How to Accelerate Post-COVID Innovation
In this episode, I go over the 5 C's of Work Redesign -- the five things you should focus on to increase your pace of acceleration as the pandemic dies down. Assess yourself on the 5 C's here: Assessment
The Best Morning Routines for Innovators
In this episode, I talk about my morning routine, and how innovation leaders can build a morning routine to help them be their best, most creative selves.
Build Your Influence As an Innovation Leader
In this episode, I talk about how innovation leaders can become better influencers within their organizations.
Build Your Game Plan For What’s Next in Tech
This week I'm talking about my top three tech trends and predictions for 2022 and how you can quickly translate them into real business impact for your team. Topics covered include: Shift From Digital Transformation To Human Transformation, and Adoption Of Low-Code As A Management Discipline, Automating Intelligent Processes In The Metaverse.
Don’t Let Collaboration Tools Derail Your Design Sprints
Collaboration tools are essential for remote design thinking sessions. But they can be just as much of an obstacle as they can help. The most important tool in your design thinking toolbox is you! Here are some tips for how to upgrade your facilitator operating system.
Boost Your Energy With The Right Innovation Playlist
Over the years I’ve experimented with different ways to manage and shift my own energy when I need to get my mind into a creative state. My favorite is to listen to a specially curated playlist designed to get me loose and into the right mindset for thinking creatively. Today I'm sharing some of the songs from my playlist FastForward Life with you.
Unlock These High Performance Habits To Level Up As An Innovation Leader
The habits of clarity, courage, and influence are essential for your success as an innovation leader. You can master facilitating design sprints and leading digital transformations without these habits, but you’ll see inconsistent results.
Use Them Or Lose Them: Putting The Employee Experience At The Center Of Your Innovation Program
Employees are seeking more meaning and purpose in their work. This is an opportunity for us as innovators to embed employee experience in our innovation initiatives, connecting meaning and purpose to the day-to-day work employees do.
Your New Superpower? Letting Go Of Control Over Design Sprints
One of the most powerful tools in the Innovation Leaders’ quiver is the design sprint. Design sprints are compressed agile development cycles in which stakeholders identify problems, then rapidly brainstorm and build out prototype solutions.
Develop Your Visualization Skills To Conquer Uncertain Times
With persisting talk of inflation and recession, many of our colleagues and clients are anticipating a slowdown period in which innovation takes a back seat to cost-cutting and downsizing.
High Performance x Innovation = Consistent Results
As part of our Performance Innovation Accelerator Coaching Program, our team has defined and cataloged the conditions that need to be in place to drive consistent innovation results and outcomes.
30 Days of Innovation Highlights
Summary of 30 Days of Innovation Challenge and Innovation Leadership Program.
Prioritize These 5 Capabilities To Drive Innovation Excellence
What are the five key distinctions I see that separate the best from the rest? The most effective innovators are partnering and co-innovating with stakeholders.
How to Combine Design Thinking and Systems Thinking
In this episode, I tell you about my move to California...in order to explain why the combination of design thinking and systems thinking is so powerful.
3 Innovation Leadership Lessons Learned from My Dad
I learned that he wasn't doing well, we found out that he had cancer. Knowing that he was sick really prompted me to start spending much more time with him and just asking him a lot of questions.
Break Through These Low Code Barriers To Speed Innovation
One of the top challenges business leaders face when trying to accelerate digital transformation is expanding low code adoption throughout their enterprise.
Learn These Mental Toughness Routines To Avoid Innovation Fatigue
As innovation leaders, we live in a space of “comfortable discomfort.” One of the most important skills we can acquire to avoid this innovation fatigue and personal burnout is mental toughness.