The Heart of Innovation
The world needs innovation now more than ever. The good news is that you can train yourself to be a better innovator. Join former Google Engineering Executive and Superintendent of Well-being Bill Duane as he dives deep with innovators from business, science, social change and technology on the internal innovation that unlocks external innovation. More information at www.billduane.com Theme music Where's Leon by kind permission of Taraval
Episodes
13 episodes
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 ...
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1:12:32
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 sup...
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1:05:51
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 Ph...
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1:10:02
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....
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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 an...
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Intuition or Bias? How to make decisions with confidence with Cheryl Strauss Einhorn
Cheryl Strauss Einhorn is an award-winning investigative reporter at New York Times and Foreign Policy Magazine, Barron’s who wanted to be sure she could navigate complexity and ambiguity in the high stakes world of finance with confid...
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Design is an Act of Love with Irene Au
Irene Au has been building bridges between technology and creativity her whole life. From being the child of Chinese immigrants in South Carolina who wanted to study design and dance (but chose engineering) to being the voice of user centric de...
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1:01:26
Should I Stay or Should I Go with Cecily Mak
Cecily Mak has been wildly successful at the forefront of innovation and has had several careers: modeling, law, start-up executive and venture firm co-founder in the fields of music, publishing, mindfulness/wellbeing, and now crypto. However, ...
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Put Me In Coach, I'm Ready to Play with Josh Lifrak
The world of professional sports is undergoing massive innovation in how it deals with mental health and training in the context of high stakes performance. This innovation comes from a surprising combination of player and organization desire f...
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1:15:04
Don't You Ever Stop Long Enough to Start? With Eric Antonow
The Clash were musical and social innovators, so why is it surprising that their lyrics describe a very key aspect of creativity- that you need to include stopping as part of the process of creation. In this episode we explore this su...
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From Me to We, a Crypto Story with Marquis Harmon
Entrepreneur Marquis Harmon shares his story of creating the world you want despite the imperfectness of the world. His story is a powerful one and he shares his superpower of shifting from Me to We that has powered his values, intentions, crea...
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