Steve Liguori, a global thought leader on corporate innovation and former Executive Director of Global Innovation at GE, created the Corporate Entrepreneur Community with Lean Startup founder, Eric Ries. In this new podcast, Steve speaks with the real change-agents at leading companies including HP, P&G, Moody's, and Intercorp to get the pulse on what they are really doing, today, to navigate the new world. From the future of work to reprioritising their innovation portfolios, we’ll find out how these long-time industry leaders and their intrapreneurs are driving growth during disruption, the pandemic, and an uncertain future.
The inevitability of disruption, and how one of the world’s tech giants learned to harness it
Marvin Gross is head of New Business Incubations at Hewlett Packard, and on his journey to his current position, he’s served in many different roles and divisions at the global tech giant. His experience has shown him that disruption is almost inevitable; he shares his insight into how he harnessed its power, and combined it with personal learnings to forge an enviable reputation as one of the pioneers of innovation.
11 Mar 2021
How disruption has shaped the career of a boundary-breaking innovator
Jean Vernor is Head of the US Incubator at Munich Re. She is a veteran of disruption - you could argue her whole career has been built on it! On her journey from the automotive sector, through to fashion, retail and more, Jean has learned valuable lessons on how to not only survive, but thrive in the kind of ever-evolving workspace in which we find ourselves during the pandemic.
10 Mar 2021
Innovation from the top down at Aditya Birla, a $50B global conglomerate
Prakash Nedungadi is the Group Head for Customer Insights and Brand Development at Aditya Birla. He joins Steve and Akiva for a discussion about corporate innovation, the future of work, and how their global customers have recognised benefits from the new virtual world. Prakash shares how positioning the customer at the centre of all key decisions has been embraced by Aditya Birla’s 120,000 employees, including the CEO, who has designated his chair in the corporate boardroom to the “Bosstomer”.
9 Mar 2021
The shift from leading a F500 corporate innovation program to becoming the CEO of one of your portfolio companies
Scott Cooper was the global VP of Innovation at MolsonCoors in Denver.
After a corporate-wide restructuring, he found his new role as the president and CEO of Truss Beverages, a cannabis-infused beverage company that was a joint venture led by his MolsonCoors innovation team and Canadian company Hexo. Join Scott, Steve, and Akiva as they talk about career pivots, corporate innovation, and leading a big co backed startup - which also happens to be in a highly regulated, and at times controversial, new industry.
8 Mar 2021
How the CIO at Intercorp Created a Disruption-Proof Strategy Framework
Join Steve in a conversation with Hernan Carranza, Chief Innovation Officer, Grupo Intercorp, and Managing Director, La Victoria Lab. We’ll learn how Hernan created the “now, near, far” pandemic strategy to guide this mission-driven conglomerate of 30+ companies through the disruption caused by Covid. Hernan shares how a company-wide effort to develop new leadership “muscle” is defining how they engage with their 80,000+ employees, customers, and partners with empathy.
7 Mar 2021
Learn How P&G’s Leadership are Embracing Innovation to Pivot During the Disruption
Steve speaks with Carl Fraik from P&G Ventures (P&G’s Startup Studio). We learn how P&G’s senior leadership, and their corporate intrapreneurs, are guiding this 180+ year-old company by leveraging reputation, scale and technology, and through empathy for their employees, to pivot during the Covid disruption. Carl will also share how P&G has embraced innovation, and adaptability as a critical skill to address the “new” where and how we’ll work post pandemic.
6 Mar 2021
How Moody's Analytics Brings Innovation and Leadership to Help Customers
Steve talks with Keith Berry, Executive Director/Moody's Analytics Accelerator, about how disruption forced Moody’s from just a few to over 11,000 employees working remotely in matter of days. Through the use of technologies, empathy for their employees and a commitment to their intrapreneurs, they are continuing to drive growth across this 100+ year old company, We learn from Keith how leadership supported a new way of working, resulting in a pivot to solve new customer problems, including a new product that verifies suppliers for hospitals sourcing personal protective equipment.
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