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Placing Better Bets in Innovation’s Messy Middle
Building Strategy + Innovation Capabilities (at a 198-Year Old Insurance Carrier)
Vibe Entrepreneurship: Building Prototypes, Not PowerPoints
Video from our July 2026 members’ meeting focused on “vibe entrepreneurship” and intrapreneurship.
How Innovation Teams Restructure and Reskill When AI Runs the Process
This replay with Berto Mill of Aucctus and corporate innovation veteran Harry Laplanche discussed how forward-looking teams are restructuring and reskilling for a world where AI runs the connected process.
Fighting for Your Budget: Using Visual Strategy to Prove Unseen Value
The Impact Gap: Why Enterprise Innovation Programs Stall — and What the Data Reveals
In this session, Qmarkets shares findings from a recent study of innovation maturity across enterprise organizations, including three patterns that explain why so many programs feel busy but can’t show results. Watch the replay or get the slides.
Innovation Storytelling: Bridge Divides and Win Support for Your Breakthrough Ideas
Video from our April 2026 members’ meeting featuring Susan Lindner, the host of the podcast Innovation Storytellers and a keynote speaker and trainer focused on teaching storytelling skills.
Customer Experience in Disruptive Times
Video from our March 2026 members’ meeting featuring Curtis Kopf, an innovation executive with experience working at Insulet, REI, Amazon, and Alaska Airlines, among others.
The ‘10 Commandments of Innovation,’ according to Moisés Noreña
Video from our January 2026 members’ meeting featuring Moisés Noreña, Head of Product and Innovation at MiTek.
Success Considerations for Type I vs Type II Innovation Programs
In this webcast replay, Chris Townsend of Wellspring details the differences between Type I and Type II innovation programs.
‘Extreme Shipping’ with George Leimer of Yahoo
Video from our November 2025 members’ meeting featuring George Leimer, GM of Yahoo! Finance and former Head of Product and Technology of Yahoo! Sports.
High ROI Innovation: Affordable Activities with the Best Returns
This webcast explores how low-cost, real-world experiments can deliver insights that traditional user research and surveys can’t. Josh Clayton and Tim Ogilvie of Peer Insight share stories of simple, rapid tests that saved millions, revealed customer truths, and built executive confidence.
Blind Spots, Big Bets, and Turning Uncertainty into Innovation
Matthew Heim from Ezassi and Jon Mello from Teknor Apex share their advice for entering new markets.
Data Insights: Purchasing and Adoption of AI Tools
Video overview of an InnoLead research report on how corporate assess and acquire AI tools.
Advice from The LEGO Group’s Creative Play Lab
What can other company’s learn from The LEGO Group’s Creative Play Lab? Check out these short videos…
The AI-Native Business Design Toolkit
AI is changing how new businesses are designed. This webcast features Matt Stewart of Disruptive Edge providing a hands-on walkthrough of some AI-native tools they’re using to reshape early-stage innovation.
Video Case Study: Rapid Prototyping with GenAI
Video from our September 2025 members’ meeting, on building new product offerings and experiences with generative AI at Harvard Business Review and Harvard Business School.
Unlocking Growth in Uncertain Times: How Growth Innovation Drives Transformation
This webcast features Chris Townsend of Wellspring discussing how a growth innovation methodology helps companies not only adapt, but thrive.
From Intel’s Trenches: How to Shield Your Innovation from Corporate Antibodies
Corporate innovation often faces its greatest threat not from external competition, but from internal “antibodies” that systematically reject transformational ideas. In this webcast replay, seasoned innovation leaders share hard-won insights from over 15 years leading Intel’s new business incubator.
Designing for Disruption: Build Winning Business Models in an AI-Enabled World
Generative AI has dramatically lowered the cost—and time—of launching new products. In this new landscape, innovation teams are no longer just building faster; they’re operating in a world where speed is table stakes. The real differentiator? Context.
5 Ways to Prove the ROI of Corporate Innovation (And Secure Leadership Buy-In)
This webcast features Jennifer Dunn of HYPE Innovation and Caitlin Lawrence of Birla Carbon, a manufacturing leader renowned for its world-class innovation program, discussing proven strategies that translate your innovation efforts into tangible business value.
Spotify and Grammy Execs on AI and the Future of Music
Can “awesomeness” be part of a business case? Ziad Sultan of Spotify makes the case in this session from Impact 2024.
CarMax CIO on Shocking the System, Engaging the C-Suite, and More
CarMax’s CIO on moving from a project mindset to a product mindset, engaging the C-suite, and empowering teams with clear goals. Video from our 2024 Impact conference.
Target’s Chief Information and Product Officer on ‘the Most Transformative Period in Applied AI’
Target’s Chief Digital and Product Officer, Prat Vemana, joined InnoLead on stage at our Impact 2024 conference last October. Among the topics he discussed with InnoLead co-founder Scott Cohen: To watch highlights from the session, click “play” above. Our next Impact conference is coming up this Oct 20th-22nd, 2025 in Boston, MA.
H&M Innovation Chief on Scaling Experiments, AI, Emerging Trends
Our July 2025 members’ meeting featured Jo Hickson, Director of Innovation at Stockholm-based retailer H&M Group, and the former head of Tesco Labs. Video and notes inside…
Building Autonomous Innovation Engines
As part of our recent AI Build Day Event, on June 12th in Cambridge, Mass., we invited speakers to kick off the day with lightning talks about where AI is delivering value today — and how it will evolve from here. This talk by Matt Stewart of Disruptive Edge and Vincent Atallah of Aucctus explores how artificial intelligence can transform innovation within large organizations.
How to Fail Fastest within the ‘Messy Middle’ of the Innovation Process
This webcast features David Matheson and Doug Williams of SmartOrg, Inc. discussing the “messy middle” of the innovation process — and sharing a case study about how to make it through.
Leveraging Internal & External Data for Agentic AI Use Cases
One of the featured speakers at our 2025 “AI Build Day” event was Abhi Yadav, co-founder of AI Innovators Community. He focused on the challenge of having good data for agentic AI systems to access, otherwise AI can’t deliver good insights and results. We’ve got slides and video from his talk…
Wayfair: Elevating the Customer Experience with AI
One of the featured speakers at our 2025 “AI Build Day” event was Matt Herman of the e-commerce site Wayfair, who talked about the four key areas where Wayfair is applying AI to improve the customer experience. Includes video of his talk.
5 Things to Know About AI in June 2025
One of the opening speakers at our 2025 “AI Build Day” event was Jen Stave, the Chief Operator at Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute. Video of her talk is available to InnoLead members, as are the slides in PPT form.
Operate Like a Venture Capitalist: A Better Approach to Corporate Innovation
This webcast explores how how leading organizations can unlock growth by applying VC principles to their innovation strategy. Featuring Jonathan Livescault of ITONICS and Henry Deshays of Newfund.
How ICL is Constantly Reinventing Innovation Management to Drive Incredible Results
his webcast offers a behind-the-scenes look at how ICL, one of the leading global manufacturers of speciality minerals and fertilizers, is redefining innovation management through its groundbreaking Business Innovation for Growth (BIG) program.
Better GenAI Prompting, No Matter What Platform You Use
Replay of our May 2025 members’ meeting, featuring Curtis Michelson focusing on how to enhance prompt effectiveness and apply metaprompting.
AI’s New Frontier: How Digital Co-Workers are Shaping the Future of Innovation
This webcast replay features Kofi Gyasi of NotedSource and Dr. Anand Rao of Carnegie Mellon University discussing how Hybrid AI is redefining innovation.
Market Intelligence Briefing: H1 2025
Alex Slawsby delivers a March 2025 market intelligence briefing, with input from Allison Collings of NRG and Daniel Eckman from Yum Brands, as well as InnoLead co-founder and membership liaison Scott Cohen.
How U.S. Bank Turns Disruption into a Competitive Edge
Disruption is no longer a future threat, but a present reality. In this webcast, Andrew Cantrell, Vice President of Applied Foresights at U.S. Bank, shares how his team filters signal from noise to anticipate change before it arrives. Alongside Greg Hackenberg of Speeda Edge, Cantrell reveals how structured foresight, innovation infrastructure, and timely IP strategy help U.S. Bank turn emerging trends into measurable advantage.
Innovation’s Arc: What’s Timeless, What’s Changed, and What We Still Get Wrong
Innovation isn’t just about the next big thing — it’s about knowing when to hunt for the new and when to harvest what works. In this recent webcast, Trevor Anulewicz, Vice President, Strategy, Launch by NTT DATA, unpacks the timeless elements of innovation, from attracting creative minds to navigating the risk that comes with change.
Avoid the ‘Doom Loop’ and Create More Predictable Winners
How can innovators beat the odds and create more winners? Stuart Jackson and Ilya Trakhtenberg, co-authors of Predictable Winners, share strategies to improve success rates, avoid pitfalls, and manage uncertainty in this replay of our April 2025 members-only meeting.
Innovating Beyond Products
This webcast explores the ways that companies are redefining customer relationships by focusing on collaborative innovation, rather than just selling. Featuring leaders from Dow Inc. and Innoisight.

















































