Play Bold - Win the business game through creative destruction and innovation

Welcome to the next episode of Play Bold, this time with my college and friend Gerry Purcell. Gerry has an exceptional background as a trusted advisor from BCG and Kearney, now serving as Principal at Innovation 360, leading the Canadian operation. With his broad and deep knowledge of innovation, transformation, and growth, regional and globally, Gerry developed insights and best practices he frequently shares in keynotes and books. He is also running the Finnovate Show with leading fintech experts guesting and discussing fintech. Welcome, Gerry!

In the new episode of Play Bold, we have Melissa Rancourt, a Parsons New School of design professor, leading their Global Executive Masters Degree in Strategic Design & Management in Paris, NYC, and Shanghai. With her Entrepreneurial hat, one of her companies, very near and dear to her heart, is Greenlight for Girls, an organization she founded to address the issue of the declining or stagnant percentage of women in several STEM. STEM stands for science, engineering, technology & mathematics. In just a few years, it has reached more than 50,000 students, families & communities with its hands-on fun-filled science events focused on inspiring the future generation. With a team of more than 8,500 volunteers worldwide, the organization has conducted more than 300 events on 6 continents. For the work with Green Light she has been appointed as a top 100 Women in Social Enterprises. Wow, what an achievement. Meet Melissa, a design professor at the world´s leading design university, an entrepreneur, speaker, motivator, and a global game-changer for young girls. For her, nothing is impossible.

In the next episode of Play Bold, we have Circular Economy facilitator and former top executive, Fredrik Anderson, as a guest. He is a global transformer and advocate of circular economic models, the kind that create more value than they consume. Listen to a mind-blowing way of reasoning where you can free up resources and restore the planet simultaneously.

In this episode, we have Greg Spillane as a guest. Greg is one of the most renowned turnaround specialists, who is now turning Fancy.com around. He uses innovation management mixed with financial insights, higher purpose, motivation theories, and creativity to get the job done. Listening to how a turnaround expert takes a case, plans, enrolls and overcomes hurdles.

Brant Cooper, the New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Entrepreneur and CEO of Moves the Needle is our next guest on Play Bold. He is a very bold coach, getting you to think fast and slowly at the same time while getting ready for disruption at multiple and parallel times. Brant Cooper, who is working on his next book, called Disruption Bulletproof, shares some of his new insights now on Play Bold.