The future is looking bright with new technologies and innovative ideas allowing for smarter and not harder work. As corporations shift gears to stay aligned with changes, small and large forward-thinking organizations are making disruptions. Executive Director & CEO, Anthony Mills, shares his thoughts on the importance of getting the proper training and certifications to create a culture and environment that nurtures + sustains innovative ideas to ultimately magnify an organizations success and increase the positive impact they have on the world.

* – How to drive an effective corporate innovation program* – The different stages & phases of innovation* – Bringing human and machine parts together* – The learning ‘sandbox’* – The three-horizon concept* – Why trend timing is important* – How small companies disrupt* – The benefits of partnering with disruptors* – The importance of certifications* – Lead by casting a vision

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Derek: (03:42)We’re super excited to speak with you and welcome to the show. Thanks for joining us. And maybe with that, tell us a little bit about your personal experience with reaching for and contributing to innovation and how does this shape your career?Anthony: (03:55)Yeah, absolutely. You know, I came up from the background of product development and product innovation, leading a product innovation inside of businesses at various levels up to an executive level. So I’ve led a lot of different teams and pursuing new product innovation and new business innovation. And that, that has sort of led me on the journey of, of pursuing innovation very broadly. And, and now I’m running the global innovation Institute, which is a certifying and accreditation and membership organization. And we are, you know, our mission is to be out there really helping individuals learn innovation, how to drive innovation in an applied and practical way in business and to get them certified and up to speed on that. So that’s, that’s our mission. You know, we’re living that out working through a number of partnerships around the world, some trainers and consulting firms to drive a program around business innovation.Derek: (04:56)Yeah, it sounds really interesting. I’d love to hear a little bit more specifics around how that sort of occasion works and the process that you take an organization through or evaluate them on.Anthony: (05:07)Absolutely. You know for an organization as a whole to really drive an effect of what we call a corporate innovation program, where the, the goal is to produce actually a, a pipeline and ongoing pipeline of sustainable innovation. In order for them to do that, they really have to architect a comprehensive program and there’s, there’s six main fundamentals to the program. There’s the foundation which involves leadership and sponsorship and the culture, the environment and the philosophy and the val...