Ken Stearns is a grandfather, father, midwestern boy, writer, speaker, photographer, and lyricist.

He was an international insurance executive that quit to pursue his dreams of traveling the country meeting people, hearing their stories.

He hosts The Jar Live, a unique podcast that focuses on real people and real conversations.

His American upbringing, living in 5 countries, working in 20 over the last 20 years gives him a wide ranging view on life, people, travel, business, food, culture.

In our conversation we dive into the store of the Jar and how he got to record podcasts with strangers like Tom the Flower man. We talk about his book Dear God and explore how all of this will enable change in leadership in this world.

The topic of the episode: Corporate Innovation - How to build an innovation team?

• Questions I answered in the live show:

• What is the right org setup for innovation?

• How do I find the right people for innovation?

• Do I need to lead innovators differently?

• How do I train people to innovate?

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is: How to build innovation Culture?

Some of the questions I’ll cover in this episode:

• What is innovation culture?

• How to build an innovation culture?

• Why does a company benefit from an innovation culture?

• How to build an innovation lab?

• What is the difference between innovation and entrepreneurship?

• How to build an innovation strategy?

• Innovation Culture vs Innovation Management

Monica Canfield Lenfest, Healer, Teacher, Project Manager and curious collaborator of architecting curiosity.

Monica and I explore her story how she early on learned the value of authenticity the physical move to San Francisco changed her life and of course healing, teaching and curiosity in all depth to innovate yourself and business.

Daniel Ospina Organization & Social System Designer and former Head of (decentralized) Governance at Aragon joined me to talk about organization design in the web 3 environment and the power of decentralized autonomous organizations.

Ask Agger CEO of Workz, a Danish change agency specialized in organizational culture, serious games, radical innovation, and experience design.

How to innovate through a powerful structured and result oriented innovation method? Rex Bierlaagh, entrepreneur in (social) innovation management joined me to deconstruct a fictive case in the Innovation Culture Coding live show.

How the travel industry has to change their business model. Elena Rodríguez Blanco, Impact Investor, Travel Futurist,Speaker, Intl' Bestseller Author and Social Entrepreneur joined me to deconstruct a fictive case in the Innovation Culture Coding live show.

How to build human capabilities that change organizations for good. Michael Leckie Consultant & Advisor for Change and Transformation and Author joined me to deconstruct a fictive case in the Innovation Culture Coding live show.

Innovation Culture Coding featuring Aga Szóstek. Innovate through differentiation. How to stand out in a market that is commoditized.

By asking insightful questions, building partnerships with clients and engaging expertise, Executive/Career Coach Tammy Gooler Loeb customizes an approach that yields empowering results for your career.

In this episode I connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship together with

Roel van den Berg Owner of Access to Quality. We explore his passion for mountain climbing, traveling and his view of innovation, change, culture and transformation.

In this episode I connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship together with Anthony Vade who is telling about his story moving from Australia to Canada and how growing up with a screwdriver in his hand enabled him to be one of the highest ranked event designers in America.

In this episode we connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship through mindfulness. Stacy Conlon shares her story on how she came into mindfulness worked in large companies and is now using the power of the mind to support people and companies to do so too.

Connecting the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship with Leigh Gamon. Leigh is Service Design Lead at Fjord the Innovation & Design arm of Accenture. She is an experienced change and culture designer.