Leading Logitech to a Greener Future: Malin Leschly’s Sustainable Design Strategy

Join host Ian Peterman in a thought-provoking discussion with Malin Leschly, Chief Design Officer at Logitech, about integrating sustainability into design and brand innovation. Malin shares insights from her background and her strategic role in steering Logitech’s design ethos towards sustainable practices. Discover how Logitech balances user experience with environmental responsibilities, explores new materials, and approaches product packaging with sustainability at the forefront. This episode dives deep into the challenges and successes of creating eco-friendly products that are both durable and desirable.

Notable Moments

0:52 Design At Logitech Focusing On Insights And Circular Economy
06:05 Product Design And Packaging For Logitech's Education Products
14:07 Sustainable Design And Packaging In The Tech Industry
23:26 Materials, Repairability, And Circularity In Product Design
28:51 The Art Concept And System Thinking

About Malin Leschly

Malin is the newly appointed Chief Design Officer at Logitech. As a design and brand strategist specializing in innovation, along with a Stanford MBA, and more than 20 years of experience across fast-moving consumer goods and consumer electronics, she is a hybrid thinker that operates at the intersection of business and design.

Bringing together her interests in strategy, design, branding and entrepreneurship, Malin co-founded the nationally recognized San Francisco based retail company Flicka, which mixed the latest from established and up-and-coming designers from the Scandinavian fashion and design scenes.

Malin has also served as Board Chair and on the management board of the Stanford Alumni Consulting Team, which engages Stanford MBAs in providing pro bono management consulting expertise to nonprofits.

Learn more about Malin Leschly and Logitech:

We are a global non-profit working to connect and inspire designers through programs, awards, and events, to create a global circular society through the principles of Conscious Design.