Design Fuel Podcast: "Strategy + Systems" with David Grandy
June 3, 2026
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Healthcare is one of the most complex systems society has ever built. So, what would it take to fundamentally change it?
In the latest episode of the Design Fuel podcast, host David Polzin connects with healthcare strategist and innovator David Grandy to explore that question.
Grandy's career has spanned leading strategic innovation efforts within major health systems, including Kaiser Permanente, where he helped launch Risant Health, the organization's ambitious effort to expand value-based care through partnerships with community health systems across the country. He's also worked within a major architecture and engineering firm where he shaped not just the ideas behind transformation, but the execution of them in real spatial terms.
The episode examines the role of design in system-wide transformation, the challenges of scaling value-based care, the tension between patient and workforce needs, and why looking beyond healthcare may be one of the best ways to understand where the industry is headed next.
About Design Fuel
Hosted by CannonDesign's Executive Director of Design, David Polzin, and rooted in our Living-Centered Design ethos, the Design Fuel Podcast features thought-provoking and necessary conversations around the ideas and forces driving innovation in the built environment and beyond. It amplifies the role design can play in shaping a more equitable, healthy, sustainable and beautiful world.
