Episode 52: Compassionate Leadership in High Tempo Teams with Sigit Adinugroho
Wed Jan 28 2026
Sigit is a Lead Product Designer with 17+ years of experience at companies like TripAdvisor, Shopify, Expedia/Vrbo, and DBS Bank. Based in Singapore, he combines deep craft expertise with people leadership and is known for his direct, no-nonsense communication style. He also writes the "Unlearn UX" newsletter and authored Forever an Impostor.
Hear us cover:
As leaders we're taught to effectively manage up and around, but much of it also effectively managing down
Your team = your asset, if you care for them, they take care of the business
Compassionate = genuinely caring about positive intent, practicing radical candor, be "with" them in good and bad, understand motivations
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Sigit is a Lead Product Designer with 17+ years of experience at companies like TripAdvisor, Shopify, Expedia/Vrbo, and DBS Bank. Based in Singapore, he combines deep craft expertise with people leadership and is known for his direct, no-nonsense communication style. He also writes the "Unlearn UX" newsletter and authored Forever an Impostor. Hear us cover: As leaders we're taught to effectively manage up and around, but much of it also effectively managing down Your team = your asset, if you care for them, they take care of the business Compassionate = genuinely caring about positive intent, practicing radical candor, be "with" them in good and bad, understand motivations