Members-Only Meetings: Career Paths for Innovators
We regularly convene IL members for discussions on topics of interest — which members suggest. These meetings take place on Zoom, and they are designed to be candid conversations among peers, as opposed to passive webcasts. If you’re a current IL member and are logged in, you will see a short registration form (or calendar links) beneath the description of each meeting. We always like to hear suggestions for future meeting topics from our members.
For a complete calendar of all of our in-person and online gatherings, please visit our events page.
February 28th at 12 PM ET: Is There a Career Path for Innovators in Big Organizations?
Join veterans of innovation, R&D, and emerging technology roles in companies like Whirlpool, Allstate, Honeywell, Fidelity Investments, HSBC, PA Consulting, and Adidas, to talk about career management and moving up the ladder in the innovation space — which can be anything but predictable. How should you be thining about your next move? Bring your questions and experiences.
March 13th at 12 PM ET: Creating Your Own Custom AI Assistant
Michael Hayes of Practical.AI returns for a crash course on “AI Assistants 101.” You’ll discover how to use Gemini Gems (Google), Claude Projects (Anthropic), and CustomGPTs (OpenAI) to:
• Automate repetitive tasks
• Boost creativity
• Streamline workflows.
If you haven’t experimented with Gems, Projects, or CustomGPTs, what are you waiting for? (Here are the video and slides from Hayes’ last AI literacy workshop for the InnoLead community.)
April 4th at 12 PM ET: How can innovators beat the odds — and create more winners?
For our April members’ meeting, we’ll be joined by Stuart Jackson and Ilya Trakhtenberg, the co-authors of the new book Predictable Winners: A Handbook for Developing, Forecasting, and Launching New Products and Services. In it, they address the challenge that 80-90 percent of new product and service innovations fail. They say these odds can be improved with a leadership mindset that manages uncertainty through a systematic approach at each step of the innovation journey. We’ll dive into their ideas in our April conversation — including the biggest pitfalls to avoid.
* To participate in our members-only meetings, you’ll need an active membership to InnoLead. Contact Scott Cohen with questions.
We don’t typically record our member meetings, but past meeting topics have included:
- Sustainability, Social Impact + Innovation at Tory Burch (Notes here)
- Real-World AI Deployment with Andy Lee of Indeed (Video here)
- AI Literacy for Business Execs (Video and slides here)
- The Future of Consulting (Audio and notes here)
- Open Innovation Strategy (Video and notes here)
- Innovation in the Pharma Industry (Notes here)
- Get Hands-On with the New AI Vision Map (Map download here)
- Emerging Technology Trends in 2024 and Beyond (Notes here)
- How Will Gen AI Tools Change the Innovation Function? (Video and resources here)
- How You’re Using or Redesigning Physical Innovation Spaces, and How You’re Creating Persistent Virtual Spaces for Innovation (Notes here)
- Metrics and Communication (Notes here)
- The State of Innovation in CPG
- Driving Results in Nonprofits, Government, and Academia
- How Can You Get Innovation to Permeate the Organization
- Navigating a Downturn and Delivering ROI
- Generating Short-Term Wins to Let You Work on Long-Term Initiatives
- Building & Sustaining a High-Performance Innovation Team
- VR and the Metaverse
- Driving Innovation in Sustainability
