Featuring guests from across the innovation ecosystem, the podcast extends our already unique perspective into a more conversational space. Episodes delve into the realities of today’s innovation landscape, seeking out insights, tales, and tips from the folks who are deep in the trenches. We host conversations with startup founders, corporate innovators, and venture builders about: • What does innovation mean to you? • How have you seen orgs structure (or strangle) innovation teams¥ • Dealing with the clash between corporate scale and startup speed • How to spot disruption before it hits • Does tech = innovation. (We have opinions...)
Innovate, Disrupt, or Die | How Mike Todasco Built Innovation Into Paypal
The conversation with Mike Tedasko delves into the journey of innovation, the role of augmented reality at PayPal, defining and encouraging innovation, cultivating a culture of innovation, establishing innovation capability, and the impact of innovatio...
9 Apr 2026
Innovate, Disrupt, or Die: Why Kate Kalcevich Advocates for Accessibility
Kate Kalcevich discusses her evolution into an innovation role at Fable and the company's service offerings. She also shares insights on Fable's innovation strategy, autonomy, culture of innovation, experimentation, gathering ideas, and outcomes. The conversation covers the topics of assistive technology, inclusive design, mainstream product adaptation, designing for the edges, brand loyalty, AI and technology challenges, and embedding accessibility in education and hiring. It emphasizes the importance of considering unique needs, driving brand loyalty through inclusion, and addressing challenges and opportunities in technology and education.
Takeaways
Innovation Role Evolution
Fable's Service Offerings Assistive technology encompasses hardware or software that enables people with disabilities to access the digital world.
Mainstream products and technologies are being adapted for accessibility, and vice versa, leading to a wider audience benefitting from inclusive design.
Designing for the edges, or the outliers with unique needs, leads to more robust and inclusive products and solutions.
Accessibility and inclusion can drive brand loyalty and appeal to a wider audience, including younger and older generations as well as busy individuals.
AI and technology have the potential to improve accessibility but also pose challenges related to statistical discrimination and exclusion.
Embedding accessibility into education and hiring individuals with accessibility knowledge can facilitate compliance and innovation in startups and businesses.
Chapters
00:00 Evolution into an Innovation Role
05:56 Innovation Strategy and Autonomy
13:08 Culture of Innovation and Experimentation
22:45 Assistive Technology and Inclusive Design
32:48 The Importance of Designing for the Edges
43:31 Embedding Accessibility in Education and Hiring
26 Mar 2026
Innovate, Disrupt, or Die | How Dr. David Fried Cultivates Fanatical Customers
Dr. David Fried discusses the concepts of continuous improvement and innovation, the culture of innovation, organizational behavior, practical application of continuous improvement, innovation metrics and frameworks, organizational ambidexterity, spin rate and innovation metrics, and the practical application of innovation theory. He also shares insights on overcoming analysis paralysis, failure testing and risk busters, innovation implementation and execution, innovation challenges and solutions, exemplary companies and innovation, innovation metrics and research, and Christensen's innovation theory. Dr. Fried emphasizes the importance of innovation count and continuous improvement, and the application of innovation theory in the real world.
Takeaways
Continuous improvement and innovation are complementary concepts that drive organizational growth and success.
Innovation metrics and frameworks, such as spin rate and innovation count, are essential for measuring the impact of innovation and continuous improvement.
Organizational ambidexterity, failure testing, and risk busters are key components of successful innovation and continuous improvement.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Background
05:56 Culture of Innovation
11:28 Innovation Metrics and Frameworks
17:23 Spin Rate and Innovation Metrics
23:07 Continuous Improvement and Innovation
28:23 Innovation and Spin Rate
33:36 Failure Testing and Risk Busters
39:03 Exemplary Companies and Innovation
44:41 Continuous Improvement vs. Innovation
51:27 Christensen's Innovation Theory
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Bri Brennan
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