The Heart of Innovation

Cross cultural efforts can be a minefield. Cliff's areas of geographic focus are mainly post colonial countries in Asia. As a white dude American, Cliff knows the pitfalls. What's surprising the how these challenges can become an innovation superpower via the intention of care and the skills of empathy and cognitive perspective taking.

Cliff is most passionate about helping teams and organizations through transfo...

Marco Ferrara is co-founder and SVP of Software Analytics at Form Energy, a company pioneering iron-air batteries to solve grid storage for renewable energy. (He is also the CIO - Chief Italian Officer.) He has a dazzling technical resume: a PhD in Nuclear engineering from MIT and another in Computer Science for good measure. Yet, he credits beauty and creativity as they key drivers in his entrepreneurial journey. Join us as we unp...

Today we get to talk to Meg Salter about how humans develop and how that can allow you to innovate at the core - who you are - and how that can enable creative and innovative action and how we can even use life's deepest pain to spur growth.

Meg Salter is an internationally experienced Executive Coach and Management Consultant.  and works with corporate, public sector and non-profit clients.

As an Integral Master Coach™, Meg sup...

Any innovation process needs to accommodate and even encourage diverse points of view and even divergent truths. This almost necessarily produces conflict. Are there practical, trainable ways of navigating this reality at both the individual and group levels to give us the peace of heart and mind to enter in this dance of complexity and ambiguity and create systems of wholecome innovation? YES!
Dr. Roxy Manning, is a clinical ...

Cheryl Strauss Einhorn is an award-winning  investigative reporter at New York Times and Foreign Policy Magazine, Barron’s who wanted to be sure she could navigate complexity and ambiguity in the high stakes world of finance with confidence and good conscience. To solve for this she innovated an evidence-based decision-making system that uniquely controls for and counters cognitive bias to expand knowledge while improving judgment ...

Irene Au has been building bridges between technology and creativity her whole life. From being the child of Chinese immigrants in South Carolina who wanted to study design and dance (but chose engineering) to being the voice of user centric design at tech companies who thought design was the result of complex calculations, she has developed a fascinating way of projecting her power and expertise in the world in the form of values ...

Cecily Mak has been wildly successful at the forefront of innovation and has had several careers: modeling, law, start-up executive and venture firm co-founder in the fields of music, publishing, mindfulness/wellbeing, and now crypto. However, her proudest and most difficult accomplishments are in developing clarity, vulnerability and presence.
We talk about the role of discomfort, love, family patterns and bathroom stall cocai...

The world of professional sports is undergoing massive innovation in how it deals with mental health and training in the context of high stakes performance. This innovation comes from a surprising combination of player and organization desire for long term value and meaning as well as the desire to succeed and win.  Josh Lifrak, former head of Mental Skills programs with the Chicago Cubs, tells us how human flourishing can happen i...

The Clash were musical and social innovators, so why is it surprising that their lyrics describe a very key aspect of creativity-  that you need to include stopping as part of the process of creation.
In this episode we explore this surprising and counteritive idea with Eric Antonow , one of the most effective and creative people I know. These days Eric an executive coach who works in technology. Before that he led early produ...

Entrepreneur Marquis Harmon shares his story of creating the world you want despite the imperfectness of the world. His story is a powerful one and he shares his superpower of shifting from Me to We that has powered his values, intentions, creativity and why using crypto can be a transformative social  force.  In addition, he shares how he uses this superpower to thrive despite challenges like family addiction, prison and systemic ...