Total Innovation Podcast
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. Powered by Wazoku, helping to Change the World, One Idea at a Time.
53. Deepa Krishnamurthy - The parts beneath the parts
Deepa Krishnamurthy began her working life as a cost accountant on the floor of a tractor plant in India, surrounded by production schedules and inventory. From there, her path ran through finance, real estate, investing, Harvard — and, decades later, somehow all the way back to the factory floor. S
52. Samuel Arbesman: Decay, Wonder and Where Knowledge Lives
Samuel Arbesman is a complexity scientist and writer. He is passionate about bringing together seemingly unrelated ideas from science and technology. Samuel works with companies and founders that recognize that the future happens at these boundaries, in such areas as open science, tools for thought,
51. Samuel West - The Honest Truth About Failure
Innovation is lonely work. Sam West built a museum of failure to make visible what organisations hide — and found it gives people permission. Working in innovation is lonely. You're usually pushing against the culture, not with it. You're the person asking "why not?" in rooms ful
50: Simon Hill - 50 Episodes In: Lessons from the Innovation Frontline
50 episodes. 4 seasons. One stubborn question: what does it take to make innovation work? Simon Hill looks back at the lessons so far. One stubborn question: what does it actually take to make innovation work? In this special milestone edition, host Simon Hill steps out from behind the interviewer&a
49. Mike Butcher MBE: Tech, Truth and Finding the Path
Mike Butcher (M.B.E.) is the Founder and Editor of Pathfounders. He was formerly the Editor-at-large for TechCrunch for 18 years. He has been a technology journalist since 1995. He has written for UK national newspapers and magazines and been named one of the most influential people in European tech
48. Gina Lucarelli: Grassroots Innovations: UNDP Accelerator Lab Network
Gina built the world’s largest network of social innovation labs at the United Nations and currently teaches at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The innovation lab network that she built was the United Nation's largest investment in sustainability innovation (115 countries). Her wo
47. Martin Eriksson: The Decision Stack: How Strategic Alignment Unlocks Organizational Momentum
Martin Eriksson has spent three decades helping organisations figure out why they're stuck — and what to do about it. He's been building digital products since 1994, built SaaS before anyone called it SaaS, and has worked his way through companies of every size and stage: The Financial Tim
46. Vladislav Belousov: How to be a successful solver
Vladislav grew up in Russia. He left to pursue a doctorate in Italy. He has worked in industrial automation, certified himself across robotics and control systems, served an internship at Bosch Rexroth, and built a career working on the kind of complex engineering problems that most people would fin
45. Fernanda Torre: Governing in the Age of AI and Sustainability:
Fernanda Torre is a recognized expert in sustainability-driven innovation and CEO of the consultancy Next Agents , whose mission is to create value for people and the planet—both now and into the future. She is also the co-founder of One Global Action , an international initiative that fosters capac
44. Sonia Ferreira: Inside Maersk’s Innovation Ecosystem
Sonia is a global executive, board member and strategic advisor with over 20 years of experience across Europe, USA, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Bringing a blend of commercial strategy, technology leadership and innovation expertise, with a focus on enterprise-level decision-making, long-term va
43. Marta Jakab: Aligning Strategy, Innovation, and AI
Marta started her journey in innovation in 1998 as the product manager of the first idea management platform, which became a market leader and served global customers such as Pfizer, Cargill, Belgacom and many more, to which she also consulted on innovation best practices. Subsequently, Marta moved
42. Robyn Bolton: The Value Gap: How Leaders Unlock Real Innovation
Robyn Bolton works with leaders of medium and large businesses to help them navigate uncertainty and confidently grow revenue. At MileZero, she has worked with companies including Medtronic, Ariadne Labs, and Teachers Pay Teachers to transform deep customer insights into viable businesses. She has a
41. Tom Staley: Why Open Innovation Still Fails – and How the Best Organisations Are Finally Making It Work
Recognised as a Trusted Advisor, Tom works across the Public, Private and Defence Sectors, enabling organisations to establish the foundations to innovate, while leverage the capabilities of a diverse partner ecosystem; from startups to hyperscalers, in order to experiment, scale and commercialise n
40. Susanna Laurson: The Edge Advantage: Building Innovation from the Faroe Islands
Súsanna Laursen is one of the driving forces behind the Faroe Islands' emerging innovation ecosystem. Based in Tórshavn, she works at Hugskotið — the Islands' startup incubator, founded in 2014 by the municipality of Tórshavn — where she supports early-stage founders and helps shape an env
39. Alexander Osterwalder - The Era Business Model Innovation
Dr. Alexander Osterwalder is one of the world's most influential thinkers in strategy and innovation. A Swiss entrepreneur, author, and speaker, he is best known as the co-creator of the Business Model Canvas — a deceptively simple one-page tool that has been adopted by millions of practitioner
38. Expected Value - Chapter 15 & Epilogue
This is final episode of this season and the closing chapter in the Expected Value Story. In this episode, we look at the future of innovation. Innovation without adaptation is just novelty. The future belongs to those who can continuously evolve their innovation system. Over this season, we've
37. Expected Value - Chapter 14
In this episode we explore chapter fourteen from metrics to mindsets. Thus far in the story we have seen that the numbers look great. XV across the portfolio was strong. Strategic fit profiles were improving, kill decisions were happening faster, reallocations were smooth. On paper, Freya's inn
36. Expected Value - Act 4 Chapters 12 & 13
In this episode, we move to Act 4, where the spotlight moves from frameworks to people. Freya's team can score ideas, prioritize bets, and balance the portfolio. But now they face the harder challenge, embedding innovation into the culture itself. We'll see how they bridge the gap between
35. Expected Value - Chapter 11
In this episode we step into chapter 11, learning loops and dynamic resourcing, where Freya discovers the fundamental truth at the heart of innovation performance. Namely, the value of an innovation is directly proportional to how much we learn from it, irrespective of whether it succeeds or fails.
34. Expected Value - Chapter 10
In this episode, we explore chapter 10, Lines of Trust, which takes us beyond governance and into the invisible systems that make innovation work or fall apart. Freya and her team have built structure. The XV model, the fit radar, the S-curve, and a new three-tier governance system. On paper, it&apo
33. Expected Value - Act 3 Chapters 8 & 9
This week's exclusive release from Expected Value, the system to prove, measure, and scale value. In this episode we enter Act 3, Total Portfolio Intelligence. Most organizations don't suffer from a lack of innovation, they suffer from a lack of innovation clarity. Ideas live in spreadshee
32. Expected Value - Chapter 7
“Innovation doesn't happen in a vacuum. It happens in cycles” In this chapter, we're diving into one of the most powerful and often misunderstood forces shaping innovation performance, the S-curve. Innovation doesn't happen in straight lines, it happens in cycles. Technologies evolve,
31. Expected Value - Chapter 6
"Innovation without alignment is just novelty. Strategic alignment without innovation is just stagnation. The magic happens at the intersection." In the chapters so far, we've moved from understanding value to learning how to measure confidence and timing. Now, in this next chapter, O
30. Expected Value - Act 2, Chapter 5
“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.” Albert Einstein Innovation has no shortage of frameworks, toolkits, or canvas templates. But too often, those tools complicate instead of clarifying. They add noise instead of structure. They create motion without meani
29: Expected Value - Chapters 2,3 & 4
In this second episode we move from illusion to understanding. Chapters two through four unpack the real performance gap in innovation and introduce the X V system, a data-informed way to calculate the expected value of ideas. We explore how confidence, value, and time sensitivity come together to c
28: Expected Value - Act 1 Chapter 1
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 t
27: Ludvig Bergstrom - The New Nordics
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
26: Marco Miglioli - Lighting the Way
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 Ca
25: Fernanda Torre: Collaborate. Innovate. Act – Together for the Planet.
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 y
24: Victoria Milne - ISO56001
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, chall
23: Pavlo Ryzhiy - The capital of failure
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 organi
22: Juan Martin: Se puoi sognarlo, puoi farlo” (“If you can dream it, you can do it.”)
“ 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 experien
21: John Winsor: Think Differently, Embrace Open
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 organiz
20: Jayshree Seth: Innovation Thought Leadership
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
19: Carla Lopez: Humanitarian Crowd Solving Part 2
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
18: Harry Sangree: Humanitarian Crowd Solving - Part 1
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 a
17: Tim Bernstein: Unlocking Impact from Open Innovation
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 sys
16. Paul Hobcraft: Building effective ecosystems
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 compl
15. Mike Todasco: The creative innovators journey
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
14. Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva: Mastering Reinvention
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
13.Gijs van Wulfen: Breaking innovation barriers
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 drive
12. Ian Small: Building a water innovation ecosystem
Ian is the Innovation Lead at Expedition Engineering. Building on his networking skills and interest in new technologies Ian is working to connect people and teams to deliver amazing outcomes for our clients. Ian's primary focus at the moment is developing ways to accelerate the scale up and ad
11.Tom Goodwin: Digital isn't a thing - it's everything
Tom Goodwin is a writer, speaker and advertising and media provocateur and consultant. He has been voted a top 10 voice in Marketing by LinkedIn, one of 30 people to follow on Twitter by Business Insider , and a 'must follow' by Fast Company . An industry commentator on the future of marke
10.Greg Satell: How to keep your ideas alive
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 Change and Mapping Innovation . His work has appeared in top publications like Harvard Bu
9. Runar Reistrup: Unicorns in our midst
Runar is CEO at YunoJuno, one of the most impactful companies to come out of the UK in recent years. Runar was previously the CEO of Depop (sold to Etsy for $1.6bn), scaling the company through multiple funding rounds from early stage startup to market dominance in the UK and successful expansion in
8. Balaji Bondili: The Pixilated Future of Work
Balaji is a Product, P&L and Innovation leader with extensive experience ideating, incubating, developing customer-centric products and operating innovative product businesses. Deep industry expertise in Life Sciences, Healthcare, Innovation, Future of Work and Contingent Workforce. Currently te
7.Steve Rader: Open Innovation at NASA
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
6.Nathalie Nahai: Ethics in the Age of AI
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
5.Stephen Shapiro: Innovate where you Differentiate
Welcome to our podcast, where we dive deep into the world of innovation with the help of expert Stephen Shapiro. Stephen is a renowned innovation advisor who has dedicated his career to helping leaders and teams tackle complex business challenges and improve their innovation models and cultures. Aft
4.Bea Schofield, Lloyds Banking Group: The Innovation Centre of Enablement
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 experienc
3. Kyle Basler-Reeder, ExxonMobil: How to Unlock the Power of the Global Crowd - Part 2
This podcast, over two parts, digs into how Kyle designed, built, and now leads ExxonMobil's corporate-wide open innovation program. He built a high-impact capability from a standing start in less than eighteen months, helping teams across the company solve some of the most challenging problems
2. Kyle Basler-Reeder, ExxonMobil - How to Unlock the Power of the Global Crowd - Part 1
This podcast over two parts digs into how Kyle designed, built, and now leads ExxonMobil's corporate wide open innovation program, building a high impact capability from a standing start in less than eighteen months, helping teams across the company to solve some of the most challenging problem
1. Aidan McCullen - Award-Winning speaker, Author, and Host of the Innovation Show.
We're delighted that our inaugural guest is Aidan McCullen. Aidan is the host and founder of the Innovation Show, the most subscribed to innovation podcast, which boasts Bill Gates as a listener and advocate and features on Irelands national broadcaster RTÉ . He reinvented himself after a 10-ye
Total Innovation Podcast Trailer
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 wi