The Heart of Innovation

How To Live Future Ready with Frederik Pferdt

Today we talk with my old friend and colleague Dr Frederik Pferdt, who is on a mission to empower everyone to fulfill their visions for the future. From shaping Google's fabled creative culture as Chief Innovation Evangelist to nurturing the minds of students at Stanford University's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, Frederik has a track record of helping others realize their creative superpower to imagine and invent a better tomorrow. Join us now as we have a conversational celebration around his new book, What's Next Is Now: How to Live Future Ready [https://www.frederikgpferdt.com/] as we talk about shyness and audacity, knowing and not knowing, curiosity and risk.  Intro and Outro music kind courtesy of Taraval. [https://taraval.bandcamp.com/]

Curiosity, empathy and and cross cultural innovation with Cliff Scott

Cross cultural efforts can be a minefield. Cliff's areas of geographic focus are mainly post colonial countries in Asia. As a white dude American, Cliff knows the pitfalls. What's surprising the how these challenges can become an innovation superpower via the intention of care and the skills of empathy and cognitive perspective taking. Cliff is most passionate about helping teams and organizations through transformations, enabling them to succeed in new levels of complexity.  Supporting leaders in their ability to rise to the challenges of rapid change when prior ways of leading seem to fall short is some of the most joyful work he does.  He believes those who find deeper connection to their purpose and practice ways of deepening their self-awareness are able to see and let go of beliefs and assumptions limiting their effectiveness as leaders.  He finds joy in helping others look inward with courage to encounter what holds them back to release themselves from what hinders their greatness. His practice ranges from online and in-person leadership program design and delivery  as well as executive and team/cohort coaching. Clients worked with have been in major manufacturing, hi tech, bio tech, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, land development, financial services, US Navy, including start-ups, family run conglomerates, mid size and Fortune 500 companies in the US, Europe, Australia and SE Asia. He is trained in Presence-based and Growth Edge coaching methods, also is certified to use Leadership Circle framework of assessments and the MBTI. He is also a member of the global faculty for Leadership Circle Certifications. Intro and Outro music kind courtesy of Taraval. [https://taraval.bandcamp.com/]

How cappuccino, green energy, motorcycle design and innovation are inextricably linked, with Marco Ferrara

Marco Ferrara is co-founder and SVP of Software Analytics at Form Energy, a company pioneering iron-air batteries to solve grid storage for renewable energy. (He is also the CIO - Chief Italian Officer.) He has a dazzling technical resume: a PhD in Nuclear engineering from MIT and another in Computer Science for good measure. Yet, he credits beauty and creativity as they key drivers in his entrepreneurial journey. Join us as we unpack how this came to be and how we can all learn the "wisdom of our hands" even as we tackle problems that seem to require the wisdom of our brains.  Intro and Outro music kind courtesy of Taraval. [https://taraval.bandcamp.com/]

How to reinvent yourself to reinvent the world

Today we get to talk to Meg Salter about how humans develop and how that can allow you to innovate at the core - who you are - and how that can enable creative and innovative action and how we can even use life's deepest pain to spur growth. Meg Salter is an internationally experienced Executive Coach and Management Consultant.  and works with corporate, public sector and non-profit clients. As an Integral Master Coach™, Meg supports leaders to develop the mental, emotional and interpersonal capacities needed to handle the greater complexity required at pivot points as their careers or organizations change. These involve the abilities to frame context, direction and outcomes needed and work with diverse point of view A skilled teacher of mindfulness, she incorporates mindfulness and self-awareness techniques into coaching programs and leadership development.  Intro and Outro music kind courtesy of Taraval. [https://taraval.bandcamp.com/]

Creative Abrasion, DEI and Soap Bubbles with Dr. Roxy Manning

Any innovation process needs to accommodate and even encourage diverse points of view and even divergent truths. This almost necessarily produces conflict. Are there practical, trainable ways of navigating this reality at both the individual and group levels to give us the peace of heart and mind to enter in this dance of complexity and ambiguity and create systems of wholecome innovation? YES! Dr. Roxy Manning, is a clinical psychologist and certified Center for Nonviolent Communication trainer. She brings decades of service experience to her work interrupting explicitly and implicitly oppressive attitudes and cultural norms. Dr. Manning has consulted, and provided training across the US and in over 10 countries individuals and groups committed to social change - creating what she calls the beloved community. www.roxannemanning.com [https://www.roxannemanning.com/] for more info and book purchasing! Intro and Outro music kind courtesy of Taraval. [https://taraval.bandcamp.com/]