Alan Moore is a craftsman of beautiful business. He is a business innovator, author, and global speaker whose life’s work centers on one simple but radical idea: beauty is not a luxury in business, but a necessity.

He has designed everything from books to organizations, working across six continents with artists, entrepreneurs, and leadership teams. He has advised companies including PayPal, Microsoft, and Interface, taught at institutions such as MIT, INSEAD, and the Sloan School of Management, and helped guide some of the world’s most innovative enterprises.

He is the author of four books, including No Straight Lines: Making Sense of Our Nonlinear World and Do Design: Why Beauty Is Key to Everything. His work has been featured in outlets such as the BBC, The Guardian, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and The Huffington Post.

In this conversation, we discuss:
Beauty as a sense of homecoming to self, family, and the natural world
Why beauty is felt in the body, not just understood in the mind
Beauty as something soulful, universal, and deeply human
Living and working through the transition from analog to digital culture
Innovation as seeing latent potential and unmet human needs
The idea of beauty as the “ultimate metric” for decision-making
How beauty challenges dominant ideas of success, value, and the good life
Beauty as a quest for truth rather than surface aesthetics
What it means to create something like a jewel
Inevitability in design
Beauty as a metric for innovation
The distinction between extractive and regenerative approaches
Beauty as a verb and everyday practices for “doing beauty.”

To learn more about Alan’s work, you can find him at:
https://thebeautifuldesignproject.com/

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