Episode Overview

For tech companies, finding the right balance between powerful tech and human-centered design can be a gargantuan task. Maryam Nabavi, Co-Founder and CEO of Babbly, believes that having a deep emotional connection to your mission is the key.   

Maryam is the former Vice President of product visioning at Idea Couture. There she helped Fortune 500 companies develop game changing products at the intersection of technology and human-centered design. 

Currently, Maryam is the Co-founder & CEO of Babbly, a company that’s on a mission to help parents track their baby’s development while getting support along the way. Babbly’s vision is to become the brain of the nursery and to give millennial parents a full view of their child’s health and development data.  

“Resilience can be grown – especially if the reason you and your company exist is clear to you.”

On this week’s THRIVE Podcast, sponsored by the Business Development Bank of Canada and Scotiabank, Maryam discusses the importance of having an emotional connection to your product, the intersections of AI and human-centered design, and the realities of being a woman in the tech space.

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