AGL 402: Asking Good Questions with Topaz Adizes

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About Topaz

Topaz is an Emmy award-winning writer, director, and experience design architect. He is an Edmund Hillary fellow and Sundance/Skoll stories of change fellow. His works have been selected to Cannes, Sundance, IDFA, and SXSW; featured in New Yorker magazine, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times; and have garnered an Emmy for new approaches to documentary and Two World Press photo awards for immersive storytelling and interactive documentary. He is currently the founder and executive director of the experience design studio The Skin Deep. Topaz studied philosophy at UC Berkeley and Oxford University. He speaks four languages and currently lives in Mexico with his wife and two children.

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Today We Talked About

• Topaz Background
• Asking Questions
• Questions should be gifts
• Create the Space for questions
• Create the boundaries and the intention
• Create the agenda
• Who ask the question, has the power
• Ask a connected question
• People want to be seen
• Conversations need to be safe… they don’t have to be comfortable.
• Sitting in the discomfort of the question
• Be Graceful, in your discomfort
• Be vulnerable… by listening
• THE AND { }
• 12 Questions

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Connect with Topaz

• Website
• YouTube
• Book
• LinkedIn

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