Jason Breen, Senior Director of Accelerators, Target.
Caitlin Harper of InnoLead’s events team greets participants at Target’s downtown headquarters complex.
Participants listen as Andrew Lipstein of Thomson Reuters Labs makes a point.
Steven Hupert of ECMC Group with Pam Krengel of Moves the Needle.
Noel Sobelman of Moves the Needle with Tim Koch of Farm Credit Services of America.
Pam Kengel and Simeon Sessley of Moves the Needle.
Bruce McGoogan, Strategy InnoLead at Cargill.
Laura Nereng, New Business Development Manager at 3M.
Dave Martin, Chief Strategy Officer of Farm Credit Services of America.
Brant Cooper of Moves the Needle helps guide the roundtable conversation.
Cristin Moran, CEO of Growth Science.
Kirsten Aune, Director of Strategy & Innovation, General Mills.
Danny Gelfman, Senior Solutions Designer, Medtronic.
Cristin Moran of Growth Science, Scott Kirsner of InnoLead, and Ethan Bagley, Director of Innovation at J.J. Keller & Associates.
Participants listen to Simeon Sessley of Moves the Needle.
Ann Finkner, Chief Administrative Officer of Farm Credit Services of America, participates in a breakout activity.
Brant Cooper of Moves the Needle runs an activity about leadership behaviors that support change and innovation.
In July, we brought together 15 innovation and R&D leaders from large organizations in Minneapolis. The gathering was hosted at Target’s headquarters.
Our roundtables are off-the-record, primarily because they’re designed to enable a group of peers to openly discuss issues they face. At this gathering, excutives disucssed why companies fail at innovation and how they can become hardwired for change. Other topics of conversation included:
- How to get leaders to participate in innovation
- Balancing execution with exploration
- Leadership behaviors that support and foster innovation.
Special thanks to Moves the Needle for co-hosting the event.
If you’re a corporate innovation, strategy, or R&D leader and you’d like to join an upcoming roundtable, you can request an invite here. Our next roundtable gatherings will be in Chicago on September 26th and Boston on November 7th.
(Photos by Doug Knutson for InnoLead.)
