Innovation in Action
Claim This Podcastby Vaughan Broderick
Podcast Overview
<p><b>Innovation in Action </b>explores how people turn ideas into impact.</p><p></p><p>Join design thinking and innovation strategist, educator, and co-author of Innovation in Action book <b>Vaughan Broderick</b> as he sits down with entrepreneurs, leaders, and change-makers to unpack the mindsets, methods, and messy realities of innovation. Each episode unlocks curiosity, creativity and clarity in any organisation.</p><p><br />From design thinking and systems change to business strategy and behavioural insights, you’ll hear practical stories and tools that help you create change that sticks.</p><p></p><p>If you want to implement human-centred innovation, you’re in the right place.</p><p></p><p>Get your copy of Innovation in Action <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://innovationinactionbook.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>Work with <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://vaughanbroderick.com/" target="_blank">Vaughan</a>.</p><p>Follow Vaughan:</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaughanbroderick/" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/@VaughanBroderick" target="_blank">YouTube</a></p>
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July 7, 2026
You Don't Have to Build the Thing | Matt Scott
<p>Matt Scott has spent his career translating chaos into direction — first as an audio engineer and music producer for 18 years, then as a futures thinker and innovation lead working across agritech, IoT, and energy. <br /><br />After an MBA at the University of Canterbury sent him looking for a new calling, Matt built a career helping large organisations do the thing most of them are worst at: turning good ideas into things that actually ship. He's currently innovation lead inside a major New Zealand state-owned enterprise of 1,800 people, where he's spent the last two years running discovery on projects - one of which turned into a full-time role he now leads.<br /><br />In this conversation, Vaughan and Matt get into why futures thinking beats planning, why "building the thing" is often the easiest part of innovation (and stakeholder buy-in the hardest), and why every project needs a different mix of tools rather than a five-step formula. Matt also tells the story of Surf Locker - a Christchurch surfboard rental startup that started as a van, some old boards, and a hand-written sign - and explains why he left 18 years of music industry experience off his CV before realising it was actually his biggest asset.<br /><br />Takeaways:<br /><br />- Why "futures thinking" beats traditional forecasting — exploring many possible futures instead of predicting one, then working backwards to the actions that get you there<br />- The toolbox mindset: why there's no five-step formula for innovation, and why the right tool depends entirely on the job<br />- Matt's stakeholder engagement framework — mapping influence vs. interest to know exactly who to collaborate with, inform, or manage<br />- Why building the thing is the easy part — and stakeholder buy-in is where most large-org innovation actually dies<br />- The Surf Locker story: how a van, some old boards, and a hardware-store padlock tested a business idea before a dollar was spent on the "real" product<br />- Why Matt runs one-week sprints on early-stage projects, reassessing the biggest risk every Monday and defining success by Friday<br />- Why ideation and delivery are separate muscles <br />Matt's single piece of advice for anyone trying to innovate inside an organisation<br /><br />If you enjoyed this episode, make sure to subscribe for more conversations with the people turning innovation into action.<br /><br />Connect with Matt: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewblairscott/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewblairscott/</a><br /><br />LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaughanbroderick/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaughanbroderick/</a><br />X: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://x.com/theVBroderick" target="_blank">https://x.com/theVBroderick</a><br />Website: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://vaughanbroderick.com/" target="_blank">https://vaughanbroderick.com/</a><br />Get Innovation in Action book: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://innovationinactionbook.com/" target="_blank">https://innovationinactionbook.com/</a><br /><br />#FuturesThinking #Innovation #DesignThinking #StakeholderEngagement #Agritech #InnovationLeadership #ExpertInnovators #InnovationInAction #ChangeManagement</p>
June 22, 2026
How Script Sense Used Design to Disrupt
<p>In this conversation, Kieran and Puneet - co-founders of ScriptSense, share the behind-the-scenes story of how they and third co-founder Rijul Gupta built a product that's reshaping how pharmacy works in New Zealand and the world.<br /><br />Puneet came from pharmacy. Kieran came from hospitality and hotel tech. Neither had built a health tech company before. What they did have was a clear-eyed view of a broken industry, a willingness to sit in pharmacies with a notepad and just watch, and the grit to spend three years chasing a single enterprise customer who finally took their call.<br /><br />We get into what it really looks like to apply human-centred design in a heavily regulated industry and why "minimum viable product" means something very different when your product affects patient health. <br /><br />We also dig into the trade show demo that changed everything, the night Puneet's pharmacist instincts revealed a hidden process Kieran had never seen, and why removing the keyboard from pharmacy might be the most important thing ScriptSense ever does.<br /><br />Takeaways<br />- Why they deliberately avoided rushing to a solution — and how months of observation-only fieldwork shaped the entire product direction<br />- How a prototype that connected to nothing turned a trade show into a product validation session<br />- Why "minimum viable product" in health tech is a contradiction in terms and how ScriptSense navigated a 12-month build to first installation<br />- The Dropbox vs Instagram decision every startup faces and why they started out wanting to be one and had to become the other<br />- How a founding team with three completely different lenses (pharmacist, commercial operator, engineer) meant they could speak the right language to every stakeholder<br />- Why their biggest competitive advantage wasn't the tech — it was entering a one-vendor market with zero customer relationships to protect<br /><br />If you enjoyed this episode, please like and subscribe, share it with your friends, and leave a review. I read every single one.<br /><br />ScriptSense website: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://scriptsense.co.nz/" target="_blank">https://scriptsense.co.nz/</a><br />Puneet on LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/puneet-saini-4403a6b8/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/puneet-saini-4403a6b8/</a><br />Kieran on LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kieran-erasmuson/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/kieran-erasmuson/</a><br /><br />LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaughanbroderick/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaughanbroderick/</a><br />X: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://x.com/theVBroderick" target="_blank">https://x.com/theVBroderick</a><br />Website: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://vaughanbroderick.com/" target="_blank">https://vaughanbroderick.com/</a><br />Get Innovation in Action book:<a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://innovationinactionbook.com/" target="_blank">https://innovationinactionbook.com/</a><br /><br />#healthtech #startupjourney #pharmacyinnovation #humancentreddesign #designthinking #productdiscovery #startupnz #entrepreneurship #innovation</p>
June 14, 2026
How Play Unlocks Creative Strategy | Azeem Saheer
<p>Azeem Saheer is a human capital specialist, facilitator, leadership coach, and podcaster with 17 years of experience helping organisations unlock human potential. <br /><br />A PCC-level ICF coach and emotional intelligence and emotional culture practitioner, Azeem uses LEGO Serious Play as his primary tool for transforming how teams think together, break down silos, and surface ideas that traditional workshops leave buried.<br /><br />In this conversation, we explore why the problem in most organisations isn't a lack of ideas - it's a lack of stories and meaning that connect. <br /><br />Azeem breaks down the neuroscience behind building with your hands, why directing questions at a model (rather than the person who built it) removes ego from strategy conversations entirely, and how asking a team to break the model they've just built is the most important step of all.<br /><br />We also get into two case studies that stick: a supply chain team at Sri Lanka's largest food and beverage company who discovered that they had no idea what their colleagues in other departments were achieving or struggling with, and an ice cream R&D team, labelled by management as non-innovators, who produced ideas for effervescent flavour tablets and QR-coded shelf-life tracking the moment they were given the right environment to think freely.<br /><br />You'll take away:<br /><br />- Why your hands are directly wired to the largest part of your brain's cortex and how LEGO Serious Play exploits that connection to unlock ideas people didn't know they had<br />- The simple shift that transforms a defensive strategy session into an open one: direct your questions at the model, not the person<br />- How placing team models on a single table can expose silo thinking, duplicated effort, and misalignment in a single session<br />- Why the problem is almost never the people and almost always the environment you've given them to think in<br />- The five-step LEGO Serious Play facilitation process<br />- How Azeem uses AI to pressure-test his challenge questions before he walks into the room<br /><br />If you enjoyed this episode, please like, subscribe, and leave a review — it helps us reach more people who are serious about making innovation stick.<br /><br />Connect with Azeem:<br />LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/m-azeem-saheer-pcc-837b3759/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/m-azeem-saheer-pcc-837b3759/</a><br />Podcast: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/ei-cafe-with-azeem/id1540856792" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/ei-cafe-with-azeem/id1540856792</a><br /><br />Connect with Vaughan:<br />LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaughanbroderick/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaughanbroderick/</a><br />X: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://x.com/theVBroderick" target="_blank">https://x.com/theVBroderick</a><br />Website: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://vaughanbroderick.com/" target="_blank">https://vaughanbroderick.com/</a><br />Book: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://innovationinactionbook.com/" target="_blank">https://innovationinactionbook.com/</a><br /><br />#LEGOSeriousPlay #Innovation #DesignThinking #Facilitation #Leadership #HumanCentredInnovation #ExpertInnovators #CreativeThinking #StrategyDesign #EmotionalIntelligence #TeamBuilding #OrganisationalCulture #PlayAtWork #FacilitationTools #ChangeManagement</p>
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<p><b>Innovation in Action </b>explores how people turn ideas into impact.</p><p></p><p>Join design thinking and innovation strategist, educator, and co-author of Innovation in Action book <b>Vaughan Broderick</b> as he sits down with entrepreneurs, leaders, and change-makers to unpack the mindsets, methods, and messy realities of innovation. Each episode unlocks curiosity, creativity and clarity in any organisation.</p><p><br />From design thinking and systems change to business strategy and behavioural insights, you’ll hear practical stories and tools that help you create change that sticks.</p><p></p><p>If you want to implement human-centred innovation, you’re in the right place.</p><p></p><p>Get your copy of Innovation in Action <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://innovationinactionbook.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p>Work with <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://vaughanbroderick.com/" target="_blank">Vaughan</a>.</p><p>Follow Vaughan:</p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaughanbroderick/" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a></p><p><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/@VaughanBroderick" target="_blank">YouTube</a></p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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