What is Innovation?: Recent Episodes
Jared Simmons
Weekly conversations with experts and practitioners in a variety of fields about what innovation is and how we can all get better at it.
Innovation is evolving - are you? In a recent conversation with Pam Buchanan, founder of Quantum Sense, we explored the deeper dimensions of innovation. Pam challenges us to think beyond products and technologies, emphasizing that true innovation starts at the soul level. "Innovation is about evolving yourself, evolving your environment, and evolving the world," says Buchanan. She argues that by focusing on soul health and creating positive, love-based environments, we can unlock unprecedented levels of creativity and innovation. How are you fostering a culture of soul-driven innovation in your organization?
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Episode Guide:
0:00 - Intro
0:53 - What is Innovation?
3:21 - Love-based vs Fear-based Innovation
6:15 - Innovation as Living and Evolving
11:21 - Elon Musk and Connectedness in Innovation
14:51 - Geographic Distribution and Innovation
18:33 - Creating Optimal Environments for Innovation
21:23 - Soul Health and Innovation
25:05 - Soul-driven vs. Intellect-driven Innovation
29:43 - Advice for Innovators
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Pam Buchanan, the founder of Quantum Sense, stands at the intersection of corporate prowess and soulful innovation. With over 40 years of experience in corporate America, including pivotal roles at Nasdaq where she worked closely with tech titans like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, Pam brings extensive experience to the table. Her journey to Quantum Sense began with a profound assertion: that the modern world is missing a focus on a very vital contributor to success, Soul Health.
Pam has developed programs tailored for companies that are proven to enhance employee well-being, reduce anxiety, and boost creativity, ultimately fostering a more satisfying work-life balance. Covering topics from neuro-aesthetics to sound engineering, Pam explores how these can be used to benefit the soul from the outside in, through the gateway of the senses.
More about our guest:
- Pam Buchanan
- Company: Quantum Sense
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management
Innovation: Driving Better Outcomes or Reinforcing the Status Quo? In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, true innovation is more crucial than ever. But what separates genuine innovation from mere change? David Sinkinson, co-founder of AppArmor and author of "Startup Different," offers a thought-provoking perspective: "Innovation is not changes that reinforce the status quo. It's about doing something differently with better outcomes." How can leaders ensure their initiatives truly innovate rather than simply maintain the current state? Are your organization's "innovations" creating value or just shifting it?
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Episode Guide:
0:00 - Intro
0:59 - What is Innovation?
4:25 - Importance of being mission-driven
8:43 - Data-driven innovation
14:18 - What isn't innovation?
19:27 - Innovation's impact on career
24:49 - Advice for innovators
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Brothers David Sinkinson and Chris Sinkinson are proven SaaS entrepreneurs. Their bootstrapped startup, AppArmor, helped keep people safer with innovative mobile apps and emergency notification solutions for individuals across the globe. In February of 2022, their company was acquired by US competitor Rave Mobile Safety for tens of millions of dollars. Later in 2022, Rave and AppArmor were acquired for over $550 Million by Motorola Solutions. Now Dave and Chris have launched Startup Different - a book and podcast to help show you that there’s another, better way to build your business. Startup Different debunks startup myths, tackles some of the toughest challenges and gives you the tools to build your business. These down-to-earth founders prove making a successful startup has little to do with unicorns or ten-baggers and instead focuses on a proven, different method for startup success.
More about our guest:
- David Sinkinson
- Podcast: Startup Different
- Book: Startup Different
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management
Join us in a profound discussion with Rani Al Hajji, a trailblazer in the FMCG sector with over 25 years of experience at leading companies like L'Oréal and Colgate. Rani shares his unique insights on turning complex technologies into consumer-friendly solutions that not only innovate but resonate widely.
"Innovation has 4 criteria: it has to be new, it has to bring a positive dimension to people. It has to be easily understood, and it has to make commercial sense ." - Rani Al Hajji
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Episode Guide:
0:00 - Intro
0:51 - What is Innovation?
5:05 - Consumer Needs in Fast Moving Consumer Goods Industry
8:47 - Sustainability in Innovation Processes
10:00 - Balancing Product and Brand Innovation
14:50 - Leadership Style and Innovation
18:50 - Navigating Market and Consumer Dynamics
26:18 - New Environments and Trust-Building
27:05 - Advice for future innovators
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Rani Al Hajji is a seasoned global executive with over 25 years of experience in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry. Having held key roles in renowned companies like L'Oréal and Colgate, Rani has spearheaded innovation and commercial strategies across Europe, North America, and Asia (including notable work in China). His extensive career has been dedicated to transforming cutting-edge R&D and tech innovations into consumer-friendly, marketable solutions that resonate with diverse audiences.
More about our guest:
- Rani Al Hajji
- Company (Firm): We Don't Need Roads
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management
Purandar Das, a two-time CTO and the current CEO of a leading data protection company, shares his insights on redefining innovation in the tech world:
"Innovation is creating a new process, a new product, or a new approach to doing something better—solving a problem that's not been solved before." - Purandar Das
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Episode Guide:
0:00 - Intro
0:56 - What is Innovation?
2:30- The Role of Mobile Technology in Innovation
3:19- From Physical Media to Streaming: A Case Study
9:53 - What Isn't innovation?
11:25 - Innovation, Optimization and AI
13:57- Innovation in Cybersecurity
14:31 - Data security innovation and ransomware protection
20:03 - Evolution of data protection and data governance
23:45 - Advice for future innovators
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Purandar has been a 2x CTO of 2 of the largest marketing services companies & is now the CEO of one of the leading data protection companies; Sotero. Purandar went from Collecting & monetizing personal data to protecting personal data. He made the transition because he was very concerned about the security products on the market & decided they needed a new approach.
More about our guest:
- Purandar Das
- Company: Sotero
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management
In a world where the term 'innovation' risks becoming a buzzword, understanding its true essence is crucial. Joia Spooner-Fleming, a seasoned innovation executive with a decades-long track record of developing people and products at Procter & Gamble, joins the show to discuss what innovation looks like in practice.
Throughout the process of transforming ideas into value, it's critical to distinguish invention from innovation. Joia emphasizes that true innovation requires a solution that is not only novel but also significantly improves upon existing alternatives.
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Episode Guide:
0:00 - Intro
0:57 - What is Innovation?
2:48 - Market's Feedback Loop
4:53 - Decision Making Process
6:18 - What isn't innovation?
8:11 - Human Curiosity and Solution
9:41 - Organizational Innovation
10:32 - Holistic Innovation Strategy
14:43 - Sustainability Innovation
17:31 - Innovation in Life
25:00 - Advice to Innovators
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Joia Spooner-Fleming is an innovation executive and independent consultant, after a 22 year successful career with P&G. Most recently she was R&D VP for Gillette. Joia has a proven track record of transformational innovation leadership and results. She is adept at partnering with leaders across the business to build unified strategies that capitalize on emerging trends and grow brands. Joia excels at building innovation organizations. She holds a chemical engineering degree from MIT. Outside her professional life, Joia is a voracious reader, devoted mother of two children, and loves walking with her dog.
More about our guest:
- Joia Spooner-Fleming
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management
Join us this week for a conversation with Shanil Ebrahim, Partner and National Life Sciences & Healthcare Consulting Leader at Deloitte Canada! We challenge the common misconception that innovation requires constant efficiency. Shanil shares why some "wasted work" is inevitable, and even essential, for groundbreaking ideas.
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Episode Guide:
0:00 - Intro
0:42 - What is Innovation?
2:20 - Technology in Innovation
3:55 - Innovation: Solving Problems
4:51 - Not (inherently) efficient
7:12 - Innovation, Efficiency, and Problem-Solving
10:40 - Internal usage of innovation processes
13:47 - What isn't Innovation?
17:09 - Dangers of Gen AI
20:26 - New Technology, New Hype, Wrong Implementation
22:38 - Advice to Innovators
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Shanil Ebrahim is a Partner and the National Life Sciences and Healthcare Consulting Leader at Deloitte Canada. He is a senior advisor for clients in the healthcare, pharmaceutical, and retail and special pharmacy sectors, and has supported a diverse set of public and private stakeholders in innovation-based business transformations and technology implementations. Shanil held roles as a Clinical Epidemiologist, Faculty Member and Researcher, and also serves as a Board Director in multiple non-profit organizations focused on vulnerable patient populations.
More about our guest:
- Shanil Ebrahim
- Company: Deloitte Canada
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management
This conversation with Collin Graves, CEO of North Labs, revolves around simplifying complex processes, removing technical debt, and streamlining workflows to increase efficiency and productivity. Jared and Collin also discuss the challenges of managing technical debt in complex systems and the importance of a slow and steady approach to AI adoption.
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Episode Guide:
0:00 - Intro
0:43 - What is Innovation?
2:28 - Impact of Simplification in Tech
5:23 - Consequences of Adding Complexity
9:47 - What is Technical Debt?
11:12 - Technical Debt, Healthcare, and AI
12:20 - North Labs Technical Debt and Innovation
15:54 - Downstream and Future Potential Implications
18:13 - Simplification, ROI, and Innovation
23:19 - Generative AI adoption and data quality
26:18 - AI nuances and ethics in business
30:27 - Gen AI is not intelligence
34:18 - Advice to Innovators
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Collin Graves is the visionary leader and CEO of North Labs, a leading fractional cloud data analytics firm empowering growing companies with data-driven strategies. Under his leadership, Collin has propelled over 1,000 organizations towards transformative success. Before founding North Labs, he served with distinction in NATO Special Operations during his tenure with the US Air Force.
More about our guest:
- Collin Graves
- Company: North Labs
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management
Host Jared Simmons talks with Tatsuya Nakagawa, Co-Founder and CEO of Castagra Products. Tatsuya offers a unique take: "For me, innovation is value creation towards some sort of goal or aim." This reflection springs from the story of his junior high school decision about whether to alter his name to overcome social barriers, highlighting how innovation is woven into the human experience.
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Tatsuya Nakagawa is the Co-Founder and CEO of Castagra Products, a sustainable roof coating manufacturing company. Castagra's Ecodur Roof Coating was voted top "Greenvention" by the reality show Dragons’ Den. Over the past 20 years, Tats has launched hundreds of products and services, co-authored the book Overcoming Inventoritis: The Silent Killer of Innovation (forward by Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple), and spoken to a variety of industry groups including: Chartered Accounts of Canada, Canadian Bar Association, The American Chamber of Commerce, and The International Internet Marketing Association. He’s also written articles for Fast Company, Construction Today, and Industry Week, and has been quoted on CBS News, Global TV, CBC, The Globe and Mail, and BC Business. Tats is the host of the popular C-Suite Network podcast, Specified Growth Podcast. The podcast features interviews with leaders who have overcome adversity, built massive organizations, and made a positive change in the building materials and coatings industry. He also hosts a LinkedIn Live series, Roofer Reflections, where he interviews roofing professionals about their experiences in the industry.
More about our guest:
- Tatsuya Nakagawa
- Company: Castagra Products
- Book Co-authored: Overcoming Inventoritis: The Silent Killer of Innovation
- Tat's Podcast: Specified Growth Podcast
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Episode Guide:
0:00 - Intro
0:42 - What is Innovation?
3:14 - Role of Identity in Innovation
6:28 - Reducing Friction on Identity
11:39 - Importance of Curiosity and Experimentation
13:04 - Finding Mentors
15:47 - Sports Analogies and Innovation
21:37 - Music, Sports, Business, and Performance
28:20 - Overcoming Challenges and Learning from Failures
33:42 - Reflections on Career and Adaptation
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management
Join us on "What is Innovation?" where Jared Simmons discusses what it takes to generate game-changing ideas with Dr. Craig Detweiler, President of Wedgwood Circle and Dean of the College of Arts and Media at Grand Canyon University. Dr. Detweiler shares his insights on innovation: "Innovation is all about changing the game. It shifts the paradigm in ideas, culture, and products, introducing something we haven't seen before."
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Dr Craig Detweiler is the president and CEO of Wedgwood Circle, a philanthropic investment collective funding creative projects of meaning. He is also dean of the College of Arts and Media at Grand Canyon University. In recent years, Dr. Detweiler has worked in various roles within academia, including professor of communications at Pepperdine University, associate professor and chair of the mass communication department at Biola University, and director of the Reel Spiritual Institute at Fuller Seminary. His cultural commentary has appeared on Nightline, CNN, NPR, the New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. His award-winning documentaries include Remand (narrated by Angela Bassett), Purple State of Mind, and unCommon Sounds. In 2016, he was named Variety’s Mentor of the Year, and for years he has blogged at Patheos as “Doc Hollywood.”
More about our guest:
- Craig Detweiler
- Book: Honest Creativity: The Foundations of Boundless, Good, and Inspired Innovation
- Company: Wedgwood Circle
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Episode Guide:
0:00 - Intro
0:49 - What is Innovation?
1:22 - Shifting the paradigm
5:09 - Book: Honest Creativity
10:37 - Creativity, empathy, and entrepreneurship
12:10 - Perceiving and Receiving
16:45 - Entrepreneurship, purpose, and innovation
21:46 - Purpose: what it entails
23:27 - Innovation, purpose, and creativity with an entrepreneur
27:21 - Advice to Innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management
In this episode, Jared chats with Louis Gump, author of "The Inside Innovator: A Practical Guide to Intrapreneurship." In addition to intrapreneurship, they discuss the evolution of innovation, emphasizing the importance of recognizing past achievements and learning from them to inform modern technologies like AI, LLM, and GPTs.
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Episode Guide:
0:00 - Intro
0:50 - What is Innovation?
2:46 - The past, future, and innovation
5:18 - Cycles and positive results between innovations
7:36 - Intrapreneurship vs Entrepreneurship
10:28 - Intrapreneurship and company education
15:16 - Responsibilities in Intrapreneurship
17:21 - Intrapreneurship and innovation in various industries
21:29 - Intrapreneurship and innovation in business
23:17 - Creating: The Inside Innovator: A Practical Guide to Intrapreneurship
25:10 - Intrapreneurship, self-knowledge, and recognizing opportunities in organizations
31:32 - Innovation, optimism, and teamwork
33:41 - Advice to Innovators
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Louis K. Gump is a business builder, transformational leader, and pragmatic optimist. He has worked with some of the most recognized companies in the world, developing talented teams and achieving remarkable success for growth businesses. He has done this from multiple perspectives: as an intrapreneur within large corporations, as CEO and entrepreneur within smaller companies, and in strategic industry leadership roles. Gump is president of Cambian Solutions, which focuses on excellence in innovation, business growth, and team performance. Earlier in his career, he presided over award-winning mobile businesses at The Weather Channel and CNN. More recently, he has served as CEO of two digital media firms and led Cox Media, the advertising division of Cox Communications, the third largest cable provider in the US. Gump has also held leadership roles in a wide range of industry and community organizations, including ten years on the board of the Mobile Marketing Association, where he served as global chairman. He earned an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and a BA from Duke University. He is the author of the forthcoming business book, The Inside Innovator: A Practical Guide to Intrapreneurship (Fast Company Press; March 12, 2024), which will help readers achieve more, build stronger relationships, and increase personal fulfillment through intrapreneurship. While many books have been written for entrepreneurs and C-suite executives, there have been few books focused on the intrapreneurs inside larger organizations, and Gump’s guidebook brilliantly fills that gap.
More about our guest:
- Louis Gump
- Book: The Inside Innovator: A Practical Guide to Intrapreneurship
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management
Nick Jain, CEO of IdeaScale, joins Jared this week to discuss innovation as a process, including how to cultivate a dynamic culture that fosters continuous improvement and the development of new methodologies.
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Episode Guide:
0:00 - Intro
0:46 - What is Innovation?
1:34 - Generative AI and Large Language Models
3:55 - Breaking down 'Organic Process'
6:00 - Innovation of GPS
7:55 - Innovation, Risk Management and Incentives, and the Importance of Failure
9:27 - Framing Perspectives on Success
11:33 - Time horizons and processes
15:48 - IdeaScale
18:30 - What isn't Innovation?
23:16 - Luck vs Skill
25:15 - Advice for Innovators
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Nick Jain is the CEO of IdeaScale, the definitive innovation software company. IdeaScale helps major organizations such as Comcast & state/federal governments innovate faster and better. As a repeat CEO with a proven track record, Nick has also previously led companies in the trucking and men’s shoe spaces. Nick graduated at the top of his class from Harvard Business School and holds a theoretical mathematics and physics degree from Dartmouth. He grew up in a mix of Canada and India and currently lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two cats, Daisy and Dahlia. Nick enjoys running, rowing, and playing poker in his spare time.
More about our guest:
- Nick Jain
- Company: IdeaScale
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management
Innovations that deliver true value to customers are novel and sustainable. This week, Jared is joined by Hunter Hastings, a thought leader blending economics, marketing, and innovation. Hunter defines innovation as "the creation of new economic value for an end user with a viable business proposition." They discuss the subjective nature of value, emphasizing the emotional and intangible aspects that resonate with customers.
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Episode Guide:
0:00 - Intro
0:59 - What is Innovation?
2:53 - New and Sustainable vs Unsustainable newness
5:55 - Silicon Valley Innovation in 1990s - 2000s
10:30 - Invention of Corporations and Managements
13:27 - Partnerships and Aberrant Capitalism
15:37 - Problem Management: Explore and Exploit
17:23 - Digital Enablement and Human Energy
20:40 - Innovation in Business Education
23:35 - Talent Management and Team Science
28:15 - System Theory: Emergence
29:37 - Advice for Innovators
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Hunter Hastings is an economist who took up a career in corporate marketing and occupied the posts of Chief Marketing Officer in a global consumer products business, Chief Executive Officer in a Silicon Valley start-up enterprise, and Senior Partner in a global consulting company. He’s been an advisor to several Fortune 500 clients in the area of customer motivation and service strategy. Hastings has been an adjunct professor at Hult International Business School, the largest global graduate business school, and is the author / co-author of seven books spanning business and economics, and several peer-reviewed economics papers. He holds a master’s degree in economics from Cambridge University in the UK.
More about our guest:
- Hunter Hastings
- Book: Aberrant Capitalism: The Decay and Revival of Customer Capitalism (Elements in Reinventing Capitalism)
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management
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🎙️ Join "What is Innovation?" this week with Anton Skornyakov, a Certified Scrum Trainer and Managing Director of Agile.Coach. Explore how innovation can serve as a systemic solution to complex problems across industries. Anton delves into the layers of innovation, problem-solving, and how 'Agile' methodologies can transform government and business challenges. Discover the impact of storytelling and the perfect solution-situation fit, along with insights from Dave Snowden's Cynefin framework. How can 'Agile' drive revolutionary problem-solving? Tune in
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Anton is a Certified Scrum Trainer with Scrum Alliance and the managing director of Agile.Coach based in Berlin, Germany. Anton's particular interest lies in advancing agile practices outside of product development environments, for example, in non-profit or public organizations or projects related to process improvement. Anton's book "The Art of Slicing Work" is a real-world, low-jargon guide that will teach you the main skill of a successful manager in the 21st century – the ability to master unpredictability.
Learn more about him here:
- Anton Skornyakov
- Company: Agile.Coach
- Book: The Art of Slicing Work
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Episode Guide:
0:00 - Intro
0:48 - What is Innovation?
1:49 - Defining "new" in innovation
3:11 - Layers to Innovation
5:24 - Innovation, problem-solving, and innovation in various industries
7:46 - Problem-focus vs Solution-focus
10:56 - Story-telling in solutions
12:44 - Importance of solution-situation fit
14:36 - Innovation hurdles in governments
15:38 - Foundation of innovation
17:43 - 'Agile' in governments
19:56 - Dave Snowden's Cynefin framework
23:55 - Advice to Innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management
Dive into the world of innovation with Kevin Bailey, a celebrated product designer and expert in hardware market launches. With over three decades of industry leadership, Kevin has empowered over 1,000 entrepreneurs and global firms to transform ideas into tangible, successful products. His approach? Fusing individual talents in a dynamic team to craft uniquely valuable products. Join us in this compelling discussion and share your views: Which is key to innovation success—deep thought, teamwork, or focused opportunity?
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A passionate product designer and business executive, Kevin Bailey helps guide CEO’s, start-ups, and established companies through the maze of product development to a successful, manufacturable physical product fast. After spending over 35 years in design, Kevin is an expert at assessing risk and opportunity when making the hundreds of decisions required to move a vision into a physical product the users will love. Since the late 1980’s Kevin has been on the ground floor of global hardware product innovation, cutting his teeth with Bell Research Lab before moving to Nortel Networks where he worked on the first smartphone development. After founding Design 1st in 1996, Kevin has emerged as one of the most experienced in Canada at stickhandling product development from concept to design, engineering, manufacturing, and go-to market strategies.
As CEO and President of Design 1st, clients and staff rely on Kevin’s strategic vision to guide funding, market entry and the full suite of development decisions. The company’s results with new product development speaks for itself. More than 1,000 entrepreneurs, start-ups, and global corporations such as Ericsson, Motorola, Acer, Stanley Tools, and Christie Digital have brought product ideas to life under Kevin’s guidance. Kevin is a Professional Engineer, Angel and VC Investor and one of Canada’s leading experts at bringing new hardware products to market.
Know more about her here:
- Kevin Bailey
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Episode Guide:
0:54 - What is Innovation?
2:55 - The Role of Teams in Innovation
6:58 - Examples of Effective Team Models
11:24 - Balancing Competition and Collaboration
18:07 - Facilitating Innovation in Teams
26:09 - Distinction Between Useful Products and Business Viability
29:00 - Constraints and Innovation
32:28 - Advice for Innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management
🎙️ Join "What is Innovation?" where host Jared Simmons speaks with marketing expert Reggie James, founder of Digital Clarity. Reggie explores how AI, analytics, and innovative branding redefine digital marketing. He asserts, "Innovation is crafting ideas that deliver value." Learn why innovation strategy is essential for thriving in today's market.
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Reggie James is a distinguished expert in marketing and digital strategy, renowned for driving transformative results for organizations. With over three decades of experience, Reggie has witnessed and actively contributed to the evolution of digital marketing, playing a pivotal role in shaping business models in today's digital-driven landscape. His expertise extends beyond traditional strategies, incorporating cutting-edge technologies like AI, analytics, and brand elevation. As the founder of Digital Clarity, Reggie leads a pioneering consultancy that empowers businesses to achieve their marketing goals. The company, known for its strategic insights and innovative use of technologies, stands at the forefront of driving marketing change and creating lasting value for its clients. Reggie's unparalleled experience and innovative approach have been instrumental in shaping numerous organizations through strategic marketing, advertising, and digital solutions.
Know more about him here:
- Reggie James
- Company: Digital Clarity
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Episode Guide:
0:00 - Intro
1:18 - What is Innovation?
3:01 - Communication Challenges in Organizations
4:40 - Innovation and dynamic processes
6:55 - Innovation through the years
7:56 - Changes in Marketing and Innovation Post-Pandemic
9:50 - AI and Its Impact on Business
15:01 - Impact of External Factors on Innovation
18:52 - Innovation in Ogranizations and importance of culture and values
25:28 - Simplifying Complex Processes
28:24 - Intellectual Humility in Innovation
29:11 - Advice to Innovators
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Niara Nicholas has led marketing and technical teams across globally recognized consumer product giants, including P&G, Johnson & Johnson, and Estee Lauder. Her leadership has been pivotal in pioneering novel commercial and product frameworks, strategically amplifying product reach and identifying lucrative growth avenues—both adjacent and forward-looking. Niara's mission is deeply entrenched in sharing her proficiency in consumer insights, marketing, innovation, and strategic foresight to empower brands in delivering enduring value to consumers and stakeholders alike. Her unwavering commitment lies in enabling brands to navigate the evolving landscape by marrying insight-driven strategies with a relentless pursuit of innovation.
Know more about her here:
- Niara Nicholas
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Episode Guide:
0:46 - What is Innovation?
1:38 - What isn't Innovation?
3:03 - Turning sparked invention to innovation
5:27 - Missing link between innovation and invention
7:27 - Identifying importance and understanding intersection
8:48 - The beauty industry
11:27 - The "N of one"
14:55 - Brand attributes
16:16 - Brand authenticity and innovation
21:17 - Consumer perception and product development
27:31 - Commitment and consumer communication
29:23 - Advice to innovator
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management
🎙️ Dive into the realm of innovation with Helene Cahen, founder of Fire Up Innovation Consulting, on this week's episode of "What is Innovation?" Discover how innovation intertwines with creativity, navigating the evolving landscape of the modern world. Seeking inspiration for your innovation journey? Tune in for Helene's invaluable advice and insights!
Know more about her here:
- Helene Cahen
- Company: Fire Up Innovation
- Book: Fire Up Innovation: Sparking and Sustaining Innovation Teams
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- Blog: fireupinnovation.com/blog
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Episode Guide:
0:49 - What is Innovation?
4:12 - Innovation in the changing world
5:07 - Artificial Intelligence: Tool, regulation, leading companies
9:18 - AI, Innovation, Government Regulations and Politics
11:38 - Collaborative regulation
12:47 - Innovation in Artificial Intelligence
17:06 - Innovation for Professional Development or Self-leadership
19:46 - Creating a team profile dynamic
26:06 - Advice to Innovators
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🎙️ Join us for this week's episode with Katrin Zimmerman, CEO of TLGG USA, on "What is Innovation?"
Katrin shares her perspective on innovation types—evolutionary vs. revolutionary—and dives into innovation portfolios, values, and the delicate balance between investment and ROI. She also offers advice on navigating innovation cycles, confronting AI resistance, and applying innovation across various industries.
What's the impact of 'today's money' on innovation? Considering their innovation portfolios and values, how should companies balance investment and ROI?
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Katrin launched TLGG’s New York office. As Managing Director, she is responsible for consulting services with global clients. At TLGG, Katrin has served and mentored clients on business strategy, digital transformation, marketing transformation and innovation up to the C-suite. Prior to joining TLGG, Katrin co-created the Lufthansa Innovation Hub (named as best digital lab by Capital Magazine in 2017 and 2018) with global responsibility for business innovation where she developed ventures in the services and mobility field from Seoul to Berlin. She has a deep knowledge of digital marketing and growth hacking techniques which enabled new ventures to scale quickly and incumbent players to strategically maximize their ROI.
Know more about her here:
- Katrin Zimmermann
- Company: TTLG
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Episode Guide:
00:49 - What is Innovation?
1:20 - Defining "New"
2:53 - Innovation portfolio and values: Investment vs ROI
4:33 - Innovation cycles and evolution
6:59 - Artificial Intelligence: resistance, fear, and legislation
9:57 - Nuclear power, AI, and GMO
13:04 - Innovation for cross functional teams and environments
15:22 - Innovation cycles in modern large organizations
18:50 - Innovation in different industries, consumer expectations, and Wall Street expectations
24:28 - Katrin's impact to companies
26:44 - Money and Innovation
28:08 - Advice to Innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management
This week, delve into the world of innovation with us on “What is Innovation?” together with Janice Fraser, an innovation expert and author. Explore the challenges of intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship, including imposter syndrome, and uncover the pivotal roles of courage and confidence in venture funding.
More about our guest:
Janice Fraser built a storied career in Silicon Valley as a startup founder, product manager, and confidante for entrepreneurs and enterprise executives alike. From creating the second-ever personal interface to the web in the early days of Netscape, to leading the world’s first user experience firm, Janice has often found herself “sitting at the bleeding edge and making it boring” by figuring out how to make the latest evolutions repeatable, useful, and commonplace.
Janice currently supports “VLOs” (very large organizations) including P&G in becoming more innovative and agile. She also guides several venture-funded startup companies, federal government entities, and non-profit organizations, helping them do more with less, make bold moves and achieve extraordinary results. She sits on the board of the Ohio University Entrepreneur Center and served on The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshop committee focused on the innovation ecosystem for NASA.
Over the years, Janice has been a guest lecturer at Harvard Business School, Berkeley HAAS School of Business, Kellogg School of Management, and Stanford, among others. Drawing on her almost three decades of coaching hundreds of leaders and teams to achieve success, Janice is a sought-after speaker offering audiences around the world the opportunity to learn from her experiences and sharpen their leadership skills, build stronger teams, make meaningful progress quickly, and drive business transformation. Her exuberant big-stage keynotes and practical, empathetic brown-bag talks have become cult favorites.
She is the coauthor of Farther, Faster, and Far Less Drama: How to Reduce Stress and Make Extraordinary Progress Wherever You Lead (April 2023), which outlines a groundbreaking framework for modern leadership that empowers greater alignment and quicker decision-making.
Know more about him here:
- Janice Fraser
- Book: Farther, Faster, and Far Less Drama: How to Reduce Stress and Make Extraordinary Progress Wherever You Lead
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Episode Guide:
0:54 - What is Innovation?
3:39 - Intentionality and routinization
5:08 - Progress and taking space
7:33 - Detrimental aggressive optimism
11:59 - Teaching, impassioned optimism, and the business bestseller lists
14:26 - Statistical data, capital control, and disruptive innovation
19:02 - Disruptive (authentic) innovation
22:49 - Early Innovation adopters and the bell curve
26:26 - Mutual problem between intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship journey
29:53 - Courage, Confidence, Imposter Syndrome, and venture funding
32:09 - Enacting courage
26:14 - Book: farther, faster, and far less drama by Janice Fraser
39:06 - Advice to Innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management
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Peter Compo is the author of “The Emergent Approach to Strategy: Adaptive Design & Execution.” Unlike many strategy authors from universities and consulting firms, Compo’s professional experience was spent working in the “corporate trenches” at E. I. DuPont. Hired as a research scientist, he held leadership positions in product management, marketing, supply chain, business management, and integrated business planning. He left DuPont after 25 years to work full-time on developing the Emergent Approach.
Dr. Compo hails from a multi-generational family of musicians. However, he went on to earn a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the City University of New York before joining DuPont. His mission is to create a new level of clarity on strategy theory and practice to enable organizations in any domain to innovate and achieve their aspirations.
Know more about him here:
- Peter Compo
- Company: The Emergent Approach to Strategy: Adaptive Design & Execution
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Episode Guide:
00:39 - What is Innovation?
4:00 - Evolution is Innovation
4:54 - Process to Innovation vs innovation process
6:25 - Innovation direction in biology
8:00 - Exploiting an Innovation Opportunity
10:41 - Innovation, Evolution, and Business inspirations
13:18 - Innovation and risk management in organizations
16:58 - Practical Questions in Innovation
19:38 - Answering the 5-10 year plan questions
21:17 - Innovation, music, creativity, and cliches
24:39 - Innovation, Jazz, and Discipline
28:28 - South Americas' Mercado Libre
34:02 - Consistency and alignment in group goals
36:11 - Advice to Innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management
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Frederick Cary, a powerhouse entrepreneur and CEO of IdeaPros, a company that guides qualified entrepreneurs through the complexities and pitfalls of the startup world. With his entrepreneurial spirit, Fred started many businesses in different industries, created many successes, and acquired thousands of lessons along the way. His desire to give back to a community of like-minded eccentrics led him to create IdeaPros, the world’s first super venture partner – a company that could roll up its experienced sleeves and provide every entrepreneur with the opportunity to see their vision become a real company with a real product. He also produces a weekly show for entrepreneurs that has been viewed by over 4 million people. As a Top 1% Business Professional, Who’s Who in America, and top-ranked attorney for several years, Fred's personal brand can best be described as: “F CK Average, Be Legendary.”*
Know more about him here:
- Frederick Cary
- Company: IdeaPros
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Episode Guide:
00:54 - What is Innovation?
2:42 - Defining "personalized innovation"
6:50 - Teaching innovation
7:33 - Innovation: Changing perspectives through experiences
10:15 - Making yourself obsolete and market competition
15:15 - Road to Success: Being first in the market vs addressing the market
19:07 - Innovation, Investors, Founders, and Changing the world
22:07 - From revolutionary to evolutionary + breaking down company pitches
23:44 - Influencing pitches and investing
25:42 - Company comparisons: Being the X to the Y
29:32 - Advice to innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
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Merrick Furst, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor and the Director of the Center for Deliberate Innovation (CDI) at Georgia Tech. In 2011, he founded Flashpoint, a first-of-its-kind deliberate innovation studio, to develop formative leaders and exceptional technology startups. Flashpoint was the thirty-sixth startup accelerator worldwide, very early in the development of business accelerators. Both at Flashpoint and at CDI, Furst works with hundreds of founders and innovators and is developing the discipline of Deliberate Innovation.
To date, Furst has personally started eight start-ups. Furst has been teaching entrepreneurship in an innovative form since 2006. He was a professor and the President of the International Computer Science Institute at UC Berkeley, and previously, was a professor and Associate Dean in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University. Furst is known for seminal research in algorithms, complexity theory, and AI. He co-invented probabilistic circuit analysis and planning graphs, which are considered among the most influential breakthroughs in the field of AI planning.
Know more about him here:
- Dr. Merrick Furst
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Episode Guide:
00:54 - What is Innovation?
2:30 - Falling apart vs Continuous innovation
3:18 - What makes a customer?
4:33 - The puzzle of innovation and indifference dilemma
9:03 - Getting Stuck and Unstuck: Only Yes situations
13:49 - Innovation, education, and interdisciplinary knowledge
17:11 - Creating "threads" in curriculum
19:58 - Innovation, Daniel Kahneman's influence, and economics
22:03 - Innovation, utility, and P&G
25:27 - Getting people to reassess
28:38 - Drawing from personal experience on demand and supply
31:13 - Advice for Innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
🎙️ This week on "What is Innovation?" podcast, we're joined by Ajay Malik, CEO of Secomind.ai and AI thought leader
Ajay defines innovation as figuring out how and what to do better. Hear how he connects this definition to his deep knowledge of applying AI to businesses, seeing it as an enabler to that process.
Let us know what you think! 🎧✨
More about our guest:
Ajay Malik is a recognized thought leader in the field of AI and technology, with over 90 patents to his name and two influential books published. His extensive experience and deep technical knowledge make him a captivating speaker, capable of providing valuable insights on AI integration for businesses of all sizes. His appearance on a podcast could attract a large audience of tech enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, and business leaders interested in leveraging AI for business growth.
Ajay's expertise in AI investment and strategic planning can provide valuable insights for listeners interested in financial planning, risk management, and wealth creation. His discussion on identifying the right opportunities and leveraging AI to stay ahead of industry trends could attract a significant audience of investors and business owners looking for guidance on incorporating AI into their business strategies. As the driving force behind Secomind, a company dedicated to seamlessly incorporating AI into products, workflows, and customer support processes, Ajay has demonstrated his ability to bridge the gap between hardware, embedded software, and cloud applications. His insights on the intersection of AI, technology, and business excellence could attract a large audience of listeners interested in retirement planning, wealth creation, and investment management.
Know more about him here:
- Ajay Malik
- Company: Secomind.ai
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Episode Guide:
00:48 - What is Innovation?
3:41 - AI: an enabler of innovation
6:22 - AI beyond automation
8:27 - Applying AI in Secomind.ai
10:31 - AI: The seventh sense
13:33 - Removing bias in AI and innovation
15:47 - Role of AI in process of innovation
16:45 - Advice: Driving innovation adoption in organizations
22:24: - Book: Sapiens
24:41 - Advice to innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
🎙️ We are so grateful to have Joris Hensen, Co-Lead of the Deutsche Bank API Program, on the “What is Innovation?” podcast this week! Joris shares his perspective on innovation as evolution. His insights into how banking is evolving to meet customer needs are sure to spark ideas for how you can use innovation principles to delight stakeholders in your world as well.
Listen in and let us know what you think! 🎧✨
More about our guest:
Joris Hensen is responsible for the Deutsche Bank API Program, which he co-founded in 2015. The Developer Portal of Deutsche Bank gives partners quick and easy access to more than 40 API products, enabling them to connect personalized apps and services and thus open up new areas of value creation. Joris Hensen sees himself as an intrapreneur and is dedicated to exploring how Open Banking and Embedded Finance can change and improve people's lives. In his more than ten years at Deutsche Bank, Joris Hensen has worked as a project manager on various international projects. Early on, he became enthusiastic about innovations and trends and set up a corporate foresight program, in which he developed future scenarios and innovation strategies for Deutsche Bank. He has also been a guest lecturer at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen on the topics of foresight, innovation and design.
Know more about him here:
- Joris Hensen
- Company: Deutsche Bank
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Episode Guide:
0:45 - What Is Innovation?
2:28 - A state of being vs muscle-training
6:50 - Bank innovation:Explanations, transparency, and story-telling
8:37 - Hackathons and Professionalism vs (Stuffy) Corporate
12:32 - Internal Stakeholders and great tools
13:50 - Defining "developers"
17:53 - Unpacking "evolution"
22:00 - Changing Mindsets
29:28 - Advice to innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
🎙️ This week’s “What is Innovation?” episode brings us an engaging conversation with Doug Patton, renowned inventor and author. Listen in as Doug expands on his simple definition of innovation—revolutionary change—and its connection with an inspiring environment. He highlights passion as the essential spark of innovation and discusses how cultivating the right atmosphere contributes to the creative process.
More about our guest:
Doug Patton is a consummate inventor whose work has spanned over four decades, his efforts generating products in over 20 markets ranging from biomedical equipment to fragrance. He has garnered over 200 patents and design awards in having innovated for companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Mercedes-Benz, and Bausch + Lomb. Patton Design, his company, currently serves as the genesis of many products sold worldwide. He consulted with the USPTO as part of the Patent Public Advisory Committee and was the featured inventor in Simon Cowell’s American Inventor on ABC. His affinity for innovation led to his books Conquering the Chaos of Creativity, released in 2021, and Inspirations of Creativity, released in April 2023.
Know more about him here:
- Doug Patton
- Company: Patton Design
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Episode Guide:
1:09 - What is Innovation?
1:36 - Defining "revolutionary"
3:38 - Innovation and the environment of inspiration
5:45 - Book chapter: Incredible sensitivity of creative power
7:24 - Spark of Innovation: Passion
10:52 - Book: Conquering the chaos of creativity
18:23 - An environment of fun and the essence of listening
27:53 - Advice to innovators and change makers
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
🎙️ Our innovation journey brings us perspective from Africa this week, as we talk with Tiisetso Maloma, a renowned South African entrepreneur and author, on the "What is Innovation?" podcast. Tiisetso shares his view of innovation as the process of making one or more things into something profoundly useful, enhancing efficiency in our daily lives. This leads to a discussion on the core concept of utility and the vital intersection of technology and innovation. He also shares his framework of a transformative path from material discovery to proprietary innovation and underscores the crucial distinction between innovation and creativity. Listen, like, subscribe, and share today! #innovation #entrepreneurship #technology #efficiency
More about our guest:
Tiisetso is a South African entrepreneur and the author of ten published books. His work centres around providing simple frameworks for understanding entrepreneurship, innovation, economics, and consumer behaviour. Maloma's books include "Innovate Like Elon Musk," "90 Days to Create & Launch," "The Anxious Entrepreneur," "The Future of Township Economies," "Innovate The Next," and "Forget the Business Plan, Use This Short Model." Tiisetso is also an experienced public speaker.
Know more about him here:
- Tiisetso Maloma
- Buy his books here
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Episode Guide:
0:46 - What is Innovation?
4:57 - What makes something useful?
6:31 - Technology and Innovation
7:55 - Intentionality in Innovation
9:51 - Importance of motion: efficiency and effectivity
12:43 - Material Discovery to Proprietary Innovation
17:19 - Importance of distinguishing what isn't innovation
19:28 - Advice for Innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Nik Forelich, the Founder and CEO of Saritasa, leverages two decades of experience in construction-related services to drive the innovative software solutions that empower businesses for exponential growth. He defines innovation as using technology to enhance businesses.
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With a strategic blend of business expertise, technical aptitude, and forward-thinking vision, Nik transitioned to establish Saritasa, embodying his dedication to a technology-driven future. Accompanied by a supportive partner and accomplished children, his journey exemplifies entrepreneurial excellence.
Know more about her and her company here:
- Nik Froehlich
- Company: Saritasa
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Episode Guide:
0:50 - What is Innovation?
2:43 - Using technology to innovate
6:34 - Technology to create a business-innovative tool
7:46 - 2 Kinds of Business Owners
9:19 - Rundown on Categories for Business Innovation
11:48 - Case example on Business Innovation
13:56 - Customizing Solutions
15:18 - Solving Problems with Nik: Closed and Open Systems
18:10 - Impact of APIs
19:47 - APIs and real-world application
21:37 - Sara Tasa at work, relationships, and facing the challenges
28:30 - What is not innovation?
31:03 - Advice to innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Paul V. McEnroe, the engineer behind the ubiquitous Universal Product Code (UPC) barcode. Paul’s definition centers around an open mind, technical capability, and teamwork. Hear the fascinating story of how the barcode transformed the retail category from the man who was there from the beginning and his advice on the value of patience, returning favors, and how we all can leave a lasting impact in the world of innovation.
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Paul McEnroe is best known for his primary role in developing the Universal Product Code (UPC), the barcode used on every product in supermarkets and the retail industry, and the scanners that read them. In 1974 he received the IBM SCD President’s Award for the development of the Supermarket System including the Barcode “. . . from inception through shipment.” He was co-inventor of the handheld “pistol-grip” scanner that reads barcodes from a distance, developed the magnetic code for stock keeping unit (SKU) marking, and later managed the development of the Token Ring Local Area Network (LAN). In 1984 McEnroe became president of Trilogy Systems Corporation and developed other multi-chip technologies.
Know more about her and her company here:
- Paul V. McEnroe (CalState)
- Book: The Barcode: How a Team Created One of the World's Most Ubiquitous Technologies
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Episode Guide:
0:48 - What is Innovation?
2:07 - Importance of bridging an open mind and the elements of science and technology
3:20 - Modern education and innovation
4:44 - Importance of teamwork
5:39 - What we now know as "barcode": the Universal Product Code (UPC)
7:50 - IBM's role in the creation of UPC and NCRs
11:13 - Working on Magnetic Strips for transit systems
12:34 - The Store Loop and Token Ring
14:52 - IBM, funding, problem-solving, and barcode scanning
20:42 - Gene Amdahl and IBM System 360
22:26 - Winchester Technology: The floppy disk
23:44 - Patience and returning favors
25:39 - Advice for Innovators and leaving impact
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Gideon Kedem, Head of Valen Semiconductor's Automotive Business unit, discusses innovation's deep roots in our DNA and the need for effective management to ensure its impact. He also shares his view on the different types of innovation beyond technology. Finally, Gideon offers his thoughts on technology's direction and emphasizes the importance of taking risks and managing the process.
More about our guest:
Gideon Kedem has led Valen Semiconductor's Automotive Business unit since 2020. He brings more than 30 years of experience in the semiconductor and EDA industries, with various roles at leading companies like Cadence, Intel, and Xilinx. Prior to joining Valens in 2020, Gideon managed sales and business development at Xilinx activities across EMEA, Israel and India, with revenue responsibilities exceeding $200M. He holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and an MBA, both from Tel Aviv University.
Know more about her and her company here:
- Gideon Kedem
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Episode Guide:
1:16 - What is Innovation?
6:19 - Innovation perspectives
7:28 - Innovation in Valens company
11:53 - What isn't Innovation?
15:08 - Intersection of innovation, technology, and art: MoMA
17:46 - Advice to innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Chris Kocek, Founder and CEO of Gallant Branding defines innovation as a fresh perspective on the world and a novel way to frame questions. This conversation explores how perceptions shape innovation and delves into the synergy between qualitative and quantitative approaches in the insight-driven innovation space.
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His company, Gallant Branding, a creative branding firm in Austin, Texas focused on building brands for a better world. Over the past 10 years, Gallant has helped dozens of companies with brand overhauls, new product launches, and data-driven campaigns, resulting in triple digit growth and national recognition.Prior to starting Gallant, Chris worked as a strategic planner at BBDO New York and GSD&M, developing nationally recognized campaigns for iconic brands and highly respected nonprofits, including AARP, Monster.com, Lowe’s Home Improvement, Hyatt Hotels, Ace Hardware, John Deere, and The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation. While he currently spends most of his time working closely with clients to help them tackle their biggest branding challenges, he is also a public speaker and frequent guest lecturer on strategy and insights at colleges around the country. His talks on creativity and innovation have been featured at strategic marketing symposiums as well as TEDxYouth@Austin.
Know more about her and her company here:
- Chris Kocek
- Gallant Branding
- Chris' Personal Blog
- Chris' X (formerly Twitter)
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Episode Guide:
1:28 - What is Innovation?
1:55 - Breaking down patterns
5:19 - The problem of falling inlove with solutions
7:41 - Authenticity vs Perfectionism
10:14 - Missing the moment
12:21 - The value chain
15:13 - The napkin sketch commitment
16:33 - What isn't innovation: innovation isn't creativity
17:40 - Separating innovation and creativity
21:29 - What keeps you busy?
22:34 - Experiences that shaped the innovation approach
26:12 - Advice to innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Discover the essence of innovation in a podcast with Natalie Born, an innovation facilitator, consultant, author, and keynote speaker. She discusses the importance of pattern recognition, balancing authenticity and perfectionism, and the importance of differentiating innovation from creativity.
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Natalie Born is from Atlanta, Ga. She is an Innovation Facilitator, Consultant, Author, Keynote Speaker and the Host of Innovation Meets Leadership podcast. Prior to Founding Innovation Meets Leadership, Natalie held roles as a VP of Innovation, Territory Global, and Senior Vice President of Business Development at a mar-tech firm. Natalie has collaborated on two approved US patents and has over 20 years of experience leading product development, UI/UX, web development, and strategy and marketing teams. Natalie has worked with organizations such as CareerBuilder, First Data, IHG, and ADP, leading major initiatives in over 18 countries. Natalie is married to Aaron and they have two daughters.
Know more about her and her company here:
- Natalie Born
- Innovation Meets Leadership
- Book: Set It on Fire: The Art of Innovation
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Episode Guide:
1:28 - What is Innovation?
1:55 - Breaking down patterns
5:19 - The problem of falling inlove with solutions
7:41 - Authenticity vs Perfectionism
10:14 - Missing the moment
12:21 - The value chain
15:13 - The napkin sketch commitment
16:33 - What isn't innovation: innovation isn't creativity
17:40 - Separating innovation and creativity
21:29 - What keeps you busy?
22:34 - Experiences that shaped the innovation approach
26:12 - Advice to innovators
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Our special guest, Tommaso Buganza, Professor of Leadership & Innovation at Politecnico di Milano, discusses the realm of science fiction and its practical implications on society. Jared and Tommaso also explore ethics, user responsibility, and education's role in nurturing holistic innovators. Tommaso's insights on AI's transformative power and the importance of a critical mindset offer a compass for budding innovators.
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Tommaso Buganza is Professor of Leadership & Innovation at Politecnico di Milano. His research activities are at the crossroad of Technology, Innovation, and Leadership. Platforms are the missing link among them; he teaches Platform Thinking to executives and consults international companies in search for a Platform-based transformations. He is also the Co-founder and Scientific Director of the Laboratory for Leadership, Design and Innovation of SOM-School of Management of Politecnico di Milano. The Lab leverages 30+ internal and external resources for research, teaching and services to companies. Additionally, he is the Co-Founder of Symplatform: a symposium on digital platforms. A new conference aimed at researchers and practitioners in the world of platforms, and the Chairman of the Board of the Innovation and Product Development Management Conference organized by EIASM (European for Advanced Studies in Management). Lastly, he is the Co-founder and Scientific Director of IDeaLs, the research Platform for Innovation and Design as Leadership of SOM-School of Management of Politecnico di Milano.
Know more about him, the univesrity, and his book here:
- Tommaso Buganza
- Politecnico di Milano
- Laboratory for Leadership, Design and Innovation of SOM-School of Management of Politecnico di Milano
- Symplatform
- IDeaLs
- Book: Platform Thinking: Read the past. Write the future.
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Episode Guide:
1:04 - What is Innovation?
3:03 - Forecasting vs Designing
4:04 - Star Trek: Fiction vs Reality
7:16 - Responsibility in the innovation space
11:53 - Artificial intelligence and technological substitution
15:12 - Regulation in Europe and user responsibility
18:44 - Education structure: humanistic responsibility
20:11 - Importance of critical mindset
22:50 - Advice for innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Michael D. Abramoff, MD, Ph.D., a visionary retina specialist, computer scientist, and entrepreneur. Dr. Abramoff shares his view of innovation as a series of small steps and how he works to ensure progress at every stage.
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Michael D. Abramoff, MD, PhD, is a fellowship-trained retina specialist, computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is Founder and Executive Chairman of Digital Diagnostics, the first company ever to receive FDA clearance for an autonomous AI diagnostic system. To transform the quality, accessibility, and affordability of global healthcare through the automation of medical diagnosis and treatment. Dr. Abramoff (gold Fellow ARVO, Fellow IEEE) is the Robert C. Watzke, MD Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of Iowa, with a joint appointment in the College of Engineering.
Dr. Abramoff is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Digital Diagnostics, the Autonomous AI diagnostics company that was the first in any field of medicine to get FDA clearance for an autonomous AI. In primary care, the AI system can instantaneously diagnose diabetic retinopathy (including macular edema) at the point-of-care. Dr. Abramoff developed an ethical foundation for autonomous AI that was used during the design and validation, and regulatory and payment pathways for autonomous AI. As the author of over 350 peer-reviewed publications in this field, he has been cited over 42,000 times, and is the inventor on 20 issued patents and many patent applications. Dr. Abramoff has mentored dozens of engineering graduate students, ophthalmology residents, and retina fellows. His passion is to use AI to improve the affordability, accessibility and quality of care.
Know more about her and their company here:
- Dr. Michael D. Abramoff
- Digital Diagnostics
- Article highlight: 1 in 4 People With Diabetes Have This Sight-Threatening Condition, Study Finds
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Episode Guide:
1:30 - What is Innovation?
2:40 - Breaking down the "steps"
6:11 - Ensuring progress in every step
10:15 - Diabetes Care in the US
12:57 - Diabetic Retinopathy
14:25 - Benefits of getting more people screened
15:57 - Bringing together different domains
17:22 - What is a bio-ethicist?
20:38 - What isn't innovation?
28:59 - What's next for the company?
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Ahmed Reza, Founder and CEO of Yobi, shares his perspective on innovation shaped by his uniquely American experience and the dangers of over-specialization and the importance of ethics, philosophy, and anthropology as we work to solve new problems.
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Ahmed Reza is a tech entrepreneur with a story that reads like a blockbuster movie. He started as a child actor in Bangladesh before becoming a Milken scholar at Cornell University; then working as an engineer at NASA. But his true calling was entrepreneurship, founding successful businesses before creating Yobi, a company that simplifies customer relationship management for businesses. He's also known as the intelligent man's Forrest Gump, forming close relationships with Michael Milken and Dr. Edward Zuckerberg, among others. Ahmed's journey is a testament to the power of hard work and determination, making him an inspiring guest for any podcast.
Know more about her and their company here:
- Ahmed Reza
- Yobi
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Episode Guide:
0:29 - What is Innovation?
2:58 - Education in Bangladesh and America
7:22 - Rebelling from the system
9:54 - Hacker mindset
12:35 - Ethics, Philosophy, and Innovation
17:51 - What the heck is success?
19:55 - Technical education and importance of humanities
24:13 - Pitfalls of over-specialization
29:05 - Reforming education
37:06 - Advice to innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Beth McDaniel, President and Chief of Administration at Reactive Surfaces, discusses the role of creativity in innovation and how to get consumers to demand innovative products.
More about our guest:
Beth McDaniel received her BBA in finance from the University of Texas in 1988, and JD in law from South Texas College of Law in 1996. She has been with Reactive Surfaces since 2006, both as a director/advisor and officer of the company. Beth has 25 years of business experience and 17 years of legal experience with an emphasis on contracts, licensing and business operations. Mrs. McDaniel serves as President and Chief of Administration for Reactive Surfaces, an innovation company in the paint and coatings industry.
Know more about her and their company here:
- Beth McDaniel
- Reactive Surfaces
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Episode Guide:
1:17 - What is innovation?
1:43 - Innovation shaped by career
3:27 - Breaking down creativity
6:35 - Bringing Innovation to the market: B2B and B2B2C
7:56 - Innovating for demand and urgency: Carbon Capture Coatings
11:40 - Reaching for ROI
14:37 - Protecting patents and trade secrets
18:40 - Working on reactive surfaces
22:50 - What is carbon capture coatings?
30:01 - Advice for innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Doug Howarth—CEO of Hypernomics, Inc- discusses the concept of innovation, why it matters in today's world, and practical ways to drive innovation in your business
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Doug Howarth's life is a story of remarkable challenges and groundbreaking discoveries. From his fascination with coordinate systems to a life-saving kidney transplant, his journey led him to uncover the concept of Hypernomics—a field that explores uncharted dimensions in market analysis. Driven by newfound clarity, Doug founded Hypernomics Inc. and collaborated with industry giants like NASA and Lockheed Martin, developing innovative software capable of analyzing markets in four or more dimensions. His upcoming book, "Hypernomics: Using Hidden Dimensions to Solve Unseen Problems," will revolutionize conventional thinking. Doug's story inspires us to embrace unconventional thinking and unleash extraordinary breakthroughs.
Know more about her and his affiliations here:
- Doug Howarth
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Episode Guide:
1:30 - What is Innovation?
2:30 - What is "society's next step?"
7:35 - Manifesting over different domains
9:57 - Importance of understanding capacity and price
12:03 - Personal opinions, biases, and hypothesis
15:52 - Space tourism industry
19:16 - What isn't innovation?
23:24 - Increasing value by cost reduction
26:32 - Advice for innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Chris Marshall—behavioral scientist, futurist, and author—offers his thoughts on the impact of innovation on regulation, culture, and the natural environment, in this episode, we explore the essence of innovation as human nature.
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Chris uses his diverse career journey spanning behavioral science, global macro strategy, ski racing, and Master Distiller to help people manage fast-paced change effectively and achieve their goals. Chris's expertise in economics, history, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, and trend research offers practical strategies and tools that enhance resilience, creativity, innovation, and adaptability. He is an excellent guest for podcasts that focus on personal development, innovation, and managing change effectively.
Know more about her and his affiliations here:
- Chris Marshall
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Episode Guide:
1:14 - What is Innovation?
3:08 - Scale of innovation: not a reflection
5:23 - The world in layers and varying speeds
8:07 - Limits to innovation and business pivots
10:14 - Three layers beyond infrastructure
13:30 - The age of awareness and the Gutenberg Press
17:08 - Chronic stress and it's relation to changes
22:28 - Stress and it's influence on the brain
27:58 - Risk management as a behavioral scientist
32:48 - Advice to innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Daniel Trabucchi is a Senior Assistant Professor at the School of Management Politecnico di Milano. Daniel shares his definition of innovation, the role of regulatory bodies in innovation, the distinction between a new thing and a new purpose, and much more.
More about our guest:
Daniel has also co-authored “Platform Thinking. Read the past. Write the future.”. His research interests are focused on innovation management, especially digital two-sided platforms and digital services. He co-founded Symplatform in 2018, the international conference on digital platforms that aims to match scholars and practitioners in the field. He co-founded and is scientific director of Platform Thinking HUB, the community of innovation leaders that aims to foster innovation through platform thinking, which is part of the Digital Innovation Observatories of Politecnico di Milano. He is also scientific director of IDeaLs, the global research platform founded by Politecnico di Milano aiming to develop innovative ways to engage people in transformation processes.
He is a member of the International Product Development Management Conference EIASM-IPDMC scientific committee. He has authored more than 70 scientific articles, including peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters. Apart from academic research, he teaches innovation and project management at various levels, from bachelor’s to master’s, MBAs, executive MBAs, and corporate classes, being also Director of the International Part Time MBA of the POLIMI Graduate School of Management. Moreover, he is often involved in advisory projects with small and multinational organizations in innovation and transformation management.
Know more about her and his affiliations here:
- Daniel Trabucchi
- Politecnico di Milano
- Symplatform
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Episode Guide:
1:35 - What is Innovation?
3:06 - book: Trap of thinking
5:29 - Innovation advancement and regulation
8:09 - Innovation as a new thing vs a new purpose
10:07 - AI as a platform
15:12 - Efficiency and the unintended consequences of such
19:46 - What isn't innovation: it's not innovation if it's not creating value
23:38 - Agile project management
25:03 - Business vs Technology platforms: technical and regulatory perspective
29:49 - Advice to innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Robert Huber role as Twisthink’s first Chief Strategy Officer has been critical to the company's growth and success of their strategy offerings, joins us we explore how innovation sparks creativity in business and the positive impact of a musical background.
More about our guest:
Robert leverages his extensive experience to establish key growth initiatives and partnerships through a global open innovation process, ensuring that Twisthink remains at the forefront of value creation for our clients. With an impressive background in innovation and design, Rob is an expert in generating exceptional long-term value and designing award-winning advanced concepts. Rob’s philosophy centers around building a culture of trust and accountability and fostering an environment where teams can thrive and generate meaningful results. His ability to inspire and motivate those around him has made him a respected and valued leader. Rob earned his bachelor’s degree in industrial design from the University of Cincinnati.
Know more about her and his company here:
- Robert Huber
- Twisthink
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Episode Guide:
1:23 - What is innovation?
1:55 - Stakeholder purpose driven
4:35 - Innovation and user experience
8:08 - Career in innovation
9:44 - Innovation process
12:51 - IP application in the modern world
14:13 - code development opportunity: corporations and start-ups
17:21 - What isn't innovation?
21:56 - Refining the process
26:49 - Hobbies beyond work
27:39 - Advice for innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Peter Schroeder, a multi-award-winning DJ, entrepreneur, and visionary founder of Telzio, joins us we explore how innovation sparks creativity in business and the positive impact of a musical background.
More about our guest:
Peter Schroeder has over two decades of experience, Peter has consistently proven himself to be a pioneer in both music and technology. Peter's unparalleled expertise in developing cutting-edge technology and innovative products has revolutionized the way people work and communicate, streamlining and simplifying even the most repetitive tasks. Peter has collaborated with companies like Facebook, Samsung, and Airbnb. His remarkable career also includes earning over 20 platinum records, 40 gold records, and a triple nomination for the Danish DJ awards. Despite facing challenges such as surviving a plane crash and becoming a father of twins, Peter continues to inspire others with his passion and unwavering drive towards innovation.
Know more about her and his company here:
- Peter Schroeder
- Telzio
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Episode Guide:
1:32 - What is Innovation?
3:47 - Innovation vs Invention
5:04 - Translating music into business and innovation
7:17 - Leveraging technical and creative advantages from a music upbringing
9:55 - Creative mindsets of coders and developers
12:12 - Navigating an AI project under time constraints
13:05 - Reconciling demand and technology
14:30 - Significance of practicing humility and self-awareness
18:00 - What isn't Innovation?
19:27 - Advice for innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Ravi Kurani, Co-Founder of Sutro, discusses the distinction between problem-solving and solution-building, active listening and adapting, what does not constitute innovation, and how to manage energy and create a successful innovation strategy.
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Ravi Kurani is the founder of Sutro. He is based in San Francisco. Ravi was selected to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2017 for the Energy category.Ravi attended the University of California, Riverside where he graduated with a B.S. in Mechanical engineering. He earned his MBA from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and a Certificate in Sustainable Energy Conversion and Storage from Stanford University.Early in his career, Ravi interned at Under The Mango Tree, was a Frontier Market Scout at Village Capital, an Analyst at Hub Ventures, and a Project Coordinator at Building Wise. He was a Social Entrepreneurship Advisor at CORO Northern California and an Advisor to SAHGHATA GLOBAL.In 2011, he founded ImpactSpace, an open impact data initiative, is the open and free global database of companies, entrepreneurs and investors delivering social and environmental impact along with financial returns. In 2013, Ravi founded the water testing and data analytics company, Sutro. The company's main product has built a sensor-connected app that monitors the health of your swimming pool, notifies you if maintenance is required and orders pool supplies.
Know more about her and his company here:
- Ravi Kurani
- Sutro
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Episode Guide:
1:15 - What is Innovation?
1:44 - Solving a problem vs building a solution
2:43 - Importance of distinction: solution
5:33 - Company: Sutro
10:05 - "It's my baby" founder's mentality
12:24 - The value of 'listening" and 'pivot'
13:59 - What isn't innovation?
17:55 - Balancing and Managing one's energy
23:25 - Risk Predictability
26:24 - Risk acceptance and attachment philosophy
29:20 - Advice for innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Robyn Bolton, Founder & Chief Navigator of MileZero, discusses the importance of leadership in driving innovation and how implicit and explicit company cultures affect it. She also shares insights on how to combat cynicism about innovation.
More about our guest:
Robyn M. Bolton is the Founder & Chief Navigator of MileZero, an innovation consultancy that works with leaders of medium and large businesses to navigate the uncertainty of innovation's "fuzzy front end" to confidently grow their businesses. Prior to founding MileZero, Robyn was a Partner at Innosight, the innovation and strategy firm founded by Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, a Manager at the Boston Consulting Group, and a Brand Manager at P&G where she was on the team that developed and launched Swiffer and Swiffer Wetjet. She has a BS in Marketing cum laude with University Honors from Miami University (OH) and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Know more about her and his company here:
- Robyn Bolton
- MileZero
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Episode Guide:
1:24 - What is innovation?
5:29 - Implicit and explicit company cultures
9:50 - Difference from other consultants
11:50 - Cynicism in innovation
14:45 - Action speaks louder than words
17:13 - Leadership and Legacy
22:12 - Advice to innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Peter Mann, CEO & Founder of Oransi, a leading air purification company known for its efficient, intuitive and reliable products for consumers, schools, organizations and businesses, talks on the power of innovation in democratizing the work environment through the internet and AI, along with the innovative developments in the air purifier space and how they reshored their business back to the United States.
More about our guest:
Peter is also is the Chair of the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers’ Air Cleaner Council. In 2021, Oransi merged with Aviemore Technologies and is now a motor technology company with a clean energy mission. Oransi’s new manufacturing facility in Radford, Virginia is making products in the USA with advanced motor technologies and is actively hiring more than a 100+ local workers to reshore the company’s entire manufacturing. Previously, Peter was the Founder & CEO of the Austin, Texas-based Alen Corp., an air purification company he built, and after 7 years had a successful exit. He went to college on a Navy ROTC scholarship and then served 4 years, including a tour in the Red Sea during the First Gulf War. He was a communications officer and then gunnery officer on the USS McCandless. Peter is late diagnosed autistic and now advocates for autism awareness in the workplace
Know more about him and his company here:
- Peter Mann
- Oransi
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Episode Guide:
1:36 - What is Innovation?
4:19 - Communicating with ChatGPT
6:45 - Internet: democratizing work environment
9:19 - Innovation in Reshoring
11:55 - Innovation in the air purifier space
15:23 - What isn't Innovation?
17:42 - Innovating a copy
19:14 - Leveraging brand name
20:15 - Mindset, Drive, and Ideas
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Ion Valaskakis, President at President, Portfolio IV Media and Consulting talks on importance of these factors and their impact on our ability to innovate, including how circumstantial inspiration and the default mode network can affect our creative process.
More about our guest:
Ion Valis is a strategic advisor to entrepreneurs and executives by helping them anticipate the future, accelerate their performance, and reinvent themselves when necessary. He enables organizations to "see around the corner" through two proprietary frameworks that he has developed - the FuturePROOF Scorecard and Playbook. His book 'The Magnificent Mistake' talks on how to learn from your mistakes, he has also given a TEDx Talk on the changing nature of leadership in the 21st century, and hosted a bi-weekly podcast on how to apply the management consultant’s toolkit to everyday problems. Ion plans to launch an online course called "Reinvention Boot Camp" that will empower thousands of people with the tools, skillset, and mindset to reinvent themselves regularly.
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Episode Guide:
2:32 - What is Innovation?
4:35 - Breaking down Inspiration and Intention
6:48 - Circumstantial inspiration: humanistic
9:40 - Lag-time of elements
10:33 - Default mode network
14:52 - Revenge Procrastination
17:06 - Gradual erosion vs falling off a cliff analogy
17:46 - Moore's law
21:50 - Stagnating human innovation
24:02 - Surveillance capitalism
28:03 - Dopamine Capitalism
33:04 - Mind and body connection
35:37 - Best way to be creative
42:27 - Advice for the public
52:30 - The next revolution
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Amanda Utz is a Partner at Avant Strategy. Dean and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Hult International Business School, and a recognized top learning and HR influencer for leadership development. In this episode, we explore the significance of innovation to idea-oriented creative folks, and the importance of an innovative approach to thinking beyond product or service innovation.
More about our guest:
Amanda Utz has twenty years of experience driving change for senior executives at start-ups, private equity-owned businesses, and Fortune 500 companies. she has successfully managed transformational projects across strategy, marketing, sales, and operations for leaders across multiple organizations including The Home Depot, Mannington Mills, and Veritiv.
She has held multiple interim Head of Marketing roles for PE backed businesses (brought in by the PE firms) to hep the businesses quickly set up foundational marketing elements, strategic company and product positioning messaging, lead generation strategies, etc., while also helping with the execution of these tactics. Amanda enjoys partnering with executives to deliver solutions that meet their needs across various functional areas and industries.
You can learn more about her on her LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/amandaswartzutz/
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Episode Guide:
1:25 - What is Innovation?
4:06 - Creative Marketer vs Process-driven Marketer
6:10 - Innovation to idea-oriented creative folks
7:30 - innovative approach to thinking
9:55 - Changes in the corporate marketing world
10:45 - What isn't innovation? A baker-cake analogy
12:52 - Hobbies beyond baking
14:10 - Innovation, travel, and Airbnb
17:04 - Innovating, launching, and promoting
17:44 - The B2B work
22:00 - Innovation in processes
23:32 - Advice to innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Ted Ladd, Dean and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Hult International Business School, and a recognised top learning and HR influencer for leadership development. In this episode, we explore how innovation creates value for anybody, including how we can innovate with respect, affirmation, and confidence, tapping into the minds of platform natives and drawing inspirations from past innovations.
More about our guest:
Ted Ladd teaches innovation at Harvard Universit and has participated in six different start-ups in Silicon Valley, the most recent acquired by Google,. You can learn more about him on his LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/tedladd/
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Episode Guide:
0:56 - What is Innovation?
2:43 - Personal and professional background
3:43 - Book: innovating with impact
6:33 - Respect, Affirmation, and Confidence
8:11 - Affirmation in Innovation
10:48 - 2-step formula
12:35 - Platform natives
13:38 - Palm Pilot, Google, and IPO
15:47 - The mobile internet
17:52 - Innovation impact on an internal basis
20:12 - Innovative ideas from university studies
21:24 - Process-driven innovation
23:52 - Empowering and the effectivity of idea-generation
26:43 - What isn't innovation?
28:16 - Radical innovations
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Ahmad Thomas, CEO of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, the region’s most dynamic business association. In this episode, he shares his view of innovation as paradigm-breaking ideas, and he discusses the impact of innovation on personal career growth.
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Ahmad Thomas, partners with the organization’s member companies to promote entrepreneurial solutions to strengthen Silicon Valley business competitiveness, bolster its innovation ecosystem, and create shared economic value throughout the greater Bay Area. A hallmark of his leadership is in catalyzing industry-leading initiatives to operationalize change around diversity, equity, and inclusion from the Boardroom to the C-suites and beyond. A former investment banker and senior Congressional aide, he brings nearly 20 years of experience working both in and on behalf of non-profit social enterprises, governments, and businesses, where he has honed a deep understanding of the essentiality of public-private partnerships and the intersection of equity, policy, and technology that drives Silicon Valley’s innovation infrastructure. Thomas holds a B.S. from Cornell University, Master’s degree from the London School of Economics, and M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Episode Guide:
1:50 - What is innovation?
3:13 - Professional background
4:34 - What isn't innovation?
5:38 - Paradigm breaking
8:41 - 2023, the year of grace
12:44 - High burnout work
16:37 - Innovation impact to personal career
18:41 - Progress in lived experience
23:43 - Advice to innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Dr. Britt Andreatta CEO, Brain Aware Training, former CLO of Lynda.com (LinkedIn Learning) , and a recognised top learning and HR influencer for leadership development. In this episode Dr. Britt delves into the different aspects that make up innovation, including the importance of psychological safety.
More about our guest:
Dr. Britt Andreatta is an internationally recognized thought leader who uses her background in leadership, neuroscience, psychology, and education to create brain-science based solutions for today’s workplace challenges. Britt is the former CLO for Lynda.com (LinkedIn Learning) and has over 10 million views worldwide of her online courses. She regularly consults with organizations on leadership development and learning strategy. Britt is the author of several books on the brain science of success including Wired to Grow, Wired to Resist, and Wired to Connect. In 2021, she was named a Top 20 Learning Influencer and a Top 20 HR Influencer for Leadership Development and in 2022, a Top 10 Learning Influencer. You can learn more about her on her website, https://www.brittandreatta.com/
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Episode Guide:
1:29 - What is Innovation?
3:29 - Expounding 'work'
5:08 - Walking the talk: A sense of purpose
7:03 - Breaking down Incremental Innovation
9:20 - Insight driven innovation
10:49 - Technology-driven innovation
14:22 - Defining "viable"
16:08 - What isn't innovation?
17:30 - Flashes of insight
21:13 - Psychological safety in innovation
23:09 - Investing in innovation
25:48 - Viability: Innovation process and execution
28:43 - Life outside work
31:50 - Advice to innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Raji Rajagopalan, Author or "Daring to Be Different" and a Partner Director of Software Engineering at Microsoft. In this episode, Raji shares her unique perspective on successful innovation, emphasizing the importance of creating value for humanity.
More about our guest:
Raji Rajagopalan believes that your 'differentness' is your differentiator. She is author of the book "Daring to be Different: Stories and Tips from a Woman Leader in Tech", a collection of stories to help you build the most important skills to have a meaningful career. In the last 20 years in the tech industry, her work has spanned building startup teams, turning around unsuccessful projects, driving engineering rigor, scaling online services, growing global teams, and innovating on products used by a billion+ customers. She currently runs an organization across five countries and four continents. You can learn more about her on her website, https://www.rajiraj.com
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Episode Guide:
1:32 - What is innovation?
3:56 - Micrsoft's leadership principles
4:36 - Career skills
7:13 - Innovation: Software engineer perspective
10:50 - 2nd principle of leadership
14:29 - What isn't innovation?
17:23 - Career advice from mentors
23:55 - Measuring life success
27:44 - Advice to innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Ethan Karp, President and CEO of MAGNET sheds light on the different pillars of innovation and emphasizes the critical importance of people and talent in driving successful innovation. As a millennial CEO, Ethan also shares his insights on navigating the current work culture and leveraging the strengths of a diverse and dynamic team.
More about our guest:
Dr. Ethan Karp is an expert in transforming companies and communities. He’s a committed change-maker and community builder: Board Chair of the Cleveland/Cuyahoga County Workforce Development, and serves as a Director on the boards of; the American Small Manufacturers Coalition, the Cleveland Leadership Center, MidTown Cleveland, Inc., Cleveland Jewish Publication Company and the Jewish Education Center of Cleveland. Dr. Karp is a recognized thought leader on manufacturing issues and a frequent media commentator on the future of manufacturing in America. Prior to joining MAGNET in 2013, Dr. Karp worked with Fortune 500 companies at McKinsey & Co. He received undergraduate degrees in biochemistry and physics from Miami University and a Ph.D. in Chemical Biology from Harvard University. Dr. Karp lives in Cleveland with his wife and three young girls.
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Episode Guide:
1:46 - What is innovation?
5:07 - Four buckets of technology
6:53 - Technology and Innovation: The people (talent) side
8:52 - Technology and Innovation: The company side
9:57 - Technology and Innovation: Culture
11:50 - Assessing Risk Profiles
16:49 - Case Study: Giant Red Barn of Cleveland
20:35 - What isn't innovation?
25:26 - Continuum in innovation
28:40 - Philosophy of leadership
31:14 - Advice for innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Derek Lawson, the Founder - Owner of Navigate Financial in Suwanee, GA. Since becoming a Financial Advisor in 2007, Derek has helped his clients, their families, and friends achieve financial confidence by developing strategies focused on their specific financial goals and needs. In this episode, Derek shares his three-part definition of innovation. This episode also dives into the innovation in the world of financial advisory services.
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Derek and his team seek to always maintain a high level of confidence with their clients as a basis of building trust and reinforcing value. Derek believes that planning is much more than the accumulation of assets for a particular goal but more so a process of helping his clients avoid avenues of failure on the road to goal achievement. Derek is passionate about continuous learning to further advance his planning and investment. Derek earned his MBA from Georgia State in 2012. He is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ holding the CFP® designation and also a Retirement Income Certified Professional holding the RICP® designation. Derek is the proud father of two sons, Lamarrius and Derek II, and two granddaughters, London and Ryleigh.
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Episode Guide:
1:44 - What is innovation?
2:19 - Defining: Unconstrained
3:18 - Defining: Risk
4:50 - Defining: Timing
7:55 - risk in everything
8:43 - Innovation as a Financial Adviser
13:08 - What isn't innovation?
14:52 - Microsoft and Apple: Combination and it's importance
20:47 - Metrics, companies, C-level, and innovation
21:20 - Understanding business models
23:43 - Consumers and Branding
24:57 - The big players: Walmart, Amazon, UPS
29:56 - Advice for innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Jeff Goins is a writer, keynote speaker, and entrepreneur with a reputation for challenging the status quo. He is the best-selling author of five books including The Art of Work and Real Artists Don’t Starve. In this episode, Jared and Jeff Goins shares on how places and locations bring out innovation. They also dive into the value of humility and importance of attention.
More about our guest:
His award-winning blog, Goinswriter.com, is visited by millions of people every year, and his work has been featured in the Washington Post, USA Today, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Psychology Today, Business Insider, Time , and many others. He is the creative force behind the ghostwriting agency, Fresh Complaint.
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Episode Guide:
1:12 - What is innovation?
3:38 - Humility and Audacity in Innovation and Innovators
5:57 - Innovation, humility, and breakthroughs
11:15 - The necessity of 'place'
13:24 - Real artists don't starve; Place in creative work
17:00 - Creating scenes and life-connections
20:15 - Serendipity and Attention: Innovation views
23:04 - Innovation: a root system
24:28 - Role of Music
29:52 - Art imitates life - Life imitates art: Lessons in Attention
32:45 - Music is not a metaphor for innovation
36:12 - Boredom and Attention: reading the signs
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Steven Blue is President & CEO of Miller Ingenuity, an international manufacturer of high technology products that save lives and preserves the environment. In this clip, Steven offers his advice on how senior leaders can destroy their own echo chambers and create an environment where people are comfortable sharing "the whole story," a critical element of a culture of innovation.
More about our guest:
Steven Blue has also has published five books that teach senior leaders and CEOs how to increase profit, take market share, and destroy competition. He created and authored the League of Extraordinary CEO series, a monthly CEO advice column in the American City Business Journals. Steven is a highly-acclaimed keynote speaker and has addressed audiences at Harvard Business School, The United Nations, Carnegie Hall, The Safe America Foundation, Industry Week, The World Safe Summit, CEO Clubs International and Medtronic Corporation. His leadership insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, Fox Business Channel, CNN, CNBC, Forbes, Fortune, CEO World, Business Week and Success Magazines.
Steven serves as CEO-in-Residence at Winona State University. He holds a B.S. Degree from the State University of New York and an MBA from Regis University.
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Episode Guide:
1:15 - What is Innovation?
3:17 - Innovation as a best-selling author
5:10 - Structure and Discipline in Innovation
9:37 - 'Permission' to Innovate
11:54 - Making processes succeed
13:00 - Creating a self-sustaining culture of innovation
14:36 - Culture in 'most' airlines
15:10 - Culture in the heart of innovation
17:20 - What isn't innovation?
18:32 - Having 'multi-dimensional balance'
23:13 - Echo Chambers in companies
24:48 - Destroying personal echo chambers
27:35 - Building foundations
28:35 - Advice for innovators
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Resources Mentioned:
- Book:
- Metamorphosis: From Rust-Belt to High-Technology in a 21st Century World
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Riggs Eckelberryis theCEO & Founder of OriginClear Inc, a public company that aims to rescue business owners faced with fast-rising water bills and build a new investment market in the process. In this episode, we dive into the ways that experience teaches us lessons and how podcasts impact innovation.
More about our guest:
Riggs Eckelberry has spent decades refining a very fast process of doing and learning, that he calls Mistake Based Marketing™. And he used it to achieve multiple software exits during the dot-com boom. Now he’s achieving badly needed change in the massive water industry, to help the most vital – but threatened – resource on the planet: water. As founding CEO of a OriginClear Inc, Riggs has found a completely novel way to rescue business owners faced with fast-rising water bills and build a new investment market in the process. He’s even begun to build “water stablecoins”. Riggs is uniquely qualified to disrupt this industry, having learned management in the nonprofit space, captained oceangoing ships, and a personal passion for rowing crew.
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Episode Guide:
1:30 - What is Innovation?
2:20 - What is the 'Future'?
3:43 - The Sirius Report and the West's unipolar world
5:50 - Lessons and Advantages of the Past
6:27 - Pentagon's Lessons Learned Department
10:14 - Value of Podcasts
11:13 - What isn't Innovation?
16:30 - Personal Career Impact: 2 Categories of Innovative People
18:30 - Keeping fresh thoughts in innovation
22:38 - Innovation: shaping careers
27:02 - Transformative technology: dot-com era
33:18 - Advice to Innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Abi Okeowo is an experienced Strategic Adviser and currently, a General Manager at Capital One. In this episode, they discuss innovation through the lens of internal and external facing aspects of Fintech.
More about our guest:
Abi is an experienced Strategic Adviser that leverages over 15 years of experience from McKinsey and bulge bracket Investment banks (Goldman Sachs, Citi & Morgan Stanley).
Through her company Okeowo & Company, she acts as a strategic & financial partner in quantitative, strategic, and execution oriented roles with Senior Executives and start-up CEOs. Her clients have ranged from large Fortune 100 organizations to small socially focused start - up enterprises that differ in size, maturity, geography and industry.
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Episode Guide:
2:25 - Difference between Digital and Technical Fintech
5:01 - External Innovation in Fintech
6:50 - What is Innovation?
8:10 - Improvement or Innovation: A consumer standpoint
10:39 - Internal Innovation
14:23 - Facial Recognition: A value-add?
16:13 - Shampoo lather: external vs internal innovation
17:04 - Technology: Driving external innovation
23:15 - Innovation vs Invention
24:28 - Advice to Innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Alex Goryachev is the former managing director of Cisco’s global Co-Innovation Center, where he spearheaded programs and initiatives to accelerate innovation. He is a Silicon Valley veteran who is a sought-after speaker on innovation and is often referred to as the ‘innovation therapist’. This episode dives into innovation's role as the natural enemy of bureaucracy and how constrained environments stifle innovation.
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Over the past 20 years, Alex made it his business to turn disruptive concepts into successful ecosystem-centric business models. He has an extensive track record of building and leading global cross-industry business & technology teams focused on revenue and market share growth, increasing customer acquisition and profitability through new digital products and offerings.
Alex is passionate about leveraging innovation purposefully and pragmatically to create opportunities for all. Today, he is serving as Innovator-in-Residence at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Tulane University. He is an active venture partner with Interlock Capital, a community-driven venture fund primarily investing in underrepresented founders and geographies. Alex is also a US delegate and Technical Advisory Group member in the International Standards Association (ISO), defining global common standards for Innovation Management.
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Episode Guide:
1:01 - What is Innovation?
2:21 - Innovation: playful pragmatism
4:50 - Bureaucracy vs Innovation
7:06 - Ability in adapting to change
8:50 - What isn't innovation?
10:25 - Conflations and implications: Idea and Innovation ; Invention and Innovation
12:20 - Quantifying Innovation and Metrics
16:10 - Innovation Indicator: 'Spent'
17:29 - Employee Sentiment Metrics
19:43 - Innovation: Shaping Careers
21:24 - Life outside Work
22:38 - Advice to Innovators
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Resources Mentioned:
- Company: Best Places to Work Rankings: 'World’s Best Workplaces™ 2022'
- Company: Napster
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
"What is Innovation?" Episode 75 is out! In this episode, Jared sits down with Dr. Charles Davis, Chief Comprehensive Services and Data Officer of Evolve502. They discuss how non-profit organizations can use innovation principles to collaborate effectively with other sectors. This episode also dives into how personal motivation and availability of resources are essential to innovation and implementation.
How do you strike the balance between ideation and implementation of the ideas? How do you leverage innovative responses in a non-profit organization setting? Dr. Charles Davis' insights and years of experience working on-field will help you innovatively implement your ideas to solve problems in your organizations.
Lorraine Marchand is the Executive Managing Director of Merative (formerly IBM Watson Health). In this episode, they talk about how innovation thrives in environments that embraces uncertainty, being 'unsuccessful', and the ability to pivot.
More about our guest:
Lorraine Marchand has three decades of experience in new product development. She has held leadership positions at Bristol Myers Squibb, Covance, Cognizant, and IQVIA, and she cofounded four companies. Marchand is an adjunct professor of management and serves on the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Management Program Advisory Board at Columbia Business School and an adjunct professor of innovation and entrepreneurship at Yeshiva University’s Katz School of Science and Health. She is also an investor-member of venture firm Plum Alley.
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Episode Guide:
1:23 - What is Innovation?
2:41 - Unveiling adulthood curiosity
6:09 - The practice of noticing
8:25 - Jeff Bezos' Amazon and incentivized failure
11:22 - Problem Solving Methods and Innovation: First Principles
12:52 - Method 2: reframing
14:01 - Method 3: Analogy / Metapor technique
16:09 - Innovation: the cultural aspect
17:05 - What isn't innovation?
17:42 - Serendipity Innovation: Upjohn company's Rogaine
19:05 - Disruptive Innovation / Big hunt innovations
19:35 - Field of Dreams Innovation
22:45 - Unlearning ways of thinking
23:28 - Innovation: Shaping Careers
27:31 - Advice to Innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Amelia Schaffner MS, co-founder of the Emory University Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation where she built novel entrepreneurial culture, thinking, and initiatives, partnering with students, faculty, alumni, and the ecosystem. In this episode, they talk about empowering innovation through doubt, vulnerability, and disruption.
More about our guest:
Amelia Schaffner MS, is an Italian-born Innovation leader, culture-change driver, creative problem solver, and ecosystem connector. Currently, she is on a sabbatical, taking time to be creative and ask deeper life questions. Amelia sits on a few boards and advisories of organizations leading meaningful change, and is a frequent mentor - at accelerators like Techstars - to founders, especially the under-represented. Previously, Amelia was a senior Strategy principal at Accenture, a global consulting and IT firm, where she led a global Innovation initiative and was instrumental in visioning their Innovation architecture. She has been a contributor to the World Economic Forum, and is a frequent panelist on E&I conversations. In her personal life she enjoys deeper inquiry via philosophy, photography, poetry, language, and the wilderness: you can find her on Instagram at Z.Tasty.Life.
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Episode Guide:
2:02 - What is innovation?
5:05 - Finding innovators in corporate ladders
7:00 - ROI: an anti-innovation
8:40 - Innovators and a 'messy desk'
10:06 - Dogmatic biases
11:42 - What isn't innovation?
15:32 - Innovation: Learning, Culture, People, and Improvement
17:05 - Innovation: a colonization
18:30 - Value in Cyclical Conversations
20:43 - Longevitiy thinking for companies
22:40 - Innovation: Shaping Careers
24:49 - Jobs, job descriptions: a springboard
27:32 - Advice for innovators
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Resources Mentioned:
Books / Articles:
- Book: Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There Is No Death and Fathom Answers to life, the Universe, and Everything By: Bernardo Kastrup
- Book: The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connection, and Courage By: Brené Brown
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Ashish Kothari is an executive coach, author, consultant and founder of Happiness Squad, a company focused on helping individuals and organizations unleash the power of happiness and well-being to achieve their full potential. In this episode, they talk about the nine practices to unlock innovation. This episode also delves into the interconnectivity of productivity, creativity, and innovation.
More about our guest:
Ashish’s transformational approach, which he covers in his book “Hardwired for Happiness”, is interdisciplinary and integrates learnings across spiritual wisdom traditions, philosophy, positive psychology, neuroscience and organizational development. Prior to starting Happiness Squad, Ashish Kothari was a partner at the global management consulting company, McKinsey & Company and spend over two decades helping thousands of leaders succeed by building new mindsets and capabilities.
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Episode Guide:
1:32 - What is Innovation?
2:37 - Critical pieces of innovation
6:23 - Happiness Squad
8:02 - Hardwired for Fear
9:27 - Losing innovation to survival
11:06 - Hardwiring for Happiness
15:02 - Work and Mind-wandering
17:00 - Creative 'time'
18:57 - New book: Hardwired for Happiness
19:39 - 9 Practices: Self Awareness
21:19 - Practice: Purpose
23:09 - Practice: Community Building
24:00 - Practice: Wellbeing
27:42 - Upgrading our operating system: becoming agile
31:34 - Advice for innovators
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Resources Mentioned:
Books / Articles:
- Book: Hardwired for Happiness: 9 Proven Practices to Overcome Stress and Live Your Best Life
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Dr. Akhtar Badshah is Chief Catalyst at Catalytic Innovators Group, where he advises organizations and individuals to catalyze their strategy focused on social and philanthropic investments. In this episode, they discuss his purpose mindset view of innovation: self, community, and work. This episode also unpacks his five principles of a purpose mindset.
More about our guest:
Dr. Akhtar Badshah also conducts Purpose Mindset Leadership Workshops with organizations to help individuals articulate their strengths and values, and craft their purpose statement. A seasoned executive with over 30 years of experience in international development, managing a corporate philanthropic program and co-founding a global nonprofit for social enterprise, Dr. Badshah led Microsoft’s philanthropic efforts for ten years, where he administered the company's community investment and employee contributions. He was instrumental in launching both Unlimited Potential and Youth Spark, the company’s focus to bring digital technology to underserved communities and youth all over the world. Dr. Badshah serves on the boards of Microsoft Alumni Network, Global Washington, Restart Partners and The Indus Entrepreneurs, Seattle Chapter. A Distinguished Practitioner at the University of Washington at the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance, the Business School, at the Bothell campus, and a faculty advisor at the START Center in the Department of Global Health, he is the founder and curator of the University’s Accelerating Social Transformation program, a mid-career professional development certificate course on social impact. In May 2020, Dr. Badshah and his colleagues launched Restart Partners, funded by the Department of Commerce, WA State, and supported by Facebook to increase confidence in mask adoption and vaccines with the goal of helping to restart the economy. He is an accomplished artist, a doctoral graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and author of the 2020 release, Purpose Mindset: How Microsoft Inspires Employees and Alumni to Change the World (HarperCollins Leadership). Dr. Badshah and his family are very active philanthropists in the Seattle area.
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Episode Guide:
2:09 - What is Innovation?
4:07 - Trinity: Sales, Community, and Work
6:04 - Capitalist Societal Environment
6:54 - Unfolding from Capitalism: Questioning and Recognizing 'Meaning'
10:25 - The Purpose Gap: reducing tension and friction
12:25 - Deriving value and purpose in life journey
14:16 - Purpose alignment
16:05 - WhatCatalytic Innovators Groupworks on
17:00 client stories: corneal transplant
20:02 - Five principles of purpose mindset: work from your strengths
20:58 - 2nd principle: Lens of Abundance
22:33: 3rd: focus on the effectiveness vs efficiency
24:03 - Working with formerly incarcerated people
26:09 - Scalability and feasibility of working with formerly incarcerated people
28:46 - Advice for innovators / movement starters
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Doug Shapiro, vice president of research and insights at OFS. This episode talks about problem-solving, improving life with creativity, and the idea of 'openness'.
More about our guest:
As vice president of research and insights at OFS, Doug brings more than 15 years of experience collaborating with product and interior designers from around the globe. After graduating from Millikin University with a bachelor’s in business, he began his career at OFS in international sourcing before transitioning to director of product development. Since that time, he has held a number of roles, including brand manager, director of A+D sales, VP of marketing and regional vice president for the central U.S. A well-respected and expressive thought leader in the design industry, Doug is also the host of the highly-rated Imagine a Place podcast that inspires connection and collaboration, while exploring the role place plays in people’s lives. He has hosted guests from Fortune 500 companies and aspiring entrepreneurs alike, facilitating authentic conversations about everything from the latest workplace trends to neuroscience and architecture. Doug served on the International Interior Design Association’s (IIDA) board from 2015-2020 and still plays a key role in programming for IIDA student members. He supports meaningful IIDA programming efforts, such as Design Your World, a program for high school students that provides educational design opportunities and addresses diversity in design at the source. He also serves on the advisory board for Kansas State University’s Interior Architecture and Industrial Design department. In 2021, Doug received a HiP Award for his leadership in the design industry. In addition to these accomplishments, Doug is a passionate storyteller and published children’s book author. He loves talking about his career and his four keys to personal growth (Humility, Creative Courage, Optimism, “Go Giver” Mentality), which he often shares with the younger professionals he mentors.
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Episode Guide:
1:55 - What is innovation?
2:21 - Problem searching and improving solutions
3:47 - iPad: Problem solving vs life improvement?
5:39 - Improving life through creativity
7:36 - Getting good at creative work as is with knowledge work
9:32 - The idea open of openness
11:14 - creating a creative physical workspace culture
13:15 Judgment: Killer of creativity and the Eisenhower Matrix
15:57 - Getting into the creative mindset
18:00 - What is not innovation
20:07 - Creativity: Shaping careers
23:32 - Advice for innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Monique Childress, Founder and Principal at Horizon Advisory Group in Atlanta, GA, which provides organizational strategy services for purpose-driven organizations committed to supporting and improving the lives of underrepresented communities. This episode talks about one of the critical tools to move from curiosity to impact--the strategic planning process and how ego and the scarcity-abundance mindset can affect innovation work in nonprofit organizations.
More about our guest:
Monique possesses ten years’ experience in organizational strategy planning and consulting for nonprofits, small businesses, and Fortune 500 corporations. Her company, Horizon Advisory Group states it's mission is to help these organization leaders to define the path to their next horizon through strategic planning, organizational development, and facilitated stakeholder collaboration. Prior to Horizon, she held leadership roles in Management Leadership for Tomorrow’s Advisory practice and Accenture’s Talent & Organization Strategy practice where she worked with client executive and senior leadership teams on large-scale human capital strategy and transformation efforts. A Chicago native, Monique holds a BSBA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MBA from the University of Michigan. She has also completed additional professional training in Human-Centered Design with the LUMA Institute; Design Sprints with AJ & Smart; an advanced facilitation training on “presencing Race, Gender, & Collective Healing”; and Diversity in the Workplace (certificate) through the University of South Florida. In her spare time, Monique teaches yoga, volunteers as Treasurer for the Atlanta Unbound Academy’s Board of Directors, and she is a mentor with Emory University’s Start: ME business training program.
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Episode Guide:
2:04 - What is Innovation?
2:20 - Breaking down 'curiosity'
4:56 - Bringing curiosity to life: NGOs
7:04 - Getting started: hearing and listening
9:12 - Turning feedbacks into insights
11:10 - Importance of front end listening
14:05 - Passion-led leadership
15:05 - NGOs: A for-profit view and operations
17:06 - Breaking down 'ego'
19:32 - Ego in NGOs
20:14 - Non-profits: Strategic planning
25:46 - Charting diversity in strategic planning
29:40 - Executive and big picture visionaries
30:38 - Making space for innovation
32:10 - Scarcity vs Abundance Mindset
34:04 - what external consulting can provide
36:00 - Strategic Planning Process timeline
40:36 - Advice for Innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Urvashi Bhatnagar, DPT, MBA, vice president of Business Development, Healthcare at Genpact, discusses how one can differentiate innovation from finding your 'north star'. This episode also unpacks the intersection of analytics and healthcare and how sustainability is reshaping the world.
More about our guest:
Urvashi Bhatnagar is a mission-driven population-health and sustainability expert. She has over a decade of healthcare leadership experience working with clients to advance health outcomes in underserved communities—addressing barriers to care, advancing health equity, and leveraging data-driven approaches to reduce the cost of life-altering high-quality care. She also holds an MBA from Yale University and a Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Boston University. She believes global wellness can be achieved through sustained and intentional investment in environmental justice and healthcare sustainability initiatives for all populations.
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Episode Guide:
1:20 - What is Innovation?
3:08 - Is it improvement or finding your north star?
5:06 - Leaders: meeting innovation
6:25 - Leapfrog innovations and embedded systems
8:45 - What isn't innovation?
11:07 - The next 'it' thing
12:56 - Healthcare: innovation from demand
15:00 - Innovation: Shaping Careers
18:53 - Advice to innovators
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Resources Mentioned:
Books / Articles:
- Book: The Sustainability Scorecard: How to Implement and Profit from Unexpected Solutions
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Roger L. Firestien, PhD, president of the Innovation Resources, Inc., and author of several popular book on business, innovation, and creativity, discusses the symbiotic relationship between creativity and innovation in solving real problems. This episode also unpacks the reality and practicality of asking creative questions.
More about our guest:
Roger L. Firestien, PhD has trained more people to lead the creative process than anyone else in the world. He is Senior Faculty and Associate Professor at the Center for Applied Imagination at SUNY Buffalo State, as well as a guest lecturer at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine. As president of Innovation Resources, Inc., he consults, creates training programs, runs Breakthrough Labs, and has created a series of courses for Open Sesame. He is author of several popular books including Create In A Flash: A Leader's Recipe For Breakthrough Innovation and WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT?: Better Ideas & Decision Making At Home And At Work. For more information, please visit www.RogerFirestien.com
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Episode Guide:
1:45 - What is Innovation?
2:14 - Creativity consultant vs Innovation consultant
4:02 - Book: Solve The Real Problem
5:57 - The Boeing 747 windshield problem
10:05 - Myth: Mandated Innovation System
12:15 - What isn't innovation?
13:47 - Asking the creative questions
15:44 - Innovation and Creativity
17:27 - How has innovation shaped your career?
19:04 - Advice to innovators
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Resources Mentioned:
Books / Articles:
- Book: Solve The Real Problem (pre-order here!)
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Carolina Duque Chopitea, Director of Technology and Product at Reciqlo, a Circular Economy company that builds solutions for glass recycling, and Co-founder of Brandformers, a digital marketing and consultancy company that helps brands with their digital transition, discusses why it's important to see innovation as a way of looking at the future, and they unpack the ingredients of innovation that go beyond technology.
More about our guest:
Carolina Duque Chopitea holds a master’s degree in Business Analytics from Hult International Business School (San Francisco) and has recently co-authored “Tomorrow's people and new technology” , a book that explores how the emerging technologies that power the Fourth Industrial Revolution are changing our lives. With her multidisciplinary background and experience working in technology Carolina helps brands and organizations to build technological and innovative solutions that contribute towards the sustainable development of our plant.
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Episode Guide:
1:20 - What is Innovation
1:59 - Blockchain
2:44 - Book: Tomorrow's people and new technology
6:22 - Big data: shaping it and getting shaped by it
9:08 - Practical Innovation and value
11:56 - Innovation from non-economic projects
12:36 - What isn't innovation?
14:59 - Not something from scratch or zero
17:37 - Innovation Skill: Learning and Promoting
21:32 - Innovation: Shaping Careers
23:45 - Advice to innovators
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Resources Mentioned:
Books / Articles:
- Book: Tomorrow's people and new technology
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Hussain Almossawi, author of The Innovator's Handbook: A Short Guide to Unleashing Your Creative Mindset and founder of Mossawi Studios talks on how innovation can spring from small ideas compounding into one great big implementation.
More about our guest:
Hussain Almossawi is also renowned designer and innovator who has worked across industries around the world creating and consulting for companies, including Nike, Apple, Google, Adidas, EA Sports, Intel, and Ford Motor Company. As a regular keynote speaker on innovation and design, Hussain has also taught at several universities such as The New School.
In 2019, he founded Mossawi Studios, a multi-disciplinary design studio specializing in creating memorable, iconic, and bold experiences. He loves blurring the lines between product design, visual effects, and storytelling.
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Episode Guide:
1:25 - What is Innovation?
2:13 - "Bettering an idea"
3:12 - Improvements and Collaborations in the footwear industry
5:49 - Innovation and Invention: a crossroad
8:52 - FingerWorks and SoundJam: Apple acquired companies
11:56 - What is not Innovation?
12:54 - Innovation and Invention: becoming erroneously synonymous
14:06 - Innovation shaping careers?
15:16 - Book: The Innovator's Handbook (out on sept 6)
16:50 - The First Principles Method
20:44 - Advice for Innovators
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Resources Mentioned:
Books / Articles:
- The Innovator's Handbook: A Short Guide to Unleashing Your Creative Mindset - Out on September 6, 2022!
- The First Principles Method
Companies Mentioned:
- SoundJam
- FingerWorks
- Mossawi Studios
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
David Cutler, founder and CEO of The Puzzler Company, facilitator of the leading immersive 'GAME of Innovation' talks about how gamifying innovation works, the many ways that innovation is not always what is seems to be, and why music and innovation naturally work together.
More about our guest:
David Cutler, facilitates the leading immersive "GAME of Innovation' where these powerful, team-based experiences have empowered business, arts, and education communities from around the globe to solve creative challenges while becoming better collaborators. He is also an award-winning, multi-genre musician and Yamaha Master Educator. Cutler is a Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina, where he teaches innovation and entrepreneurship, and a member of the Liberty Fellowship and Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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Episode Guide:
1:20 - What is Innovation?
3:08 - Extraordinary problem solving: process and gamification
5:40 - What is G.A.M.E?
8:01 - Article: six things kindergarten teachers know that most CEOs do not
9:43 - Being problem agnostic
1239 - 6 types of non-innovation
1339 - Not imitation
1423 - Not magic
1509 - Not anarchy
16:48 - "Not everything"
17:33 - Not a big a idea
20:35 - Bonus: not an industry - not therapy, and not easy
21:39 - Innovation: Shaping careers
22:15 - Book: The GAME of innovation
2429 - Classical music, Jazz, and Innovation: an intersection
3137 - Innovation and Diversity
3208 - Murder of George Floyd: becoming more inclusive
3412 - Advice to Innovators
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Resources Mentioned:
Books / Articles:
- 6 Things Kindergarten Teachers Know That Most CEOs Do Not
- The GAME of Innovation: Conquer Challenges. Level Up Your Team. Play to Win
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Todd Skidmore is Sr. Director of Digital Marketing, eCommerce and Analytics at Mohawk Industries, the largest flooring manufacturer in the world.
More about our guest:
Todd leads a team of talented digital marketers, eCommerce managers and analytics professionals to drive growth and create best-in-class experiences across all of Mohawk’s digital platforms including B2C, B2B and B2B2C. Prior to Mohawk, he held multiple roles over a 16 year career at The Coca-Cola Company from eCommerce, marketing strategy and digital marketing through team and program management. When he’s not driving digital transformation, Todd is spending time with family and friends, travelling, cooking and enjoying the outdoors.
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Episode Guide:
1:21 - What is Innovation?
2:14 - "Finding good ideas"
5:05 - Evaluating and Executing the ideas
6:27 - Middle section of Innovation: due diligence
9:38 - Criticality of Collaboration and bringing in skillsets
11:25 - Bridging the risk adverse and risk taking ends
12:45- Enterprise organizations: longer term results
14:46 - Innovation in the Ecommerce and Analytics space
16:43 - "Why does this take so long"
18:47 - Transition from programs into ecommerce
20:32 - Advice for innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Ralf Specht is a visionary business leader, highly sought-after speaker, and creator of the Soul System™, a framework that aligns value-creating employee action with broader corporate strategy through shared understanding & shared purpose.
More about our guest:
Ralf Specht is a founding partner of Spark44, he was the architect of an innovative, industry-first joint-venture with Jaguar Land Rover, which grew under his leadership to a global revenue of $100+m and 1,200 employees before it joined forces with Accenture Interactive in 2021. Previously, he consulted with global companies and brands for more than two decades with McCann Erickson. He is the author of 2021’s Building Corporate Soul: Powering Culture & Success with the Soul System™ from Fast Company Press, as well as his newest book, Beyond the Startup: Sparking Operational Innovations for Global Growth. His driving vision is to make soulless companies a thing of the past.
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Episode Guide:
1:40 - What is Innovation?
3:29 - What isn't Innovation?
5:24 - Advertising: Changing the game and creating something new
7:53 - The Procter and Gamble Experience
9:30 - Innovation: Shaping and Molding Careers
11:11 - Disrupting the normal
17:29 - Business Development Process and Staffing
20:04 - Becoming the CEO
22:26 - Creating Job Titles
25:07 - "Building Corporate Soul"
29:07 - Having a shared purpose
31:37 - Benefits of spending time on Culture
32:38 - Advice to Innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Chris Skinner is a bestselling author, independent commentator, and globally sought-after expert on financial markets and technology through his critically acclaimed website, The Finanser.
More about our guest:
Chris has been voted one of the most influential people in financial technology by the Wall Street Journal’s Financial News, and has been an advisor to the White House, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, and the United Nations. He is a visiting lecturer with Cambridge University as well as a TEDx speaker and is Chair of Nordic Future Innovation and a non-executive director of 11:FS.
Chris is also the author of sixteen best-selling books, including Digital Bank, ValueWeb and Digital Human as well as a children’s book series, Captain Cake and the Candy Crew. His newest book, Digital For Good: Stand for something…or you will fall has recently been released last June 1, 2022.
He is also a regular commentator on BBC News, Sky News, CNBC and Bloomberg, Chris serves on various financial and fintech advisory boards, including B-Hive, Bankex, empowr, IoV42, Innovate Finance, Life.SREDA, Moven, Meniga, Pintail, Project Exscudo and Token Fund.
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Episode Guide:
1:34 - What is Innovation?
3:12 - Innovation before primetime
5:20 - Financial Services, 3G-to-5G evolution, cloud computing, 3d printing
7:33 - Facial Recognition: Mastercard and Alipay
8 :36 - Defining 'Innovation Reapplication'
9:58 - Wallet applications
14:19 - Cash Machines: Why online banks still open physical branches
17:28 - Upcoming Trends: Technology in Financial Industry
21:01 - Blog post: "The best job in banking: Chief Cannibal"
23:24 - What isn't innovation?
26:12 - Changes in the music industry
28:15 - FinTech: innovations behind the scenes
29:35 - Brazil's Nubank
31:01 - China's Alipay and WeChat Pay
33:20 - "Bankenstien"
3402 - Advice for innovators
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Resources Mentioned:
Companies/Institutions:
- Alipay
- WeChat Pay
- Brazil's Nubank
Blogs:
- The Finanser
- The best job in banking: Chief Cannibal by Chris Skinner
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Geneva Pritchard, Move92's Executive Director, curates relationships between grant makers (donors) and grassroots organizations around the world in a way that is rooted in the core philosophies of trust-based philanthropy.
More about our guest:
Relationship-building is at the center of everything Geneva does. Her devotion to connecting real people to real solutions has been the heartbeat of her work for her entire career. Having worked for large NGOs and grassroots organizations for nearly 20 years, Geneva knows the subtle landscapes of both. Her broad experience includes being involved in water and sanitation programs with CARE International in Nicaragua, drug-resistant malaria solutions among migrant communities, vocational incentive projects for people living with HIV, innovative education systems for mobile populations on the Thailand/Myanmar border, and diabetic retinopathy among marginalized populations with The Fred Hollows Foundation in Nepal and the Pacific Islands.
Geneva holds a degree in International Studies from Seattle University, and a Master’s in Public Health from Thammasat University in Bangkok. When she isn't on zoom calls with extraordinary grassroots leaders around the world, you will find her training for a wild adventure race on the trails of Christchurch, New Zealand (or adventuring with her husband and 4 and 6 year old daughters).
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Episode Guide:
1:36 - What is Innovation?
2:04 - What makes it courageous?
3:35 - Provoking the thought
4:50 - Difference on the ground vs main offices
8:15 - The Australian project
8:50 - Move92 and changing philanthropy
9:57 - Move92: bridging the philanthropist and local organizations
13:50 - Curating the process
16:15 - Core-values of Move92
18:12 - Being Agile and Move92's brief history
21:59 - Empowering the local leaders in Nepal
23:13 - The "Western lens"
25:08 - Female empowerment and leadership
27:23 - What isn't innovation?
30:56 - Advice to innovators
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Resources Mentioned:
Companies/Institutions:
- Move92
- The Fred Hollows Foundation
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Nathan Stuck, is the creator of B Local Georgia, a Georgia based nonprofit that focuses on helping companies get B-Corp certified, and use their business as a force for good.
More about our guest:
Nathan is an award winning leader in the B Corp community. In addition to his role as the Director of Corporate Culture & Strategic Impact at Ad Victoriam Solution, a certified B Corp, he founded and runs B Local Georgia, a nonprofit dedicated to growing the number of purpose-driven businesses in the Peach State. Nathan also teaches an experiential MBA course on B Corps at the University of Georgia and is the founder of Profitable Purpose Consulting, which helps for-profit businesses certify as B Corps. He has appeared on multiple podcasts and spoken at events across Georgia and the Southeast.
His unique background provides both an authentic and genuine story that resonates with audiences and inspires them, and their businesses, to be a force for good.
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Episode Guide:
1:42 - What is Innovation?
2:58 - In the B-Corp space
3:40 - Company Case Study: Advic (Ad Victoriam Solution)
4:50 - What is a B-Corp?
5:41 - B Corp Assessment
10:06 - Placing workers first
12:18 - Recertification and scores
14:38 - Impact assessment and business impact
16:27 - B Local Georgia
19:55 - Starting B Local Georgia: Capitalism and ROI
22:13 - B Corps in the South
25:32 - Working for B Corps
28.02 - The capitalist system and B-Corps
31:20 - Creating a playbook
32:40 - Reverse engineering your career
34:30 - Advice for innovators
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Resources Mentioned:
BCorp:
- B Corp (B Corporation) - certified by BLab
- B Corp Certification
- B Local Georgia
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Whitney Parnell is a Black millennial activist, singer, and the Founder and CEO of Service Never Sleeps, a nonprofit that empowers individuals and communities to catalyze social justice through service and Allyship. She is also a musician and has released a social justice album called "What Will You Do," with the goal of using empathy through song to ignite action.
More about our guest:
Whitney's movement work involves racial justice efforts, and equipping effective allies through truth-telling, bridgebuilding, empathy, and action. She grew up between Latin America and West Africa as a Foreign Service child. At Washington University in St. Louis, Whitney doubled majored in English and Spanish, and minored in Communications and Journalism, during which she also embraced her calling as an activist. Whitney’s passion for service and social justice brought her to Washington, DC after college to serve with City Year, and then work in homeless services, before founding Service Never Sleeps in 2015.
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Episode Guide:
2:05 - What is Innovation?
3:52 - Societal Innovation: defining "White Supremacy"
8:06 - Dismantling and Destroying: A contrast
8:54 - Getting Innovation 'Wrong'
12:14 - Taking the first step to big decisions
16:33 - The field of social justice and nonprofit
19:52 - Service Never Sleeps: Centering race equity
23:14 - Keeping it in-check
24:02 - Facing the uncomfortable
26:45 - Activism, kindness, polarizations
31:36 - Processing thoughts: What is next?
34:44 - Operating at the intersections
36:25 - The either-or binary
38:40 - Advice for Innovators
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Resources Mentioned:
Companies:
- Service Never Sleeps
Music Album:
- What Will You Do
References:
- Quote: “In this country, American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.” — Toni Morrison
- Article: (divorcing) WHITE SUPREMACY CULTURE by Tema Okun
- White Supremacy Culture – Still Here (updated May 2021)
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Keagan Russo, is Fleetcor's President for North America Local, a company that provides fuel cards and workforce payment products and services.
More about our guest:
Keagan leads the North America Local Fleet Card line of business, which has ~50,000 businesses under the Fuelman and Comdata Mastercard brands. He joined FLEETCOR in 2019. Before his current role, Keagan lead go-to-market strategy and product for the Local business. Prior to FLEETCOR, he was a strategy and marketing leader at various fintech startups, a management consultant at McKinsey & Company, and started his career at MBNA Corp. He received his JD from Boston College Law School and his BA from Colby College.
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Episode Guide:
1:38 - What is Innovation?
2:15 - Understanding: Shallowly and Deeply
4:37 - "Innovation equals speed to market"
5:29 - Creativity in innovation: a solution standpoint
6:15 - Fleetcor's Case Study
7:05 - CarAdvise Partnership
9:40 - Personal problem solving toolkit
13:19 - Implementation: the engineering aspect
14:23 - Chief Innovation Officer
15:55 - Pilot Launch: Electric Vehicle Fleet Payment Solution
17:00 - Internal Innovation and Entrepreneurial Innovation
18:07 - MBNA's FLC
23:02 - What isn't Innovation?
25:34 - Advice to Innovators
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Resources Mentioned:
Companies:
- FleetCor
- MBNA ('acquired and integrated into Bank of America Corporation')
- CarAdvise
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Andy Binns, is the co-founder of Change Logic, a Boston-based strategic advisory firm.
More about our guest:
Andy works with CEOs, boards, and senior teams as they lead significant business change. His goal is to help organizations liberate their potential to excite the world with innovation. He has 25 years of consulting experience as both an external and internal consultant for McKinsey & Co., the IBM Corporation, and Change Logic. At IBM, Andy was deeply involved in the Emerging Business Opportunity program, for which he received an award from IBM’s vice chairman.
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Episode Guide:
1:25 - What Is Innovation
4:34 - Atlanta Opera Company: Approach to innovation
5:48 - Japanese Firm: Approach to innovation
7:19 - Adoption and Adoption Chains: Pfizer and inhalable insulin
11:24 - Book: Corporate Explorer
13:03 - Risk and Resilience
14:33 - Silent Killers of Exploration
14:55 - Silent Killer: Risk Aversion
16:48 - Why "what isn't innovation?"
17:23 - Stanford, Harvard, Corporations, and Research
18:16 - The 3 Classic Errors
21:44 - $10 billion companies: Pampers
22:09 - Google and Microsoft
23:08 - LexisNexis
24:03 - Uniqa (European Insurance Company) and Shared Risk
25:45 - Corporate Explorers' Compensation Models and Reputation Risks
30:15 - Silent Killer: Professional Identity
32:22 - Advice for Innovators
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Resources Mentioned:
Companies mentioned:
- Microsoft 365
- LexisNexis
- GE Digital
- Uniqa
- Havas
- Victors and Spoils
- Deloitte
- Atlanta Opera Company
Books Mentioned:
- Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at the Innovation Game by: Andrew Binns
- buy it HERE
Authors Mentioned:
- Ron Adner (Tuck Business School)
- related works: The Wide Lens: What Successful Innovators See That Others Miss
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Kapil Kane is the Director of Innovation at Intel China where he co-founded & runs GrowthX- an award-winning corporate-startup accelerator. He is also the creator of the first multi-touch screen at Apple, where went on to lead product design on iPod, MacBook, MacBook Air, iMac & eventually the iPad.
More about our guest:
Kapil has deep expertise in areas of technology, innovation & entrepreneurship through advising startups & engaging with leading accelerators, universities & NGOs around the world as well as speaking at large global conferences. Born & brought up in the tiny seaside province of Goa, Kapil completed his Bachelor Degree in India & went on to receive a Masters in Engineering from Stanford University in California, eventually finding his way back to Asia in Shanghai where he has been living with his family for the past 13 years. Over the past 20 years, he has helped design & launch world-class products & businesses at the intersection of arts, design & technology.
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Episode Guide:
1:42 - What Is Innovation?
3:44 - Focusing outside of execution
5:18 - Invention to Innovation timeline
6:04 - Post-it invention
7:35 - Growth X
11:39 - PC farm and VR Cinemas
15:11 - Portfolio approach
18:51 - Works in the accelerator
20:16 - What isn't innovation
25:41 - Advice for innovators
28:01 - Best innovations
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Resources Mentioned:
Companies:
- Growth X: Venture Capital and Revenue Acceleration
- Intel China
- Apple
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
James Quinn is the Executive Managing Director at JLL, a Fortune 500 Company, that is considered the leading Technology Real Estate Advisor globally at the forefront of Technology and Real Estate having intimately worked with many of the largest corporations in the world.
More about our guest:
James, who's based in New York, leads a group of Technology and Real Estate professionals that provide advisory services to Fortune 500 Companies and leading technology firms. James has completed in excess of 35 million sq. ft. of global real estate projects. He has been very passionate throughout his career on the impact of technology in the business and real world.
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Episode Guide:
1:17 - What Is Innovation?
3:08 - What is Digital transformation?
4:50 - Chief Transformation Officer's role
6:49 - JLL and COVID response
8:41 - Bench Seating
10:25 - 1st camp: Financial institutions
11:26 - 2nd camp: Technology companies
13:23 - Having remote work choices
14:52 - Making choices to excel: American Express
16:20 - Importance of Technology, now
18:42 - Creating the book: Tech Trends 24/7 And the Impact of Covid-19
21:17 - Curiosity at work
22:37 - Promoting the curiosity mindset
23:52 - What isn't innovation?
24:29 - NFTs
25:00 - What's not Technology
25:29 - Advice for innovators
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Resources Mentioned:
Book:
- Tech trends 24/7 and the impact of COVID-19 - James Quinn
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Matthew 'Matt' Wool is the CEO of Acceleration Partners, an Integrated partnership agency.
More about our guest:
After joining the company as its fourth employee in 2012, Matthew 'Matt' Wool served as General Manager and then President of the company before becoming CEO in 2021. During his tenure, Matt has been a driver of Acceleration Partners’ success including the company’s numerous placements on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing private companies, multiple Most Effective Agency nods from the Performance Marketing Awards, and numerous Best Place to Work awards from Forbes and Glassdoor. Matt is a member of the Fast Company Executive Board and is a frequent speaker at performance marketing industry events.
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Episode Guide:
1:16 - What Is Innovation?
3:37 - Conversations with Venture Capitalists
3:53 - Connections in Practice: Acceleration Partners
6:01 - Finding the common ground
8:25 - Acceleration Partners' Entrepreneurial Operating System: Traction
10:11 - The Integrator Role
11:00 - Digital Economy and Critical Economic Partnerships
12:51 - Making valuable partnerships: marco-influence
15:23 - ROI in different industries: does one benefit more than the other?
18:28 - (Book) Range; bringing about diversity
19:23 - What isn't innovation?
23:00 - Advice to Innovators
25:45 - Advice: Thinking about outcomes
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Resources Mentioned:
Book:
- Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business - Gino Wickman
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World - David Epstein
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Tim Branham, aka Timothy Branham Mr. Branham has served as Chief Strategy and Growth Officer for a healthcare services firm, Chief Technology Officer for a publicly traded automotive digital marketing company, and global CIO for a global information telecommunication services company. Through these experiences, he's had responsibility for hundreds of staff millions of dollars in P&L and was a key contributor to the company's bottom line.
More about our guest:
Tim helped start the Branham Advisors to fill a critical gap in the marketplace for executive advisory services. He is also a veteran of the United States Army, having served as an Airborne Ranger and the third battalion at Fort Benning, Georgia. He's an instructor and senior member of the World Martial Arts Federation, as well as an avid golfer, rock climber, and self defense expert.
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Episode Guide:
1:25 - What Is Innovation?
2:45 - First element: Profits
4:37 - Harvesting the profit: non-systemic
6:40 - Innovation: A label or a skill
7:17 - Second element: Measurable
8:34 - Digital Innovation: Process and Structure vs Mindset
10:39 - "Keeping Up with the Joneses"
13:44 - Chief Transformation Officer: selection and effect to innovation
14:59 - Current rapid changes: a smarter approach
16:53 - What IS NOT innovation
19:39 - Bolt on approach
23:13 - Tech Debt: a sunk cost?
26:42 - Advice to innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Marge Simmons, aka Virginia Margrete Lawson Simmons, is a retired Garrison Manpower Chief in the Resource Management Office of the US Army. She has led the Fort Rucker 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) program and is an active member of the Johns Chapel AME Church in Enterprise since 1975, serving in various ministry leadership capacities including Christian Education Director and Choir President. She is also the lovely mother and the greatest inspiration of our host, Jared.
More about our guest:
Marge, the 7th of 13 children, considers her childhood home as the innovation headquarters with as many as 8 of the 10 living at home at the same time. She has worked her way to the top in the US Army despite all the setbacks as a woman-of-color during her time. She uses her experience and expertise as a former civil service worker and now an active member of her church and in music clubs to help guide her children and the people around her to use their God-given gifts and talents to make the world a better place
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Episode Guide:
1:42 - What Is Innovation?
2:33 - Defining "Need"
3:55 - How much is enough?
6:43 - Working in the Army: keep the staff, staffed
8:08 - Thinking through and making critical decisions
10:48 - Importance of motivation and recognition
11:13 - Familial ties, innovation, and prejudice: making up the foundation
14:58 - Growing up with limited resources
18:56 - Switching and finding innovation
20:45 - Credit taking: Towards innovation and improvement
21:53 - Born and Raised in the South
22:37 - Staying true with the approach
25:00 - Overcoming the segregation of colors and triumphing over prejudices
30:15 - How work experience shapes your views
32:18 - Music and it's role in life
35:30 - Managers, Leaders, Directors: having balance
36:30 - Innovation in music: ad-libs
39:30 - Innovation cannot be scripted
40:25 - Overcoming fears and stage frights
42:56 - Being open to receiving ideas
46:30 - Advice to Innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Mary Ann Jentz, founder of MAJ Consulting, a company aiming to help organizations define and execute strategic goals with a culture-first approach shares how morality and intentionality work (and don't work) in the areas of innovation.
More about our guest:
Mary Ann has over 15 years of experience, 10 years as a consultant, and prior to founding MAJ Consulting, she worked at Deloitte as a strategy and operations consultant and in supply chain at General Electric. She has an MBA from Goizueta Business School at Emory University and two bachelors' degrees in Chemical Engineering and Psychology from the University of Notre Dame. She lives in West Chester, Ohio with her husband, Mike, and shih tzu mix, Lulu.
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Episode Guide:
1:21 - What is Innovation?
3:57 - What is so special about being intentional
6:57 - Day-to-day ratio: Intentionality and bias toward action
8:24 - Experience and communication down the pipeline
10:13 - Classical strategic planning process: 100-Zero
12:05 - Connectivity and alignment of thought
14:16 - Essence of the business MAJ Consulting
16:45 - Striking the balance mentally
19:33 - Ways to think and rethink intentionality
21:08 - What isn't innovation?
22:17 - Morality: discussion on gene splicing
23:53 - Assumption of morality in social media
26:30 - Detangling from societal structure
28:27 - Web 3 and blockchain vs Web 2 platforms
30:25 - Uber vs Taxis
32:08 - Advice for innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Todd Khozein is the founder of the Founder and Co-CEO of SecondMuse, an impact and innovation company building resilient economies by supporting entrepreneurs and the ecosystems around them.
More about our guest:
The company is a manifestation of Todd’s impassioned belief that economic and social systems can be built inclusively and not at the expense of human dignity and the health of the planet. To test his theories and gain a deeper understanding of how to build and execute better systems, Todd earned a medical degree from the University of New Mexico, spent years developing a range of businesses, and co-founded SecondMuse in 2008. He’s proud to serve on the Board of Directors of TechSoup Global and The Circulate Initiative.
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Episode Guide:
1:33 - What Is Innovation?
2:23 - What does 'big' mean?
3:41 - 'BIG' in Tech: Scale
5:07 - Social Media: adverse effects on body image perspective
6:10 - Thinking in Spheres
8:04 - Arriving at the broader view of innovation
9:48 - The medical field perspective: homeostasis
13:09 - Segregation: of knowledge and markets
14:33 - Coalescence: travel, upbringing, cultures, experiences
15:41 - Relationships, Connections, and Synthesizing
17:51 - Human aspect of Innovation
18:16 - Vicious cycles and Virtuous cycles
20:21 - What isn't innovation?
22:38 - Finding the right people who'll operate and support you
23:32 - Driving towards harmony
24:44 - Past vs Present: Conversations of necessity
26:12 - Decentralization of the world of Tech: moving out of California
27:12 - Pandemic supply chain crisis
28:05 - Homogeneity of thought and risk aversion
29:52 - Diversity: don't put your egg in one basket
32:07 - Advice to innovators
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Resources Mentioned:
People referenced:
- Johann Christian Gottlob Baumgarten
Stop Asian Hate:
- Stop AAPI Hate: report hate crimes here
- Get the latest news and updates all over the country here (Instagram)
- Chinese for Affirmative Action Donation link
- Asians for Mental Health Directory
- Anti-Racist Guide
- The AAPI Emergency Response Network (ERN): Worldwide vigil on 3/26 at 7:30 PM EST
Black History Month:
- History of Black History Month
- Why Is Black History Month Celebrated in February?
- 2022 Theme: Black Health and Wellness
- books and guides here
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Galen Bingham is the founder of Kiln Global Coaching & Consulting. Known as the leadership strategist, he is a leadership trainer, retreat facilitator and certified executive coach with 30 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies.
More about our guest:
Galen Bingham is the founder of Kiln Global Coaching & Consulting. Known as the leadership strategist, he is a leadership trainer, retreat facilitator and certified executive coach with 30 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies. He is consistently sought out to advise or serve on premiere non-profit boards where, Galen provides oversight in governance, board development, CEO selection and organizational leadership. He has coached or consulted with over 875 senior executives, CEOs and non-profit leaders across 7 countries. He is a best selling author ofIMPACT: A Leadership Fable: Your Power To Make A Lasting Difference. Galen also hosts the Whiskey, Jazz and Leadership podcast.
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Episode Guide:
2:22 - What Is Innovation
2:45 - Creative Imagination: 2 Types
4:17 - Risk Reward: creative vs synthetic imagination
5:25 - Pressures of Wall Street
5:39 - West vs East: Running a business
6:27 - What drives the difference between the West and East in long-term planning
7:33 - Catalogue of Life and scenario catalogs
9:11 - Developed Courage
10:57 - Cultivating 'freedom' at work and managing implications of 'the fall'
14:01 - Unlocking the drive of confidence with decades of experiences
15:19 - Old paradigm lost: collecting lessons from life
17:45 - Ubiquitous world: impact to wonder and innovation
18:39 - Data, Information, Knowledge, and Henry Ford
21:19 - What isn't Innovation?
22:18 - Implications of value in innovation; is 'interesting' innovation?
24:32 - Focus: the 'Now' vs the future
25:57 - Value in having an objective point of view
26:45 - Coaching: helping navigate what you already know and how
27:48 - Finding the 'language'
29:59 - Defining value
32:30 - Advice for innovators
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Resources Mentioned:
Books:
- IMPACT: A Leadership Fable: Your Power To Make A Lasting Difference
Galen's podcast:
- Whiskey, Jazz and Leadership
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Quinn Osha is the founder of Topmarq, an innovative online platform that allows car owners to get the best price for their used car. Quinn shares how his company applies the aggregator concept common in other industries to transform the private seller experience in the automotive industry. He also discusses the differences among the four types of innovation he sees in the business world.
More about our guest:
Quinn Osha is the founder of Topmarq, an innovative online platform that allows car owners to get the best price for their used car. A car fanatic since he was young, Quinn saw room for disruption in the trillion dollar automotive industry that would allow people to get better deals when selling cars. Despite starting with no co-founder and minimal funding, Quinn took Topmarq to revenue within 6 months and the company now covers dealerships with a combined volume of over 1 million vehicles per month.
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Episode Guide:
1:43 - What is Innovation
3:44 - Innovation: influencing business-building
5:21 - The automotive industry and Topmarq's search engine-esque feature
7:20 - Differentiating Topmarq from competitors
11:54 - Role as the aggregator
13:25 - Staying away from heavy research projects
15:04 - What isn't innovation
17:14 - Working on patents and eureka moments
18:09 - Engineering background standpoint
22:12 - Engineering and Sales: different perspectives
24:30 - TopMarq today
26:56 - What's next for TopMarq?
28:30 - Advice for innovators
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Resources Mentioned:
Book Mentioned:
- Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
Services compared:
- Kayak - Online Travel Search Engine
- Google Flights
Previous episode mentioned:
- Episode 7: Innovation is more than invention
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Geoff Orazem is the co-founder of Eastern Foundry, an incubator for growing defense oriented technology companies, and Federal Foundry a software and media company for defense contractors. Geoff talks on the $500 billion government contracting market, the federal innovation programs, and how innovation can help provide better touch points for government customer-service.
More about our guest:
Geoff Orazem is a cofounder of Eastern Foundry, an incubator for growing defense oriented technology companies, and Federal Foundry a software and media company for defense contractors. He is a decorated Marine Infantry Officer and holds a law degree from Harvard Law school.
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Episode Guide:
1:12 - What Is Innovation
2:31 - Recognized patterns and shaping career
3:19 - Problem-solving like online dating platforms
5:47 - Analogy: Government contract problem and 'dating' problem
8:12 - The 500$ billion- a year- government contracting market
11:22 - Perception: 'Malicious' interest on keeping people out
13:31 - Keeping it classified or unclassified
15:10 - Innovation INSIDE the government to address systematic issues
17:36 - Case Study: the Jedi contract
18:56 - Gov't: most innovative and most risk-tolerant in technological space
20:02 - Small businesses, Deep-tech projects, Venture capitalists
21:22 - Synergy of government and innovators
24:38 - Long-term plans and bad customer service
25:14 - Average Americans and their Government touch points
26:09 - Number of registered government contractors
29:45 - Disneyfication of news
31:13 - Twitter feeds, representatives, senators, and contract winnings
32:47 - How someone could take advantage of the work
34:13 - Advice to future innovators wanting to get into the federal market
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Resources Mentioned:
Book Mentioned:
- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Contract:
- Jedi Contract
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
William A. Lumpkin is Head of New Products Strategy & Business Development for Alexion, Astra Zeneca Rare Disease Business Unit. Will shares how innovation works within the pharmaceutical industry and how marketing and science differs especially in commercialization.
More about our guest:
William A. Lumpkin is Head of New Products Strategy & Business Development for Alexion, Astra Zeneca Rare Disease Business Unit. His business acumen, enterprise leadership, and passion for cross-functional collaboration helps bring new medicines to people living with rare diseases across the world. Prior to Alexion, he held a diverse set of U.S. and global commercial leadership roles at Takeda, Baxter, Baxalta, Shire, and Procter & Gamble spanning functional disciplines, product lifecycles and therapeutic areas. William is a proud father of three (Ailey, Sage, and Liam), loving husband (Layla), and resilient Indiana University sports fan. He also maintains interests in urban community development initiatives and was on faculty at the University of North Carolina Kenan Flagler School of Business online MBA program. He earned his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and B.S. Finance from Indiana University.
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Episode Guide:
2:03 - What is Innovation
3:14 - How people impact innovation
6:00 - Seeing the bigger picture in life
8:05 - Bigger picture: affecting day-to-day life and effecting innovation and collaboration
8:41 - Earning trust: Top 1 priority
10:07 - Stereotyped view of Pharmaceuticals
10:52 - Large companies vs smaller companies: Providing real value to people
12:21 - What isn't Innovation
15:29 - Intersection and divergence of Marketing and Scientists
17:14 - Implications of the commercialization cycle
19:43 - Experiences that shaped Professional development views
22:22 - People: structures, connections, and excitement
22:56 - People of Color: finding energy and importance of passion
23:49 - Being "me" all day long in the Corporate America
26:14 - Advice for future innovators (and the public)
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Dr. Ann Kowal Smith is Founder and Executive Director of Reflection Point, which facilitates story-based conversations in workplaces to foster inclusion and collaboration. Dr. Smith shares how creating environments outside of the framework of seniority creates ripples of empathy that drive lifelong learning.
More about our guest:
Dr. Ann Kowal Smith serves as Founder & Executive Director of Reflection Point. Reflection Point facilitates story-based conversations that deepen the quality of relationships and foster inclusion and collaboration at every level of the workplace. Ann has also served as Principal with Heidrick & Struggles International and Strategy Expert with McKinsey & Company. Prior to joining McKinsey, Ann practiced corporate and securities law in private and corporate settings. Ann earned her AB from Bryn Mawr College, her MA from the University of Michigan, and both her JD and DBA from Case Western Reserve University. Her dissertation examined organizational learning and innovation.
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Episode Guide:
1:25 - What Is Innovation?
3:23 - Enabled by a Web of Social Networks
4:17 - The HUMAN social network
5:08 - Corporate ladders and disconnect
8:31 - Generalists vs Specialists
9:51 - Are we over-specializing?
10:56 - Establishing a common language: Specialists and Generalists
11:41 - What is Reflection Point?
16:22 - Technically inclined employees in Reflection Point environment
19:19 - Changing a leaders' comfort level of communication
23:51 - Empathy for people and not things
25:20 - Empathy: A driver
26:32 - Garnering insights through the years
28:03 - Reflection Point: The Origin
28:49 - Lifelong learning
32:22 - Hard and Soft Skills: Visible and Invisible
35:08 - Collective Sport: Immersive and Ongoing
37:17 - Effective Service: Iterative process
38:17 - Advice for Innovators
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Resources Mentioned:
Book Mentioned:
- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Luiz Zorzella, founder and principal of Amquant. Luiz shares on the contrast of Venture Capital and S&P. He also shares more about taking on the leadership role and different perspectives on the financial industry.
More about our guest:
Luiz Zorzella, through his company, Amquant, works with banks, insurance companies, investment and other service firms worldwide in the areas of growth, profitability and innovation. In his podcast, The Strategy Taken, he interviews business leaders on how they make and implement difficult strategy decisions. He is also the author of the book Revenue Growth and publishes a monthly newsletter where he examines the growth drivers of the financial sector. Luiz is a former consultant and expert with McKinsey & Co. and investment banker with JP Morgan Chase.
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Episode Guide:
1:26 - What is Innovation?
2:28 - Venure Capital sector underperforimg the S&P
4:45 - Class movements: Outperformers, averages, underperfomers
5:51 - What is efficiency?
7:46 - S&P from 500 to 310
9:04 - Competitive advantages/capabilities
10:02 - 'Not' creating value: 2 situations
12:26 - Leadership development space
14:01 - Coaching leadership perspective: Signal and Noise
15:41 - Financial Services: decisions on innovation through data
17:19 - Changing perspectives and fine-tuning
19:25 - Investing in people: solving classic value-metric problems
22:54 - What isn't Innovation?
24:51 - Company identifiers: Good or bad at innovation?
26:28 - Advice for innovator
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Resources Mentioned:
Luiz's personal ventures:
- Book: Revenue Growth Generation
- Company: Amquant
- Podcast: The Strategy Taken
Book Mentioned:
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Dr. John Ennis, co-founder of Aigora, a world-renowned authority on the application of artificial intelligence to sensory and consumer science. John shares how fast caterpillars and a beautiful butterflies are manifestations of innovation.
More about our guest:
Dr. John Ennis, co-founder of Aigora, is a world-renowned authority on the use of artificial intelligence within sensory and consumer science. John is a Ph.D. mathematician who conducted his postdoctoral studies in computational neuroscience and who has more than a dozen years of experience as a sensory and consumer science consultant. Author of 40+ peer-reviewed articles and 2 books, John is chair of both the ASTM E18 "Sensory Evaluation" division and the Sensometric Society; invited speaker and workshop organizer at international conferences; host of the popular industry podcast "AigoraCast;" a member of the editorial boards of both Food Quality and Preference and Journal of Sensory Studies; and past winner of the Food Quality and Preference "Researcher of the Future" award
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Episode Guide:
1:34 - What Is Innovation
2:52 - What is Process?
4:34 - Is the new way actually better?
5:48 - Fast caterpillar vs Beautiful butterflies
7:36 - Leveraging survey (The second act of a three-part play)
8:57 - Big companies innovating
9:56 - Lessons of a second act and safety nets
10:31 - Lessons from Waymo: Google's self driving car
12:19 - Creating an emotional investment to push bigger barriers in big companies
14:22 - Industrial revolutions: centralized and decentralized
17:10 - Working in parallels
20:50 - What isn't innovation?
22:07 - Surveys and scales
23:58 - Examples from all over the world
25:04 - Advice for innovators
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Resources Mentioned:
Frameworks:
- Say's Law : Economics
Topics and Brands Mentioned:
- Clarity: Programming Language for Bitcoin
- overview: Stacks - Clarity
- Central bank digital currency vs decentralized cryptocurrency
- McKinsey article here
- Waymo: Google's self-driving car
- Kodak
- Elon Musk: SpaceX and Tesla
Analogy:
- 'When digital transformation is done right, it’s like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, but when done wrong, all you have is a really fast caterpillar.' - George Westerman quoted by Tom Bangemann of The Hackett Group
Previous episode mentioned:
- Episode 19 : Innovation is defined by the customer :: David A. Fields
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Dr. Nupur Mehta, internal medicine physician, co-founder of Heyday Health, shares how his company and the healthcare industry can do better in providing services for the 3Ps: Providers, Payers, and Patients.
More about our guest:
Dr. Nupur Mehta is an internal medicine physician dedicated to improving the quality of life and wellbeing of all patients but especially older adults. He has spent his career innovating within the healthcare industry to align incentives between patients, providers, and healthcare payors. Most recently, he co-founded Heyday Health, a virtual first primary care start-up practice dedicated to meeting the needs of older adults. The unique challenges identified during the COVID-19 pandemic have generated significant opportunities to improve patient outcomes and experience while reducing costs, and organizations like Heyday Health are innovating rapidly to shift the delivery model to refocus on the needs of patients. When he's not trying to fix healthcare, you can find him on the tennis court, in front of the stove/grill, or chasing after his two daughters.
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Episode Guide:
1:44 - What Is Innovation
2:43 - Consumer back view of innovation
3:02 - 3Ps: Providers, Payers, and Patients
5:21 - USA: Health care = Sick care
7:40 - 'External' light on the process: Innovation and Collaboration
10:38 - Opacity from providers and high healthcare costs
12:03 - Provider internal change: motivators beyond altruism
13:18 - 'Global' budget for proactive vs reactive response to healthcare
16:39 - Offsetting incentive to invest in 'sick care'
20:57 - Altruism in the current medical field
22:59 - 2 year difference in healthcare: COVID changes
24:25 - Reliance on face-to-face patient care
27:35 - New model on 'being able to do what's right for patients more often'
29:07 - 25 mins of conversation vs 5 mins of examination
30:07 - Physical exam in practice
31:54 - Local service coverage
33:19 - Advice to Innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Ion Valaskakis, President at President, Portfolio IV Media and Consulting shares how creativity drives the difference of innovation, invention, and reinvention. He also discusses how to FuturePROOF using his proprietary framework and scorecard,
More about our guest:
Ion Valis is a strategic advisor to entrepreneurs and executives by helping them anticipate the future, accelerate their performance, and reinvent themselves when necessary. He enables organizations to "see around the corner" through two proprietary frameworks that he has developed - the FuturePROOF Scorecard and Playbook. His book 'The Magnificent Mistake' talks on how to learn from your mistakes, he has also given a TEDx Talk on the changing nature of leadership in the 21st century, and hosted a bi-weekly podcast on how to apply the management consultant’s toolkit to everyday problems. Ion plans to launch an online course called "Reinvention Boot Camp" that will empower thousands of people with the tools, skillset, and mindset to reinvent themselves regularly.
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Episode Guide:
2:09 - What Is Innovation?
3:33 - How does creativity
6:24 - Creativity: Innovation and Innovative
7:08 - What isn't Innovation
8:04 - Cybernetics: Intersection of domains
8:44 - Is it Innovation and Improvement?: Airbnb and Uber
11:20 - Distinction of Innovation and Invention
13:44 - Passion projects and Reinvention as a space
16:07 - How do you see reinvention? Looking forward deeper into 21st century
17:02 - Netflix: examplar of reinvention
23:13 - Reinvention values into an organization
28:25 - Holy Trinity: Innovation, Reinvention, and Future-proofing
32:00 - Advice to future innovators: ideas are worse than worthless
33:39 - "Real Innovators"
33:51 - 2nd advice: Embrace your craziness
34:33 - Last advice: think about what you can subtract
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Resources Mentioned:
Frameworks:
- The FuturePROOF Scorecard and Playbook
Books:
- The Magnificent Mistake - by: Ion Valis
Persons mentioned:
- Marcus du Sautoy
- Wayne Gretzky
Brands used as examples:
- Uber
- AirBnb
- Netflix
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Elizabeth Head, Director of Operations at LEAD Institute + Orchard, responsible for incorporating LEAD's capacity-building curriculum into Orchard, talks on progression and having the mindset for innovation in the non-profit industry, and how innovation works in politics.
More about our guest:
On April 1, 2021, the LEAD Institute became a part of Orchard, and Liz Head joined the Orchard team as Director of Operations. Her role is to incorporate LEAD's capacity-building curriculum into Orchard and launch a refreshed virtual training opportunity in Fall 2021. In addition, as Operations Director, Liz will lead financial operations, human resources, and strategic initiative implementation. Liz joined the LEAD Institute as the Deputy Director in January 2019 and assumed the role of Executive Director in July 2020. An experienced strategist with a 15-year career in investment banking and operations management, Liz’s role was to position the LEAD Institute for future growth through strategic planning. Before joining LEAD’s staff, Liz coached three nonprofit leaders through LEAD’s Ten-Month Program.
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Episode Guide:
1:37 - What Is Innovation?
5:00 - Instilling innovation of forward-movement
6:43 - Progression and Mindset for Innovation
8:48 - Profit vs Non-Profit: Similarities and common ground of populations
11:59 - Georgians United
14:53 - Independent Voting and the State of Georgia
18:18 - What is NOT Innovation?
21:37 - Power in functional partnerships
23:41 - LEAD and Orchard Merge
25:09 - Resources for Orchard, Institute for Political Innovation, Georgia Alliance
27:27 - Advice for innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Tyrone Lingley, Head of Partnerships at Ally.io, is responsible for building and delivering long-term go-to-market technology, strategic, and channel partnerships, talks on tackling OKRs, and shared responsibility and accountability.
More about our guest:
Tyrone Lingley, senior SaaS partnership leader with 10+ years of experience building and leading high-performance partnership and marketing teams in the technology, e-commerce, and sports/entertainment industries. Responsible for creating business value through channel, technology, and strategic partnerships. Ty is also currently the Head of Partnerships at Ally.io, responsible for building and delivering our long-term go-to-market technology, strategic, and channel partnerships. Prior to joining Ally.io, I led high-performance partnership and marketing teams at Unbounce, SHOES.com, Bell Canada, the Rick Hansen Foundation, and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic & Paralympic Games (VANOC). A board member with the Cloud Software Association (CSA), where we strive to build the market for the distribution of cloud software. Our 2000+ members span the industry as SaaS vendors, platforms, API services, resellers, distributors, and investors. An advisor to various SaaS companies within the software-as-a-service space looking to build and grow their partnership programs.
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Episode Guide:
1:50 - What Is Innovation
3:54 - Experience in Ally.io
5:38 - OKR
6:38 - Importance of AMBITIOUS objectives
8:27 - Role of Humility
11:42 - Unpacking OKR
13:07 - Cascading results and shared goals
16:05 - OKRs: Creating Accountability
19:37 - Risk Assessment
20:34 - Risk equation: People-side or Leadership-side?
25:19 - OKR or KPI?
27:46 - Ty's life outside work
29:26 - Advice to innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Rob Finlay, CPM®, an investor, operator, solution provider, CEO, and Founder of Thirty Capital, talks on staying open across different domains and the parallelism of commercial real estate and software companies.
More about our guest:
Rob Finlay, CPM®, knows the extraordinary value of tech + innovation + data within the CRE space better than anyone else out there. He grew up in CRE. He’s been an investor, operator, and solution provider. Rob has a large portfolio of assets and multiple CRE related tech companies. Disrupting the status quo, he’s doing to the CRE industry what Bloomberg terminals did for stock trading. CEO and Founder of Thirty Capital Rob Finlay helps operators and investors in the commercial real estate industry generate market-beating returns using technology and innovative solutions. His investment firm, Thirty Capital, includes a portfolio of companies in six states and employs over 300 individuals. It includes building materials businesses, commercial development, asset management, and a technology incubator and accelerator that has built multiple 9-figure real estate tech products including his primary focus, Lobby CRE. To keep life even more exciting, a former professional race car driver, Finlay continues to race cars, pilot helicopters and jets, and enjoys spearfishing.
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Episode Guide:
1:20 - What Is Innovation?
3:06 - Staying open across different domains of expertise
6:11 - "Looking around the corner"
9:13 - Thirty Capital's Innovation
11:42 - Innovation: Changing an experience
14:42 - Advice and perspective as a: Customer, User, and Investor
17:21 - What isn't Innovation?
19:05 - Parallelism of Commercial Real Estate and Software Company
21:01 - Top-down fostering
23:16 - Spearfishing vs Harpooning
26:15 - Advice for innovators
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Resources Mentioned:
Books:
- Who Moved My Cheese? - Dr. Spencer Johnson
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Marcus Sheridan, digital sales and marketing pioneer, and author of They Ask, You Answer and The Visual Sale: How to Use Video to Explode Sales, Drive Marketing, and Grow Your Business in a Virtual World.
More about our guest:
Marcus Sheridan is an international keynote speaker with a unique ability to excite, engage, and motivate live audiences. He also works with hundreds of businesses, helping them to become the most trusted voice in their industry. Marcus has been featured in multiple industry publications, including the New York Times, which featured Marcus as a "web marketing guru," and Forbes, which named Marcus one of 20 "Speakers You Don't Want to Miss" in 2017.
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Episode Guide:
1:19 - What is Innovation
1:39 - What isn't Innovation
1:58 - Regurgitation
4:04 - Invention and Innovation
5:46 - Innovating as a swimming pool company
8:37 - Ignorance is not bliss in consumer marketing
10:22 - Subway: one of the most innovative companies worldwide
11:32 - The process as a fiberglass pool manufacturer
14:26 - CarMax: innovation
17:34 - 2-step process with businesses
19:46 - Principles from They Ask You Answer
21:51 - B2B vs B2C
23:11 - Trust, growth, innovation, and Kodak
30:03 - Advice for innovators
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Resources Mentioned:
Books:
- They Ask You Answer: A Revolutionary Approach to Inbound Sales, Content Marketing, and Today's Digital Consumer
- The Visual Sale: How to Use Video to Explode Sales, Drive Marketing, and Grow Your Business in a Virtual World
- Simon Sinek: Start With Why
Brands Mentioned: Subway, CarMax
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
John Rossman, Managing Partner at Rossman Partners and Author of The Amazon Way series, talks The Amazon Way Leadership, Executive Decisions, and Innovation.
More about our guest:
John Rossman is an expert at digital business models, operations, and organizing programs. He has led engagements on developing innovation processes, Internet of Things strategies, marketplace and API-driven platform business models. He is a sought-after speaker on creating a culture of operational excellence and innovation.
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Episode Guide:
1:26 - What Is Innovation?
3:04 - Innovation playbook and Amazon
6:37 - Book: The Amazon Way
9:17 - Teams and 'failure'
10:51 - Leadership, Executive Decisions, and Innovation
13:44 - Amazon Way: building leadership principles
16:05 - Making the Amazon way your way
18:04 - Amazon and the Culture of Writing
21:29 - Universality of The Amazon Way
24:35 - Intentional Innovation
25:05 - Third element of Innovation
30:00 - 'What sucks?' framework
33:09 - Advice for Innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Sam Bond, COO of joe, the leading mobile ordering and rewards solution powered by independent coffee, talks inspiration and experimentation in innovation.
More about our guest:
Sam Bond is COO at joe, the leading mobile ordering and rewards solution powered by independent coffee. Before joining joe, Sam started Lyft's Southeast office and held leadership roles at Coca-Cola, Bain and Company, and in the U.S. Marine Corps.
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Episode Guide:
2:08 - What is Innovation
2:37 - What does inspiration look like?
4:51 - Experimentation
8:11 - Juxtaposition of Inspiration and Experimentation
8:52 - What Innovation isn't
12:18 - Process: Innovation vs Product or Service
14:45 - Impact of pandemic recovery to innovation
15:59 - Creating opportunities for innovation
19:43 - Experience at joe
21:39 - joe's role in helping business owners' innovate
22:33 - Small business advantage over corporate giants
26:53 - Supporting Values
29:13 - Mirror not Match
30:11 - Advice to innovators
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Noah Schaul of Inchainge, maker of value chain management simulation games, talks circular economy, innovation, and impact.
More about our guest:
Noah Schaul, Business Development Manager at Inchainge, speaks five languages, has a background in sustainable business and works within the company’s corporate and partner management activities. Noah is also one of the company’s master trainers for the circular business game The Blue Connection, facilitating Train the Trainer events, professional programs, university courses and MBA’s. Besides that, Noah is developing experiential learning programs with various organizations around value chain management. As the contributor to the textbook Mastering the Circular Economy and passionate circular catalyst, he is inspiring professionals to go circular in The Netherlands and beyond.
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Episode Guide:
1:39 - Language exchange: What languages do YOU speak?
2:52 - What Is Innovation?
3:10 - Defining: improvement
4:55 - Defining: the 'status quo'
7:37 - What is Circular economy and its relation to linear economy
9:15 - Two sizes of Circularity: Technical and Regenerative organics
10:24 - What isn't Innovation
11:43 - Invention inside of Innovation
13:26 - Learning from natural concepts and systems
14:26 - Finding 'THE Balance'
17:10 - Globalization -- the global viewpoint on circular economy
19:02 - Matching resources
21:47 - Advice to innovators
24:34 - Innovation by Inchainge
26:25 - Inventing new curricula
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Samuel Sanders, author of Your Next Big Idea, explains the relationship between innovation, creativity, and work.
More about our guest:
Samuel Sanders is an award-winning entrepreneur who has seen innovation, creativity, problem-solving, and ideation in action at many different levels: a Fortune 500 company, an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing company, as well as incubators. He also co-founded the company Wundershirt, which at its peak, sold athletic training clothing to Olympic athletes preparing for the 2016 Olympics. Currently, he runs Heard, LLC, a software application that helps governments and large companies get targeted and reviewed feedback from their citizens/employees to improve decision-making. His award-winning and highly-praised new book, Your Next Big Idea, is available at www.yournextbigideabook.com and Amazon.
1:28 - What Is Innovation?
4:13 - Being a 'creative' thinker
5:38 - Creatives and Entrepreneurs vs Problems, Needs, and Wants
7:30 - Viewing as an Opportunity
8:32 - Book: Your Next Big Idea
9:56 - Coming into solutions
11:31 - Identifying what makes sense to solve problems
13:10 - Innovators: Application, Fulfillment, Creating, Solving problems
14:09 - What Isn't innovation?
15:22 - Innovation Traffic Light
18:18 - Controversial tip: bringing in a new perspective
21:26 - "How has innovation shaped your career, experience, and life?"
24:09 - Hobbies to keep busy outside of 'innovation'
25:09 - Thoughts on immersive experiences
26:53 - Advice to innovators
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Nadia Laabs, co-founder of SafetyNet Technologies, shares about work efficiency, sustainability, and growing one's business.
More about our guest:
Nadia works using a Human-Centered Design approach to help organizations become sustainably and socially successful by developing and implementing business plans that work and finding innovative alternatives with actionable solutions to the challenges they are trying to tackle.
Previously, she worked in consumer research and product development at P&G, started up her own businesses, and picked up business knowledge from INSEAD. She has a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas, an MBA from INSEAD, and a Certificate in Social Sector Leadership from the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business. Learn more about
Episode Guide
1:56 - What Is Innovation
3:25 - Seeds from days at P&G
4:30 - Innovation from the Traveler perspective
6:58 - Innovation stages in different places
7:13 - Innovation doesn't have to be like the new and sexy
7:52 - Kenya, Thailand
8:34 - Different views of innovation and implicit bias
8:59 - Street Smart
11:22 - SafetyNet Technologies
13:57 - Basic Premise of the technology
16:13 - Innovation is working together
17:21 - Falling in love with the innovative impact
19:20 - Travel: a hobby or an addiction?
21:46 - Mental health
23:04 - Advice to innovators
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Colin Hunter, an Author, Mentor, Coach, and the Founder and CEO of Potential Squared shares takes on innovation in the field of VR and creating 'playgrounds' for his various clients
More about our guest:
Colin Hunter is an Author, Mentor, Coach, and the Founder and CEO of Potential Squared, an international business that specializes in creating playgrounds to disrupt the way people are led. Three areas of focus include: Building Leadership Capabilities, Strengthening Functional Capability, and guiding Innovative Cultures. He generates a lasting professional impact with those he works with and is renowned for being what they and he calls refreshingly direct, lighting inspirational fires to drive change.
He facilitates, mentors, and coaches individuals and teams in the areas of leadership presence, personal brand, change leadership, innovation, strategic dialogue, creating board-level influence, and earning a seat at the executive table. With the use of actors, cutting-edge virtual realities, and a new leadership framework, clients have shown award-winning differences in the ways they lead. He prides himself by practicing what he preaches with being wrong more and learning fast from it.
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Episode Guide:
01:58 - What Is Innovation?
3:03 - What is the "real problem"?
4:02 - An Anecdote: Ms. Brown
7:18 - The HUMAN user
8:56 - HUMAN influence
9:39 - Claridge's in London with Melman and Gloria
12:07 - Playgrounds
13:53 - Big Wet Fish Analogy
16:34 - (Really) Effective Actors
17:28 - Getting an Advisory board
21:15 - Joy and Healing: Episode 14
23:06 - 'Playgrounds' response to COVID
25:26 - 3H: Hugs, human interaction, house rental analogy
27:12 - Virtual reality at work and at home
29:26 - Perspective: a religious background
31:25 - Ship out of the harbor
35:35 - 'What does cycling give you?'
39:17 - Advice to innovators
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Amanda Billiot, VP of Human Resources for Military Engines at Pratt & Whitney, shares what is innovation through her years as a positive disruptor in DEI.
More about our guest:
Amanda Billiot is the VP, Human Resources for Military Engines at Pratt & Whitney. After over 16 years in HR, she is a self-proclaimed positive disruptor when it comes to leading innovation and growth courageously. Two of her proudest professional accomplishments include helping to start the award-winning Empower Ability ERG and this incredible WILL Rise program at Pratt. She has also worked for GE, Cooper Industries, the National Labor Relations Board, and in sports radio. Amanda is also a proud fellow of the Aspen Institute’s First Mover Program and an active member of her local community and church.
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Episode guide
2:27 - What is Innovation
3:37 - Energy in industry level work processes
4:24 - Innovation and Patents
5:44 - Innovation Buzzword: Inclusion
8:26 - DEI program: Raytheon
10:30 - DEI for broader innovation
11:54 - Having a heart
14:34 - What isn't Innovation?
19:11 - Resiliency, Celebrations, and Learning
20:58 - Innovation, Health, Well-being, and COVID
22:22 - Performance reviews, Cookie-cutter employees,
25:46 - Interview, expectations, bias, and validation
29:06 - Advice to deal with the imposter syndrome
32:34 - Advice for innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Brett Simmons, Sr. Consultant at OUTLAST Consulting LLC talks on innovation across the entire value chain--with examples from various industries.
More about our guest:
Brett Simmons brings years of experience in warehousing, transportation, and operations in industries such as Mining, Railroad, and Consumer Packaged Goods. Brett uses his unique experience and education to deliver solutions that build on capabilities to offer lasting effects on an organization. Brett further reinforces process excellence and ensures cohesion between planning and structural requirements. You may contact Brett at: brett@outlastllc.com
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Episode Guide:
1:29 - What Is Innovation
2:27 - What Is a Value Chain
3:39 - Innovation vs Day-to-day work
4:20 - Article: The Discovery of Penicillin
7:46 - Incorporating new work as frontline supervisors
8:47 - Understanding failure
12:08 - Rejections at work
12:51 - Chopped: the cooking show and 'baskets'
14:30 - Ron Howard's Apollo 13
16:06 - Innovation is not a job title nor workshop
17:36 - Innovation and constraints
18:54 - Defining Innovation as brothers: from experience and looking back
21:06 - Necessity: Mother of Invention?
22:42 - Learning is about exposure
23:49 - Collaborative environment in learning
25:03 - Fortune 500 companies and Innovation
26:21 - What is not Innovation
30:11 - Advice for innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Grady Powell and Haley Robison Dake, collaborators on an innovative learning experience called Metatrack and leaders with distinguished careers as innovators shares their point of view on innovation as a way of viewing the world.
More about our guests:
Grady Powell is a future-oriented strategist, executive, and entrepreneur. The founder and CEO of Openfields, a research, strategy, and design firm committed to helping leaders imagine and implement a more creative and just future. He is also co-founder and trustee of Capita, a creative think tank for harnessing the power of big ideas to ensure a future in which all young children and their families flourish.
Haley Robison Dake advises early-stage companies and teaches at the University of Texas Austin. Previously the CEO at Kammok, an outdoor brand based in Austin, Texas, that designs performance gear to elevate time outside. Haley's most inspired at the intersection of design, business, and education.
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Episode Guide:
2:10 - What is Innovation
3:07 - Innovation as a skill
4:53 - Engaging in the creative process with Jim Gilmore
5:51 - 2 Types of Innovators
6:46 - Incremental innovation value
7:34 - Act of courage and stamina
8:12 - Relative value: Incremental vs Revolutionary innovations
10:10 - Work Collaboration
11:46 - MetaTrack
14:21 - Equipping People to be lifelong learners
15:41 - If MetaTrack existed years ago...
18:01 - Beauty of Hindsight at work
22:05 - Domain expertise
23:16 - Hiring 'T-shaped' people
25:46 - Experience, Hobbies, Views, and Innovation
29:40 - Haley's 90 days in Wyoming Wilderness
32:28 - Os Guinness: Contrast is the mother of clarity
35:04 - Advice for Innovators
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Raj De Datta, Co-Founder and CEO of Bloomreach, talks on seeker mindset and creating culture in tech-forward business industries.
More about our guest:
Raj De Datta is the Co-Founder and CEO of Bloomreach, the leading digital experience platform for e-commerce that powers brands representing 25% of retail e-commerce in the US and the UK. A multiple-time entrepreneur, before launching Bloomreach, he was entrepreneur-in-residence at Mohr-Davidow Ventures, served as Cisco’s director of product marketing, and was on the founding team of telecom company FirstMark Communications. He also worked in technology investment banking at Lazard Freres. Raj serves on the Council for Player Development for the US Tennis Association, as a Founder Partner at seed-stage venture capital firm Founder Collective and an individual investor in over 20 Silicon Valley start-ups. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering with a certificate in Public Policy and International affairs from Princeton University and an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.
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Episode Guide:
2:13 - What is Innovation
3:33 - Working in labs
5:07 - Technical problem definition vs Consumer back approach
5:33 - Bloomreach
6:42 - Creating Culture from the top-down
8:09 - Consumer Side culture role-modeling
10:24 - Seeker mindset, To-do lists, and Uber
12:27 - Technology: Solving the seeker's problems
13:59 - Tech-forward business industries
15:34 - Solving for reassurance vs solving for information
16:31 - What isn't innovation
17:42 - Creating Cross-functional innovation teams
20:08 - "Product Manager" job titles
22:24 - Incorporating hobbies: Tennis
26:35 - Shaping career through innovation
28:03 - Advice to innovators
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Heather Wray talks on Collaboration vs Energy tradeoff, coaching pre-and-post COVID through an innovation outcome and interaction standpoint.
More about our guest:
Heather Wray has over 20 years experience in the field of leadership development as an executive coach, talent management consultant, and sought-after group facilitator. She has worked extensively with high potential and senior leaders and is often sought out for her expertise in design thinking, leadership presence, mindfulness-based emotional intelligence, and navigating complex influence challenges. She is a Certified Integral Coach (New Ventures Wes) and a certified facilitator of the ExperienceChange and ExperienceInnovation simulations. Heather is also a Certified Teacher by the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute to teach the SIY program, developed at Google, a mindfulness-based program that builds the core emotional intelligence skills needed for peak performance and effective leadership.
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Episode Guide:
2:10 - What Is Innovation?
2:54 - Coaching is The Innovation of The Human Being: How It Comes Up
5:03 - Running Into Coaching Misconceptions
5:37 - Coming Together: Mindsets, Behaviours, Design Thinking
7:25 - What Does Truth Look Like?
8:14 - Delivering High-Quality Impact in COVID environments
9:15 - Tradeoff: Collaboration vs Energy
10:25 - Post-COVID: Continuing Virtual or In-person
13:18 - Innovation Standpoint: Outcomes and Interaction
16:34 - Weaving Through Innovation Terms
18:20 - Ashtanga Yoga: Structure, Flow, Creativity, Freedom
23:50 - Energy: An Art
25:56 - Key Skills Diagram of a Coach
26:53 - Fun in Coaching
28:00 - Advice for Innovators
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Rob Morgan shares his point of view on marketing strategy, innovation, technology commercialization, and marketing in emerging markets.
More about our guest:
Rob Morgan is a marketing professor at the University of Alabama and directs the STEM Path to the MBA and CREATE Path to the MBA programs. Rob attended pharmacy school at the University of Kansas, completed his MBA at the University of Dallas, and his PhD in business at Texas Tech University. Rob researches and teaches marketing strategy, innovation, technology commercialization, and marketing in emerging markets.
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Episode Guide:
1:39 - What is Innovation
2:43 - Creativity, Innovation, Solutions
4:06 - What isn't innovation
7:10 - Current Academic Programs
10:32 - 5-year program
12:52 - innovation is what drives the growth in our economy
13:38 - How the academic projects are decided
15:43 - State differences in accessibilities
17:54 - Insights from having both programs
20:21 - Career shaped by Innovation
22:36 - Advice to innovators
24:54 - Generational difference with future innovators
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Mark Jeffreys, Founder & CEO of 4Sight, talks on how connection and inner peace plays a role in innovation both in the private and public sector.
More about our guest:
Mark is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of 4Sight, and an award-winning, seasoned Senior Executive & start-up Founder with more than 25 years of success delivering profitable sales growth for some of the world’s most visible brands. His experience spans consumer packaged goods, food manufacturing, home furnishing, non-profit, government and start-up as well as across geographies – having lived & worked in Asia, Europe and North America. 4Sight was born out of Mobile Agent Now as clients from Procter & Gamble and Clorox to Nestle and Energizer saw value in mining their reviews (and those of competitors) for actionable insights. Mark has held positions with go Vibrant (a non-profit that he founded, and is still Chair of the Board), the Cincinnati Parks Foundation, the Carnegie Visual & Performing Arts Center, and the University of Chicago Alumni Committee.
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Episode Guide:
2:34 - What is Innovation
3:47 - Connection and inner peace
7:03 - 4Sight: Discovering truth
09:12 - Marketer by Training
12:34 - Dealing with "customer is always right"
14:14 - What Isn't Innovation
15:34 - Consumer Fatigue
16:32 - Setting up your benchmarks
18:29 - Working with Pampers
20:19 - NGO: Vibrant
25:24 - Working for the government sector
27:18 - Positively impacting people's lives
28:35 - Advice for future innovators
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Johnmark Oudersluys, Executive Director of CityLink Center (Cincinnati), talks on the importance of energy and activating energy to spark change in your community, re-aligning your values and professional life.
More about our guest:
CityLink Center’s Executive Director is Johnmark Oudersluys, a former corporate strategist with a passion for creating large scale solutions for critical social issues. At CityLink, Johnmark has led the formation of a scalable, integrated center that breaks down barriers for Greater Cincinnati’s unemployed and the working poor to progress out of poverty. Cincinnati has been home for 15+years during which engagement with community has led to deep friendships, the opportunity to meet an amazing wife and start a family, and a profound appreciation for our city.
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Episode Guide:
1:32 - What Is Innovation
2:56 - Importance of Energy and Energy Activation
8:22 - Moments of resistance
12:27 - Citylink
13:55 - Crafting a personal mission statement
14:28 - Rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina
16:08 - Leading Citylink Center
19:10 - Program rich - System poor
21:40 - What's next for Citylink Center
22:12 - Fundamental issues as a sector
25:17 - Innovation: Unnatural?
29:07 - Advice to future innovators
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Grace Nicolette, Vice President at the Center for Effective Philanthropy talks innovation in the world of charitable giving.
More about our guest:
Grace Chiang Nicolette, Vice President of Programming and External Relations, works closely with the President on the organization’s partnerships, outreach efforts, communications, and innovative programming, including oversight of CEP’s biennial conference for foundation executives. Prior to this role, Grace was a manager on CEP’s Assessment team, where she led the marketing, creation, and presentation of CEP’s benchmarking assessments for individual foundations. Grace is a frequent speaker at conferences and to the foundation and nonprofit boards and staff on topics of philanthropic effectiveness and also philanthropy in China.
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Episode Guide:
2:00 - What Is Innovation
2:13 - The aspect of discovery
2:48 - Which is tougher: discovery or bringing to the table?
4:39 - Bringing in the resources vs building a bridge to connect?
6:17 - Philanthropists and the business world: Outcomes and Approches
6:30 - The Center for Effective Philanthropy
8:16 - How does the Center function
12:22 - Measuring success and impact as an organization
15:04 - A mirror to other foundations
17:56 - Following the science of research
18:37 - Working with different foundations and industries
21:59 - Experiences with working for non-profits
27:20 - Advice to future innovators
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Dr. Robin Gaster, President of Incumetrics, Inc., a data and program evaluation consultancy, and author of Behemoth, Amazon Rising: Power and Seduction in the Age of Amazon share his take on innovation at Amazon and beyond.
More about our guest:
Robin Gaster, PhD is a visiting scholar at George Washington University Institute for Public Policy and the President of Incumetrics, Inc., a data and program evaluation consultancy that serves clients seeking to understand the intersection of technology, innovation, economics, and politics. From 2004-2014, Dr. Gaster was the lead researcher and principal writer on a 13-volume series of reports published by the National Academies of Science and Engineering on the U.S. government’s premier innovation program for small businesses, as well as for a major report on the Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
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Episode Guide:
1:58 - What Is Innovation
2:25- Invention vs Innovation
4:13 - Working with the government and Small Business Innovation Awards
4:57 - Problem of getting into the market
5:55 - Inventive people and being linear
9:38 - Great Man Theory and the multibillion founders of modern culture
11:12 - Is there regression in Amazon?
12:51 - Amazon, Innovation, Consumer-centric
14:20 - AWS, innovation and internet giant
17:30 - AWS and Amazon
16:5 - Amazon and digital privacy
21:36 - Secrecy of corporations
21:55 - Regulating Amazon? Understanding websites
23:13 - Antitrust and court-proceedings
25:12 - Protecting consumers from predatory retailers
26:08 - Sunlight and Dogmatic traditions
26:54 - Book: Amazon Rising
28:57 - Judo and Amazon business decisions
29:52 - Amazon Prime's 2-day free shipping
30:40 - Customer-centric: Caring or obsession?
31:45 - Flywheel approach
33:02 - Going into advertising
35:06 - Groceries, Healthcare, Alexa, and Opportunities
36:34 - Amazon's Ring and working with police departments
37:21 - Collateral Damage and pervasiveness
39:58 - One goal focus
41:17 - 150 years of change from the 'race to the bottom'
42:12 - A proposed reset with corporate overloads
42:40 - Information access and new sets of standards
43:05 - Advice to innovators
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
David A. Fields, consultant, speaker, and best-selling author, shares his customer-centric viewpoint which makes for unique insights into how your products and services can consistently deliver value.
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Consultant, speaker, and best-selling author David A. Fields helps in building consulting practices that are lucrative and lifestyle-friendly. He’s the author of Amazon’s highest-rated book on the business of consulting and has guided consultancies ranging from hundreds of millions of dollars down to one-person startups.
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Episode Guide:
1:03 - What Is Innovation
1:33 - Innovation as an improvement vs Innovation as breakthrough
4:56 - Different kinds of innovation
5:34 - Four Box Worldview and Consulting Business
8:20 - Innovation as a portfolio
10:20 - Innovation application on product-service industry
13:16 - Evolutionary vs Revolutionary
14:32 - Portfolio vs Product Distinction
15:16 - What isn't innovation
15:57 - Working with Kodak
17:10 - Looking out the window vs Listening inside the walls
17:51 - Patent Offices
20:46 - Developing frameworks and models
23:33 - Stepping back and recalibration
29:27 - Advice to future innovators
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
James Marable shares his experience as both an entrepreneur and corporate employee giving him unique insight on what innovation means.
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James Marable is a marketing strategist, entrepreneur, and community advocate based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Professionally, James has 15 years of experience in social media strategy and implementation, employer branding, media production, product development, design, project management, promotional strategy, and event planning.
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Episode Guide:
1:42 - What Is Innovation
3:38 - Innovation is a bit of a gap for companies
5:10 - Self-Authenticity
6:05 - Importance of Action Points
6:26 - Jumping in and taking a seat at the table
9:17 - Clothing Store: Original Thought Required
10:58 - Working with people
13:45 - Personal Development
18:51 - What Innovation Isn't
19:35 - The Social Media Approach
21:21 - Working in the corporate space
22:47 - Repositioning as the new corporate structure
25:16 - Can anyone be an entrepreneur?
28:34 - Companies in America and revenue
30:33 - Manager vs CEO
31:06 - Dame Dash
31:51 - Autonomy in achieving life goals
33:58 - Structure attributions
35:00 - Advice to future innovators
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Parker Meeks, Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at Hyzon Motors, shares his view of innovation as both an operator and advisor in the industry makes for unique insights.
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Parker Meeks is a proven senior operating executive with more than 15 years of experience driving transformational change via strategic growth, operating performance, acquisition strategy & integration, and culture formation in field services-oriented businesses across design & construction end markets, including infrastructure, industrials, electric power, energy transition and oil, gas & chemicals, with demonstrable success at the global and national organizational scale in a variety of ownership environments (PE-backed, public, privately held). He has most recently held full P&L responsibility for a nationwide 900 person design and construction management business in transportation and water resources within TRC, a leading provider of technology-led integrated design, construction management, and environmental services to the electric power, infrastructure, industrial and commercial markets.
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Episode Guide:
2:17 - What is Innovation
3:15 - What is "Progress"
6:20 - Design Construction
7:49 - Small group vs big group disruptors
8:52 - Early forms of Design and Construction Technology
13:59 - Bringing in value
15:26 - How the innovation can help despite frictions
19:07 - Innovation and difficult choices
20:58 - Deploying mindsets in a decentralized organization
23:54 - Conversations in Digital Technology
27:22 - Is innovations about eliminating constraints?
28:17 - Advice to future innovators
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Jeff Wiguna, Co-Founder of Kuju Coffee, describes how confidence and bravery boost innovation in music and business.
More about our guest:
Prior to brewing up Kuju, Jeff was sales & marketing director at Good Paper, a fair trade consumer goods company, where he led a turnaround from declining sales to national distribution at Whole Foods Market. Jeff is passionate about building brands that have a scaled and relevant impact on the world. His favorite Kuju? "I love all of them, literally. But if I had to pick - Single Origin Papua New Guinea on the daily and Bold Awakening for when I need a real pick me up." His favorite brew: Single Origin Papua New Guinea His favorite place to indulge in it: Anywhere with a view.
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Episode Guide:
1:50 - What Is Innovation
3:40 - Target in itself
5:20 - Overplaying in Music and Business
6:02 - Trying to impress
6:19 - Adding bravery and sense of humanity
6:44 - Destructive products
8:00 - Bill Evans' intentionality and building on
9:12 - Human temptation of trying to impress
9:32 - Making connections than impressions
9:40 - Impression by definition
9:54 - Jazz Improv
11:09 - Human nature: impressing and 'woodshedding'
11:53 - Leading with a hard part as a business
12:34 - "Are we connecting with what we wanted to do in the beginning?"
13:07 - Focusing on Brand Message
13:44 - Cap table and institutional fundings
14:09 - Staying true and building on as a VC
15:00 - Bravery: connotation of positive ends
20:12 - Innovation is a form of change
22:07 - Innovation like a jazz solo
29:23 - Art of listening
30:00 - Staying true to form
32:51 - What is not innovation
33:37 - Advice to Future Innovators
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Buzz Amato, an independent producer, writer, arranger, & keyboardist with over 40 years in the music industry, talks on innovation in the music industry—including how it’s made, sold, and consumed
More about our guest:
Buzz has appeared on more than 150 CDs as a performer or producer. In 2000, Buzz created Amatones Music which focuses on independent production and film scoring. He has composed music for CNN, Delta Airlines, The Discovery Channel, the Weather Channel as well as for film and TV. His orchestration skills provided him the opportunity to score 2 pieces for jazz pianist Bob Thompson and the West VA Symphony Orchestra.
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Episode Guide:
2:17 - What Is Innovation
3:31 - History of Music and Technology
4:13 - Church music restrictions
5:18 - Legend Pianists
5:44 - Sound signature evolution
8:30 - Les Paul and Wes Montgomery
11:02 - Music in Innovation: Never finished
13:47 - Radios and selling records
15:18 - Impact of compartmentalization on music evolution
19:15 - Resurgence of record players and albums
22:00 - Copyright law of 1976
24:00 - Fair Music Act and online streaming
26:05 - Record labels and Napster
28:04 - Protection: A Human tendency
29:04 - Lessons from Curtis Mayfield
32:55 - Advice for future innovators
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Dr. Maria Lucia Madariaga talks about her passion for discovery, research, and patient care.
More about our guest:
Maria Lucia Madariaga, a general thoracic and lung transplant surgeon. She is also the principal investigator of the Organ Perfusion Laboratory and a founding member of the Complex Airway Center at the University of Chicago.
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Episode Guide:
1:46 - What Is Innovation
2:25 - What Isn't Innovation
2:57 - Being one-to-one
4:55 - Big and small leaps
6:19 - Establishing trust with patients
8: 02 - Smoking dependency
10:26 - Physician Burnout
11:11 - Helping out Physicians
13:37 - Organ Perfusion Laboratory
17:37 - Connecting the dots and step-by-steps
24:24 - Advice to future innovators
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Jeb Bell, President of Equipment Controls Company, shares his unique definition of innovation and how looks to help his industry stay relevant in the current social impact environment for fossil fuels.
More about our guest:
Jeb Bell is the third generation President of Equipment Controls Company. Founded in 1965, we are an independent, specialty distributor of Measurement and Control products and solutions for natural gas. Our Markets include Natural Gas Distribution Companies. Gas Transmission pipelines and industrial/commercial. We have sales/distribution offices in Norcross, Ga, Houston, Tx. Indianapolis, In. and Salt Lake City, Ut.
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Episode Guide:
1:30 - What is Innovation?
2:08 - Meaning of value
4:47 - Becoming a sales organization
6:16 - Meter mountain elections
7:45 - Fossil Fuel industry now
9:25 - Innovations' social implications
10:14 - Driving internal change
12:52 - What isn't Innovation?
15:53 - History of Equipment Controls Company
25:27 - "Modern day traffic light"
27:23 - Advice for future innovators
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Alexander Mammen, founder of Heritage Growth Partners, shares his unique definition of innovation and how he applies it to creating true partnerships with entrepreneur-owners.
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Alex Mammen founded Heritage Growth Partners in 2014 with the goal of creating true partnerships with entrepreneur-owners, built on long-term thinking, shared values and mutual alignment of interests. He brings 25+ years of private equity, investment banking, commercial lending and family business experience to Heritage, and has completed over 70 M&A and financing transactions valued in excess of $7 billion. Throughout his career, Alex has served as a trusted advisor to a variety of private and public companies, including a number of founder and family-owned businesses. At Heritage, he focuses on identifying and investing in private companies, leading structuring and diligence, and advising and serving management teams in achieving their growth objectives.
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Episode Guide:
1:50 – What is Innovation
3:07 - Innovation in Heritage Growth Partners
6:00 – Vision and execution
7:23 - Cycle and Business evolution
8:34 - Industry-sector investment and innovation
9:10 – 5 areas to look into
9:18 - Food sector
9:42 - Distribution
10:13 - Repair and Maintenance
10:29 - Training and Education
11:09 - Retail and Consumer
11: 54 - Consumer-driven, Geographically driven, and sticky elements
19: 25 - Roomate Business
22:19 - Advice for innovators
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
David Metcalf talks about his unique view of innovation and its impact, on society at large -- that reflects his range of experiences in corporate strategy, law, financial services, and education.
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Episode Guide:
1:49 - What is Innovation
2:30 - What is THRIVING?
5:00 - Meaning and Innovation
7:45 - How-focused, Who-focused, and WHY-focused
13:35 - 80% of adult-waking hours
14:00 - Purpose and Dignity in work and in life
15:00 - Operating better to become the people we were meant to be
17:01 - Shifting values
19:00 - Re-engineering ability
22:56 - Advice to Innovators
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Peet van Biljon, the founder of BMNP Strategies LLC, shares his thoughts on innovation, as well as some historical context for the way we view innovation today.
More about our guest:
Peet van Biljon advises clients on innovation strategy, new product development (NPD), and R&D transformation. He serves clients in all sectors, but has particularly deep expertise in the high-tech, electronics, software, and advanced manufacturing industries. Peet is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University, where he teaches a graduate course on Innovation and Public Policy. He was formerly a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and managed McKinsey's global innovation practice. He has held executive positions in several companies internationally.
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Episode Guide:
1:30 - What Is Innovation
3:00 - Creative and Analytical process
3:59 - Innovation as a social enterprise
6:14 - Ambidextrous learning
7:54 - Humans, Uncertainty, Creativity, and Innovation
9:10 - Peter Drecker: Systematic innovation
11:02 - What Isn't Innovation
12:34 - Mid-20th century definition of Innovation
13:10 - Elements before Innovation
16:17 - Research and Development vs Innovation
17:55 - Entrepreneurs' creative disruption
19:53 - Management thinking on innovation over the years
23:22 - Theories for Innovation by entrepreneurs
23:58 - Samuel Palmisano's "If you don't innovate, you're in commodity hell"
25:00 - Karl Marx
25:32 - Peter Drecker: Innovation and corporations in a systemic way
31:38 - Public and private sectors on risk tolerances
35:54 - "Why do you want to innovate?"
38:25 - Collaborative effort and leadership, healthy organization environment
41:05 - A triathlon or decathlon?
OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.
Ahmed Hashmi, our first guest host takes on the opportunity to pull a reverse uno card and asks Jared on his own view of Innovation.
More about our guest:
Ahmed Hashmi, a senior at the University of Texas studying Management Information Systems.
Episode guide
1:56 - Innovation at risk of losing its meaning entirely
4:02 - What is Innovation
7:40 - Shifting from solving problem first into a problem first solution
11:08 - OUTLAST Consulting: Coaches of Color program
11:58 - One on one coaching environment: Best environment
15:42 - Creating an environment that leads to valued context with innovation and design
21:19 - Personality tests' holistic innovation
26:45 - World of design-thinking
29:41 - Need for professional development
30:05 - Availability in the corporate world
33:40 - Reframing organizational priorities and mentalities
35:20 - Coaches of Color mission
Tim Schumm, Founder and President of Lucas James Talent Partners, shares how innovation works in the talent acquisition industry.
More about our guest:
Tim Schumm
Founder and President of Lucas James Talent Partners
Episode guide
What Is Innovation
Recruiting Industry
Founding Lucas James
Government Staffing
Business within a Business with autonomy
Flexible cost-per-hire
Incentivizing and fees
Brokerage and marketplace model
Role of empathy
Outside the mainstream
Future of Recruiting-Process Outsourcing
Continuous Improvement Mindset
Advice for Innovators
Comfort Zones
Robyn Bolton, Founder and Chief Navigator at MileZero, explains how innovation differs from invention and how innovation works for intrapreneurs in large companies.
More about our guest:
Robyn Bolton,
Founder and CEO of MileZero
Episode guide
1:35 - What is Innovation
2:11 - "Something"
2:55 - "Different"
3:38 - "Creates Value"
4:42 - Types of Value Creation
5:57 - What isn't Innovation
6:56 - Invention vs Innovation
9:55 - Laboratory Creations
12:00 - Value in the Corporate-side
16:16 - Value of Learning and Value of Dollars
19:05 - Aspects of Honesty
22:03 - Corporate Intrapreneur vs Entrepreneur
22:41 - Accidental Entrepreneurship
25:16 - Success Rate of Corporate Intrapreneurs
27:10 - Heart, Head, Guts
30:02 - Advice to Innovators
Featuring:
Robyn Bolton, Founder and CEO of MileZero
Host:
Jared Simmons (@outlastllc), Founder and Principal at OUTLAST Consulting LLC
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Editing and Production: Buzz Amato
Marketing and Visuals: Naomie Oplado
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Mike Ross, Founder, and CEO at Juniper explains how creativity and fear impact innovation.
More about our guest:
Mike Ross, Founder and CEO of Juniper
Episode guide
1:50 - What Is Innovation
1:42 - Creativity with Impact
4:15 - What Is Not Innovation
4:27 - Ambiguous Impact and Mistakes
12:14 - Innovation as an Organization
13:50 - Experimentation
16:05 - Danger of Separate Innovation Hubs
16:55 - Innovation is a Trojan Horse
19:50 - Stability and Innovation
22:57 - Fear Impediments
27:15 - Advice to Innovators
Featuring:
Mike Ross, Founder and CEO of Juniper
Host:
Jared Simmons (@outlastllc), Founder and Principal at OUTLAST Consulting LLC
Thanks:
Theme: “This Must Be Heaven” by Buzz Amato
Editing and Production: Buzz Amato
Marketing and Visuals: Naomie Oplado
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Karl Preissner, Director for Equity and Inclusion at Procter & Gamble, shares insights on innovation in the nonprofit, for-profit, and equity and inclusion spaces.
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Karl Preissner, Director for Equity and Inclusion at Procter & Gamble
Episode guide
1:40 - What Is Innovation
3:00 - Innovation In Different Fields
4:28 - Ideas vs Innovation
4:44 - What Is Not Innovation
5:50 - Outcome-Focused Innovation
7:00 - Growth and Contribution
9:10 - Building Today For Tomorrow
13:47 - Paradoxical interconnectivity
16:55 - Innovation and Outcomes
21:32 - Innovation in The Quality-Inclusion Space
23:30 - Insider and Outsider Groups
25:50 - Virtual Reality as a Vehicle Of Empathy
29:08 - Advice for Innovators
29:57 - Teamwork, Trust, Team players
Featuring:
Karl Preissner, Director for Equity and Inclusion at Procter & Gamble
Host:
Jared Simmons (@outlastllc), Founder and Principal at OUTLAST Consulting LLC
Thanks:
Theme: “This Must Be Heaven” by Buzz Amato
Editing and Production: Buzz Amato
Marketing and Visuals: Naomie Oplado
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Annabel Mendez, founder of Aromalief Vegan Pain Relief Creams, shares how to shift from a problem-focused self into an outcome-focused self.
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Annabel Mendez, Founder of Aromalief Vegan Pain Relief Creams.
Episode guide
1:17 - What is Innovation?
2:33 - Expanding the definition of Innovation
4:51 - What Isn't Innovation
8:04 - Innovation From A Scientific Standpoint
8:45 - Problem-focused and outcome-focused (A 2005 or 2020 Annabel)
13:31 - Uncertain vs. Unknowable
15:19 - Becoming An Entrepreneur
16:42 - Launching Her Business
24:21 - The importance of support In An "Emotional" Business
25:12 - Dealing With Business Problems
27:36 - Advice To Innovators
29:37 - Staying True To Oneself And Your Business
Featuring:
Annabel Mendez, Founder of Aromalief Vegan Pain Relief Creams.
Host:
Jared Simmons (@outlastllc), Founder and Principal at OUTLAST Consulting LLC
Thanks:
Theme: “This Must Be Heaven” by Buzz Amato
Editing and Production: Buzz Amato
Marketing and Visuals: Naomie Oplado
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Johnny Howze III, VP of Supply Chain Management at Southern Company shares the importance of paradigms in Innovation.
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Johnny Howze III,
Vice President Supply Chain Management - Gas, Generation, and Services at Southern Company
Episode guide
1:41 - "What is Innovation?"
3:00 - Innovation is not using the same formula
4:25 - View from different lenses
5:10 - Lens on work
7:32 - No "one way" to learn
9:26 - Serving customers through Innovation
13:43 - Growing with and through responsibility
18:23 - Paradigms in life
22:40 - Can you innovate alone?
25:50 - Tips from Johnny
28:05 - Winning tomorrow by winning today
Featuring:
Johnny Howze III, Vice President Supply Chain Management - Gas, Generation, and Services at Southern Company
Host:
Jared Simmons (@outlastllc), Founder and Principal at OUTLAST Consulting LLC
Thanks:
Theme: “This Must Be Heaven” by Buzz Amato
Editing and Production: Buzz Amato
Marketing and Visuals: Naomie Oplado
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Wendy Nunnelley, SVP of Global Growth at Diageo, explains the difference between Internal and External Innovation and the role of 'Inbetweeners'
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Wendy Nunnelley
SVP of Global Growth at Diageo, and an active angel investor, advisor, and board member for consumer goods startups.
Episode guide
1:24 - What is Innovation?
1:52 - Internal and External Innovation
2:26 - Is it an idea or innovation?
3:19 - Innovation shows up on the Shelf
6:29 - Internal Innovation Processes
9:53 - Product Positioning
14:11 - Customer and Retailer's perspective
16:07 - "Inbetweeners"
18:26 - Who are you as an Innovator?
Featuring:
Wendy Nunnelley, SVP of Global Growth at Diageo, advisor to Springdale Ventures, and board member of Naturally Austin.
Host:
Jared Simmons (@outlastllc), Founder and Principal at OUTLAST Consulting LLC
Thanks:
Theme: “This Must Be Heaven” by Buzz Amato
Editing and Production: Buzz Amato
Marketing and Visuals: Naomie Oplado
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Hung Nguyen, professional development coach, and leader in BP talent management, offers her unique perspective on innovation, including the importance of curiosity and passion for what you do.
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Hung Nguyen, professional development coach and leader in BP talent management, offers her perspective on what innovation is...and isn’t. Her deep expertise and unique sense of humor are on full display as she discusses her perspective on the future of talent management, the role of curiosity in innovation, and the connection between innovation and frayed clothing.
Episode guide
2:30 - Innovation is about creativity and trying new things
4:11 - innovation in the corporate world
7:13 - What isn't innovation
12:03 - Right people, right team, right roles
13:35 - Innovation at BP
18:47 Different standpoints
23:04 - Advice for future Innovators
Featuring:
Hung Nguyen (@misshungnguyen), professional development coach and leader in BP Talent Management.
Host:
Jared Simmons (@outlastllc), Founder and Principal at OUTLAST Consulting LLC
More to explore:
Fun fact: Hung and her husband Chee were contestants on Season 32 of the Amazing Race! Follow their journey
The book with the story about tall basketball players: The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
Careers at BP
A song about unraveling sweaters
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Editing and Production: Buzz Amato
Marketing and Visuals: Naomie Oplado
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