Why Women Leave Design, and What Actually Keeps Them | Alba Bayona

S5E19 - Why Women Leave Design, and What Actually Keeps Them | Alba Bayona

Published: August 12, 2026

Duration: 1:20:17

What does it take to go from a one-way ticket to London with no job, to a seat on the board of one of the UK's best known bathroom manufacturers?

In this episode of Why Design, Alba Bayona shares the belief that sits at the heart of her work: that curiosity is what actually builds a design career, and that leadership only works once you stop pretending you can be good at everything, all the time.

Rather than settle into one discipline early, Alba built her own jewellery brand alongside a full time design job...