business negotiations ' it's really important for everybody to experience something positive throughout the process.
PB: What do you see as the next phase of design at Dolby?
VV:
We continue to work on creating holistic Dolby experiences as well as inspiring our partners with our technologies to help them create and enable amazing experiences. The globalization of the Dolby Cinema?? platform is one of our key initiatives that I'm really excited about because we have curated and designed every moment of that movie-going experience from the moment you walk in until the time that you leave. All that attention to detail that we've put into this platform - including architecture, design, imaging and audio technologies - is truly compelling. We also strive to look for new opportunities where our technology can improve audio and visual experiences at home, at work and on the go.
PB: What will people gain from attending your conference presentation?
VV: I'll be sharing insightful stories from my experience working in the design teams at Apple, Coca-Cola and Dolby, as well as methodologies and anecdotes that have helped these great global brands become even greater. If there's one thing that I've learned from all my years in design, it's that if a brand can learn how to tell a great story and deliver a great experience, they will capture the hearts and minds of their consumers, and in turn, strengthen the bottom line of the company. I'll be sharing practical insights on how great brands have developed and leveraged entertaining storytelling to engage consumers and build brand love.
Want to hear more from Vince? Join us at FUSE 2017. Learn, network and share best practices with the most influential leaders in brand, design and marketing. Stay connected at #FUSEdesign.

Brilliance@Work profile originally published on www.starrybluebrilliance.com

Peggy L. Bieniek, ABC is an Accredited Business Communicator specializing in
corporate communication best practices. Connect with Peggy on
LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, and at www.starrybluebrilliance.com.

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