#71 Pivoting from Architecture to Tech with Kat Dovjenko

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kat Dovjenko is the Senior Creative Director at</span> <a href= "https://www.museandcompany.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Muse & Company</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.  Inspired by the dynamic energy around architecture and urban planning, Kat believes that the more complex, ambitious, and unsolvable the problem, the better. She drives talented teams to unite and achieve outcomes they would not be able to do individually—at multiple scales and in multiple stages of the design process. She most recently worked at</span> <a href="https://rdlab.team/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Google's R&D for the Built Environment</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">where she oversaw workplace innovation projects. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kat loves navigating speculative pockets of the future and weaving together how they might impact our built spaces. She never shies away from ambiguity, and is skilled at using foresight and storytelling to propel leading edge technologies into real products for the built world and beyond. She studied Finance in Vancouver, Canada, before earning her Masters in Architecture from the University of Toronto.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode we talk about:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kat’s role as Senior Creative Director at Muse & Company</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her career journey and pivoting from architecture to tech</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Advice and resources for people who want to work in tech</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kat’s experience working at Google</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">How switching careers can often feel like burning off a piece of your identity</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why architecture as a profession has such a grip on people’s identities</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">On not tying your identity and self worth