Leading Innovation
Whether you know it or not, innovation is the key to your organization’s survival, but leading innovation is perhaps one of the biggest mysteries for business leaders today. Leaders know they have to do it, but they have little idea in terms of how to do it. Join Dr. John Lowry every week to gain a starting point and to learn the skills you need to create a culture of innovation within your company or organization. Every episode will uncover practical skills that will help you unleash the creative potential of your people, team, and organization. We'll also talk with leaders of the most innovative companies and learn how they made it happen. There's too much at stake and too much to lose for you not to innovate. Join us every other week to learn how to lead innovation.
Episodes
28 episodes
A Powerful 3-Step System for Breakthroughs with Barry O’Reilly
There’s a learning curve to running any successful business. But once you begin to rely on past achievements or get stuck in outdated thinking and practices that no longer work, you need to take a step back―and unlearn. This innovative and acti...
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Episode 27
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42:54
How to Master Change w/ Harvard Business School's Rosabeth Moss Kanter (#26)
One of the leading business thinkers in the world offers a bold, new theory of advanced leadership for tackling the world's complex, messy, and recalcitrant social and environmental problems. In this episode we have the pleasure of speak...
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Episode 26
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46:51
Driving Innovation with Design Thinking: Todd McCullough
In this episode, we delve into the transformative power of design thinking and its potential to drive innovation within corporate environments. We explore how organizations can leverage this human-centered approach to foster creativity, solve c...
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Episode 25
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46:08
Disrupting the Dirt World with Aaron Witt, CEO of BuildWitt
In this episode we sit down with Aaron Witt, CEO of BuildWitt, to discuss his journey from starting an Instagram account to building a company with a multi-million dollar valuation. In this conversation, Aaron shares how his curiosity, passion,...
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Episode 24
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43:28
The Life-Changing Practice of Paying Attention: Paul Angone
Whether you know it or not, there is a war happening right now for your attention. How are you directing your attention and focus at work and in life? Or are you losing the battle to distractions? Paying attention is a lost art and if you're go...
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Episode 23
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47:36
The Secrets to Leading High Performing Teams: Heather Smith Sawyer of Thrivence
It's not easy leading high performing teams. There's complexity, pressure, stress, and performance milestones you're aiming to achieve. In this episode, we had the pleasure of chatting with one of our own senior consultants, Heather Smith Sawye...
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Episode 22
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25:29
The Enneagram, EQ, & Self Awareness with Scott Allender
As a leader, emotional intelligence (EQ) is one of the biggest predictors of your personal and professional success, and the key to effectively developing your EQ is tying it to your own personality type. In today's episode we have the privileg...
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Episode 21
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49:39
What Innovators Can Learn from Kids: Tara MacDougall
In today's episode we have the opportunity to hear from someone who works with some of the best innovators in the world. You would think that innovator is someone like Elon Musk, but it's not. Our guest works with people who have been proven by...
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Episode 20
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30:30
How to Build a Culture of Deep Creativity & Innovation: Alf Rehn
If you've ever felt fatigued by your work in leading innovation, it is our hope this episode will be a breath of fresh air. This episode features Alf Rehn, a globally noted thought leader in innovation and author of "Innovation for the Fatigued...
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Episode 19
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52:29
Disrupting from Within: A Step-by-Step Approach for Successful Innovation with David Wedemeyer
Innovative leaders or “intrepreneurs” often experience resistance inside large organizations. After all, leading innovation can be viewed as disruptive, competitive, or even a distraction from a company’s mission. But what if there was a way to...
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Episode 18
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36:58
Resilience & Reinvention: The Inspiring Story of Dr. Herman Williams
As leaders and as humans, we sometimes have to change directions. But how do you manage when your entire life changes? For many of us, between 2020 and 2022, we had to pivot our work, re-think business, or reinvent ourselves entirely. In today'...
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Episode 17
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38:03
The Intersections of Hope & Innovation: Dr. Greg Jones, President of Belmont University
Today's episode features Dr. Greg Jones, the president of Belmont University. Dr. Jones is an entrepreneurial and innovative leader, and what we learn from him is that hope is the orientation to the future. What we long for in communities, orga...
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Episode 16
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35:16
How to Maximize Innovation and Efficiency in Your Organization: Marty Paslick
Complex businesses and organizations must be efficient to succeed. But how can leaders structure their organization and lead in such a way that rewards efficiency and innovation simultaneously? That’s what we’re discussing today with Marty Pasl...
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Episode 15
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34:06
How to Unlock the Power of the Workforce to Drive Innovation: Ann Hatcher
Shortages of workers, global pandemics, looming recessions, generations leaving, and new generations emerging. The workforce is a hot topic today for a good reason. If you’re a business leader, your greatest asset is your people. But how can yo...
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Episode 14
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30:46
Why You Shouldn't Skip the Steps in Process Innovation: A Conversation with Shawn Valenta
Not all innovation is created equal. Not all groundbreaking ideas come in a flash. Oftentimes, an innovative idea is developed in small, incremental steps. On today's episode, Shawn Valenta shares how he uses process innovation to improve...
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Episode 13
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31:08
What Leaders Will Need in 2023 to Be Successful
Leaders will face uncertainty this year. The workplace will look different and employees needs will be different. As a result, a new kind of leadership needs to emerge in 2023 because some of the old ideas won’t work anymore. What does this new...
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Episode 12
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24:35
How to Solve Any Problem with 9 Simple Words
Problems are pervasive in every season of leadership. But how you solve a problem is sometimes just as important as the solution. In today’s episode, Dr. John Lowry will provide a simple process for solving any problem. Whether it’s a problem w...
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Episode 11
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18:56
Matthew Griffith: Designing for Multiple End Users
On today's episode we have Matthew Griffith, the business unit leader and vice president for Gould Turner Group, a Nashville-based firm that specializes in designing healthcare spaces. This team of architects and designers have come up with an ...
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Episode 10
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33:32
Bob Higgins: CEO of Barge Design Solutions
Bob Higgins is CEO of Barge Design Solutions. He has been with the firm since 1996 when he started as an intern following graduation from the School of Engineering at Vanderbilt University with a degree in Civil Engineering. Since becoming Pres...
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Episode 9
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37:06
7 Ways to Innovate within a Bureaucratic Organization
What if you want to improve your organization but the organization doesn’t want to change? As we pursue change and improvement, we run into resistance: a culture of comfort, processes that can’t be changed, and a host of other things. In this e...
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Episode 8
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22:04
How to Prepare Your Organization for Change without Breaking the Culture
Change is constant. Whether it’s a shift in strategy, a change in location, or new personnel, organizations and companies experience every day. But how can we as leaders prepare our people for change without breaking the culture? In today's epi...
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Episode 7
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20:36
The Curious Connection Between Hospitality & Innovation
Very rarely will you hear people speak the words hospitality and innovation in the same breath, but it turns out these two concepts are connected. If you lead innovation, you must facilitate an environment of psychological saf...
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Episode 6
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24:04
5 Ways Leaders Can Facilitate Innovation Inside Your Organization
Innovation is important for the success of every organization or team. But innovation doesn't just happen. You, the leader, have to set the table for genius to flourish inside your organization. That's what today's episode is all about: how to ...
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Episode 5
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17:08
9 Qualities of an Innovative Leader
Leading Innovation can feel like one of the biggest challenges in business today. We know it’s important but we can’t always see the day-to-day clearly or know how to make innovation work inside our organizations. The truth is leading innovatio...
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Episode 4
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25:58
8 Ways to Kill Innovation Inside Your Team or Organization
What does espionage and innovation have in common? The answer may surprise you. In 1944, the Office of Strategic Services (the predecessor of the CIA) published a field manual for sabotage. In this manual, they taught spies how to create chaos ...
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Episode 3
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19:03