Fueling the Future through Inclusive Innovation Stories with Jennifer Joe
“Stories are just incredibly important. They’re not just stories. They’re visions of ourselves that we need to smell. We need to see. We need to touch. And we need to believe. Stories make them believable.” —Jennifer Joe, MD & founder of MedTech Boston and Vanguard.Health
Inspiring New Cultural Expectations in the Beauty Industry with Don Frey of The Honest Company
“You always have to be spurring other people to innovate—that will allow you to innovate the future.” —Don Frey, chief innovation officer at The Honest Company
Lifelong Learning + Open Innovation to Transform Culture with Steve Rader of NASA
“With open learning and lifelong learning, people can explore their interests and then start to stitch them together in ways that really are the engine behind innovation.” —Steve Rader, deputy director for the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation at NASA
Igniting Creativity and Leveraging Failure with Michael Todasco of Paypal
“Storytelling is so critical to the leadership process that we need to understand how it works at a high level, a corporate level, and a lower level, as well for any individual team. Within the innovation lab, everything starts with story.” —Michael Todasco, Senior Director of Innovation at PayPal
Innovation on a Global Scale with the Science & Technology Diplomatic Circle
“There’s been no better time to tell clear stories about science than today. And that is quintessentially the job of the scientist, regardless of their nationality or their location. And we have so many people who are talented at asking questions and they’re talented at answering them in really innovative and unique ways. But if they can’t convey that to the public, if they can’t translate that information or those ideas into a product, then it gets lost.” —Alicia Head of Innovation+ at Swissnex Boston
Empowering Women in Innovation with Debbie Saviano and Stacey Schieffelin
“Focus on the positive. Maintain your optimism. Get support and play and explore new ways of seeing and being in this world.” —Stacey Schieffelin of Women’s Leadership Live
Harnessing Curiosity + Creativity with Duncan Wardle of Disney
“Take your audience on a walk. Bring them out from behind the table and walk with them from one storyboard to the next and listen to their feedback. Instead of being reductionist and shooting your ideas down, they will build on your work as you go because when you walk with someone, you turn your presentation into a conversation. People will think expansively with you. They will build on your work as you go.” —Duncan Wardle, the former V.P. of innovation and creativity at the Walt Disney Company
Why Storytelling Matters to Innovation with Paul Andrew Smith
“Listening to other people’s innovation stories literally, I think, makes you more innovative. Just hearing that somebody else did something in a different industry, a completely different industry that was outside the box, done breaking the rules. Not only gives you a license to do it, but I think it literally gives you ideas for what can be done in your industry.” —Paul Andrew Smith
Introducing the Untold Stories of Innovation Podcast
“Innovation storytelling is the art of communicating new product developments, systems improvements and groundbreaking new thinking.” —Katie Trauth Taylor, CEO of Untold Content
