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Welcome to "Total Innovation," the podcast where I explore all the different aspects of innovation, transformation and change. From the disruptive minds of startup founders to the strategic meeting rooms of global giants, I bring you the stories of change-makers. The podcast will engage with different voices, and peer into the multi-faceted world of innovation across and within large organisations.
I speak to those on the ground floor, the strategists, the analysts, and the unsung heroes who make innovation tick. From technology breakthroughs to cultural shifts within companies, I'm on a quest to understand how innovation breathes new life into business.
I embrace the diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, and experiences that inform and drive the corporate renewal and evolution from both sides of the microphone. The Total Innovation journey will take you through the challenges, the victories, and the lessons learned in the ever-evolving landscape of innovation.
Join me as we explore the narratives of those shaping the market, those writing about it, and those doing the hard work. This is "Total Innovation," where every voice counts and every story matters.
Brought to you by The Infinite Loop – Where Ideas Evolve, Knowledge Flows, and Innovation Never Stops.
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After a summer break, welcome back to season three of the pod. It's going to be a special season. I recently launched my latest book, Expected Value: The System to Prove, Measure, and Scale Value. And thanks to our sponsor Wazoku, across this season, you'll hear the full audio version of the book. It's a story, a system, and a toolkit designed to finally answer the question that every innovator faces. How do we prove, measure, and scale the value of the innovation work that we do? Each episod...
Ludvig Bergstrom is a tech entrepreneur and founder of Nordic Tech Week. He launched his first tech company five years ago while studying in Copenhagen before relocating to Stockholm. Frustrated by the inaccessibility of the tech ecosystem—where established conferences cost over €400 and many events were restricted to CEOs and established profiles—Ludvig recognized the need to democratize access to valuable tech insights. This experience inspired him to create Nordic Tech Week, a week-long se...
Marco is an award-winning lighting architect whose work spans cathedrals, museums, theatres—and now, refugee camps. He was the winning solver in the International Rescue Committee’s “Phosphorescence Technology for Lighting” challenge—a challenge we heard so movingly about in our conversation with Carla Lopez from the International Rescue Committee in an earlier episode in this season of the podcast. This episode is all about light: not just the technical or aesthetic side, but light as dignit...
Fernanda Torre is an educator, innovation strategist, co-founder of Next Agents, and one of the leading voices behind Global Green Action Day: a bold international initiative tackling plastic pollution through radical collaboration, circular economy principles, and AI-powered problem-solving. This year’s event took place on June 5th, aligning with UN World Environment Day, and activated innovators from Sweden, Portugal, Austria, and beyond. Furthermore, Torre is a Visiting Teacher affil...
Victoria spearheads global innovation initiatives and excellence in innovation management and methodologies, leveraging emerging and advanced technologies across diverse industries. She achieves outstanding growth through qualitative and quantitative research, strategy, accelerator management, challenge-led technology pilots, innovation ecosystems, senior leadership engagement, facilitation, thought leadership, design thinking, concept, proposition and business case development and creative p...
Pavlo Ryzhiy is a strategic advisor, catalyst, and integrator who specializes in connecting insights from strategy, innovation, business modelling, and organizational design to create solutions that others often overlook. Originally from Ukraine now based in Hamburg, Germany. Pavlo works with organizations that have previously failed at innovation programs, helping them take a second approach that actually sticks. The central concept discussed is "capital of failure" - the idea that failure s...
“Se puoi sognarlo, puoi farlo” (“If you can dream it, you can do it.”), Enzo Ferrari Dr. Juan Martin is an Intensive Care Consultant at Newham University Hospital NHS Trust, a Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, and a Medical Writer at Scienda Group. With over 17 years of experience as a successful innovator in the Wazoku solver ecosystem, Dr. Martin has developed groundbreaking solutions across multiple disciplines. Originally from Aragon, Spain, Dr. Martin began his me...
John is currently the executive-in-residence at Harvard Business School’s Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH), which studies AI and Workforce Transformation strategies, and founder and CEO of Open Assembly, a company that provides content, community, and strategic advising to organizations, people, and platforms to co-create the future of work. Recently, he has been leading a global industry coalition made up 4000 global leaders in the open talent and innovation industry to st...
Jayshree Seth is a Corporate Scientist at 3M and currently holds 80 patents for a variety of innovations, with several additional pending. She joined 3M in 1993 after an MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Clarkson University, New York. She is a Distinguished Alumni Award recipient from her alma mater REC Trichy India, now NIIT Trichy, where she earned a B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering. Jayshree was appointed 3M’s first ever Chief Science Advocate in 2018 and is using her scientifi...
Carla is a global health practitioner with 15 years of experience working on the stubborn issues that keep poor people in poverty. Her passion is to apply problem-solving approaches from human-centred design, behavioral insights, and the private sector to the development and humanitarian sector. She has worked in markets disrupted by the Ebola outbreak in Liberia and the earthquake in Haiti where the need for health services was heightened, client behaviour was fluid, and best practices were ...
Harry is a career-long specialist in generating and applying innovation. Passionate about innovation to solve the hardest problems in seafreight and humanitarian causes. Three times a key member of the leadership teams of early-stage technology companies that aggressively innovated, including once as a co-founder. Two grew from pre-revenue to enterprise values over $100 million. Domain expertise in the automation of the logistics of container shipping, global trade and export/import. ...
Tim helps large companies overcome internal hurdles to ignite externally sourced open innovation and technology acquisition, and facilitate technology transfer deals. He spends significant time delivering a wide range of IP and open innovation consulting services to clients, from open innovation system diagnostics to detailed technology and technology need evaluations to deal-assessment and execution. In addition to hands-on experience, Tim has an educational background in the IP industry i...
Paul Hobcraft is a globally recognized expert in business ecosystem innovation and design, ranked among the top 50 global thinkers in Ecosystems and Renewable Energies. With extensive international experience spanning Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Paul helps organizations navigate the complexities of ecosystem-driven innovation and unlock new growth opportunities. Drawing from his hands-on experience leading global businesses across consumer goods, specialty chemicals, and industrial...
Mike Todasco spends his days thinking about how AI will change how we create Using generative tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and the ever-growing slate. He used to work at PayPal, focused on innovation Where he evangelized creativity to employees of every nation. At PayPal he also had many roles in the field of product From management to marketing to launch, which was a bit chaotic. Previously, he founded a company, Sketch Maven Where long start-up nights turned his appeara...
Called ‘The Reinvention Guru’ (In Ventures magazine) and ‘The Queen of Reinvention’ (TEDx Navasink), Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva is a business owner, educator, speaker and author -- specializing in reinvention. Nadya has helped such organizations as The Coca-Cola Company, ENRC PLC, IBM, CISCO, Erste Bank, Henkel, Knauf Insulation, Vienna Insurance Group and many others to reinvent their products, processes, and leadership practices. She served as the Coca-Cola Chaired Professor of Sust...
Gijs van Wulfen (1960, based in Greece of Dutch origin) is a well-known global authority and trusted advisor on innovation, inspiring speaker, author of three innovation bestsellers, one of the top ten worldwide innovation bloggers, and a LinkedIn Influencer with 325.000+ followers. He is very driven to jump start innovation, because organisations struggle with the start of innovation in their day-to-day hectic business. He is a business economist with a master’s in management consultancy. Du...
Greg Satell is the Co-Founder of ChangeOS, a transformation and change advisory. He is an international keynote speaker and bestselling author of Cascades: How to Create a Movement that Drives Transformational Changeand Mapping Innovation. His work has appeared in top publications like Harvard Business Review and Forbes. As a Lecturer at Wharton, entrepreneur, and global executive, Greg helps organizations overcome resistance to change. He is recognized as a top innovation blogger and a...
Steve Rader serves as the Program Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) and the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL), which are working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. CoECI focuses on the study and use of curated, crowdsourcing communities that utilize prize and challenge-based methods to deliver innovative solutions for NASA and the U.S. government. In 2015, Steve was named as one of 20 C...
Nathalie Nahai’s background in human behaviour, web design and the arts offer a unique vantage point from which to examine the complex challenges we face with the rise of Generative AI today. Described as “a rare polymath with deep expertise in tech, marketing and psychology”, Nathalie draws upon a rich background in human behaviour, web design and the arts, to offer a unique vantage point from which to examine the complex challenges we face today. Having studied psychology and worked as a we...
Join Simon Hill, CEO of Wazoku, in an insightful conversation with Bea Schofield, an expert in Challenge Driven Innovation and co-author of the Corporate Explorer Fieldbook. Currently leading Corporate Exploration and Innovation at Lloyds Banking Group, Bea brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in driving innovation within large organizations. In this episode, Bea shares her professional journey, starting with her academic achievements, including a strategic innovation degree from Saïd ...
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