Jimmy Burroughes The Expert for ways of working helps leaders to change and nurture the culture.

Jimmy shares his story from his leadership development inside the Army and we explore leadership from different angles. We talk about leadership training, leadership culture and performance.

Niraj Kapur, LinkedIn top Voice in Sales, Trusted Sales Coach and LinkedIn Trainer joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship. Niraj shares sales advice for startups on how they can use LinkedIn and the importance of relationship management.

Lemuel Lasher International Executive, Investor, CEO of Boehme Eckhart LCC and Chairman of the Board of LEO - Leading Edge Only joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Lem shared his story being Chief Innovation Officer at CSC, the setup, structure and how he changed the innovation culture in CSC. We talk about how he is helping organizations to innovate and the 4 critical questions he is asking before he agrees to support a company. Furthermore we talked about LEO and the opportunities of a true global innovation marketplace. And last but not least he shares a dirty little secret about innovation.

Marina Specht CEO of McCann WorldGroup Spain. She spent the first half of her career as an entrepreneur, building a successful branded content agency. The last 15 years she focused on digital marketing, data strategy and digital business transformation, driving innovation and bottom line growth for Fortune 500 companies

Marina was awarded:

#Ad Age Women to Watch 2016

#PWC Women to Watch 2017-18

#Top 100 Leading Women Spain 2021

Marina shared her story and the superpower behind her success, and of course we talked about the innovation and changes in marketing and businesses over the last decades.

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is: How do I manage stakeholders - the human way?

Questions I cover in the show:

• How do I manage stakeholders - the human way?

• How to map stakeholders - the human way?

• Why should you build a relationship with your stakeholders to innovate?

• How to collaborate with stakeholders - the human way?

Andrew Dupy Chief Relationship Officer at Leaders Press, Author of the Book Don't buy the watch, joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship

Andrew shared his story, how he wrote his book and we explored the process of writing a book with the Leaders Press and the great potential for entrepreneurs.

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is: How to empower people to innovate?

Questions I cover in the show:

• How to transform a business the human way?

• How to lead a business transformation the human way?

• How to communicate a transformation the human way?

• How to involve employees in a business transformation the human way?

• How to ensure long term success in a business transformation the human way?

Sid Mofya, Executive Director at Draper Venture Network - a global alliance of our member funds, who are present on all continents, former Kauffman Fellow and musician joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Sid shared his story growing up in Sambia living in the UK and Tanzania before moving to Silicon Valley. We talk about which problems startups should solve, how startup founders develop, funding of startups and dive a bit into education and music.

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is: How to empower people to innovate?

Questions I cover in the show:

• How to empower people to innovate?

• How to delegate to innovate?

• How to build trust to innovate?

• How to collaborate to innovate?

• How to support personal and professional growth to innovate?

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is: What is the magic zone in human innovation?

Questions I cover in the live show:

What is the magic zone in human innovation?

Why do you call it the magic zone?

How does the magic zone play a role in my human innovation system?

How can I lead in the magic zone?

How do I engage with the community with the magic zone?

How do I impact a business with the magic zone?

Michael Wilkinson Founder and COO @ Everything has an incredible background from starting as an intern at crowdcube.com where he successfully managed 100+ fundraises totalling £50m+ in his first assignment then launching his own consulting business supporting startups in fundraising and today being part of the founding team of Everything - the financial experience that younger generations actually want.

Frank Peralta Product Designer and former professional Basketball player. Frank works in the Automotive industry and discovered a circular opportunity to integrate materials from the automotive industry into fashion. We talk about his story and how he sees Peralta Clothing developing.

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is: How do I lead myself

Questions I cover in the live show

• How Do I lead myself

• Why do so many people don’t know what their superpower is?

• How can we find our superpower?

• What is our Ambition and how can we find it?

• What are strategies to keep my ambition?

Ebonee Williams Website Strategist joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Ebonee helps women to succeed with a strategically built website. We explored her personal story working in fashion creating Ads for Mercedes Benz working as a journalist for ABC news in New York and how she thinks about websites, email marketing, traveling and more.

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

Last week I was interviewed by Katharina Mormann from Aragón Exterior here in Zaragoza Spain

Aragon Exterior is the Foreign Trade and Investment Promotion Agency of the Regional Government of Aragón, Spain.

Katharina established a Webinar / Podcast called La Ventana al Mundo - the window to the world

Enjoy the Q&A Moderated by Katharina Mormann

Matheus Provinciali, Innovation & Entrepreneurship Manager of Start UB and Associate professor of the Barcelona University and former professional football player from brazil joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship

Of course we talk football and look into how he used the football skills to build his startup and teaches at Barcelona University. We explore the Concept of Start UB and how they support students to build startups.

HIQA - Human Innovation Questions Answered

The topic of today’s episode is: How to build an innovation System for a company?

Because this is a complex topic I have created a PDF that supports visually what I explain.

The 4 parts I explain are:

Problem

• What do we want to solve and why?

Sourcing

• What are the ideas and solutions we want to test?

Validating

• What solution is valuable to scale?

Scaling

• How to measure and secure success long term

Sanjay Bhargava International Disruptive Innovation Expert joined me again after his appearance on Episode 117 Disruptive Innovation to explore a new concept about how all innovators can work together to eliminate poverty.

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

Paul Teasdale Performance Expert and former Operational Performance Specialist of McLaren joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Paul works with people and helps them to perform. He shared his experience from motorsport how performance in business can be structured through insights data and the key part of the human in this equation.