Activate Innovation Lounge
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S1E11 Episode 11: How leaders can (and should sustain) grassroots innovation
In the first part of this conversation, Alexis Samuel laid out what he calls the Baker's Dozen. Twelve building blocks for activating grassroots innovation in a large enterprise.From the CEO's call…
S1E11 Who knows best what needs to be solved?
There is a tension in how organizations think about activating employee innovators.Who knows best what needs to be solved?The leader who sees the business from the top? Or the employee who lives the…
S1E10 Episode 10: Why should leaders activate grassroots innovators with Alexis Samuel
Why do most innovation programs generate excitement but deliver nothing? You collect hundreds of ideas. Award the best ones. Then watch them die in handoff limbo. Alexis Samuel has spent decades…
S1E9 Episode 9: How can leaders measure the business value of innovation with Simon Hill
Innovation is inherently uncertain because it is about the future. That uncertainty is also the reason innovation gets cut first when budgets tighten. Most leaders cannot put a number on the value…
S1E8 Episode 8: How to build an innovation system that never stops with Dan Toma, Outcome
Innovation is not failing because organizations lack ideas. It is failing because the system that should turn ideas into outcomes was never built. And every year it stays broken, bad ideas keep dying…
S1E7 Episode 7: Why every organization, including yours, needs an innovation garage?
About this episode:Every organization should have its own garage. Not just a physical space, but a program that allocates resources and time for employees to tinker, experiment, and push their own…
S1E6 Episode 6: What does it take to design and run a successful innovation challenge with Elaine Chin
When Elaine Chin designs a challenge, she is not just writing a problem statement. She is translating years of internal work into a question the world can answer. In this episode of Activate…
S1E5 Episode 5: How to start asking better questions with Stephen Shapiro
What if the reason your innovation efforts keep failing is not because you lack ideas, but because you are asking less questions than you should? Stephen Shapiro, author and creator of a 20,000…
S1E4 Episode 4: What if your organization is solving the wrong problem?
In this episode, I talk to Jon A. Fredrickson, pioneer in open innovation and founder of Einstein's 55, who’s dedicated most of his career to working Fortune 500 companies, government, and nonprofit…
S1E3 Episode 3: On power of permission with Jan Fischer, Innosabi
In this conversation, Jan Fischer discusses the critical role of employee innovation in organizations and how to create a culture that fosters creativity and engagement. He emphasizes that innovation…
S1E2 Episode 2: Unlocking innovation and innovation leadership with Robyn Bolton
Leaders complain they don't have enough ideas. Yet every organization is full of people naturally full of ideas. So what's locking those ideas up?Robyn Bolton is Chief Navigator at MileZero and…
S1E1 Episode 1: Activating Innovation with Eugene Ivanov and the Power of Crowdsourcing
In this conversation, Iliriana Kaçaniku and Eugene Ivanov explore the evolution and significance of open innovation and crowdsourcing. They discuss the differences between co-creation and…
Launching Activate Innovation Lounge
I launched Activate Innovation Lounge with a single mission: uncover how organizations create the conditions that unleash innovation talent already within their teams. In each episode, I sit down…
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Activate Innovation Lounge has published 13 episodes since November 2025, covering topics in Business, Management.
Activate Innovation Lounge is currently highly active with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 59m.
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