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"I'm a big believer that innovation is not the result of some sort of inspired genius, right? It's not an innate talent but a process and a handful of repeatable activities that can be learned.”
Jacob Dutton
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
Key Links
Future Foundry https://www.future-foundry.io/
Co-founder Katy https://www.linkedin.com/in/katy-sephton-81451315/
Holy Grail https://www.britannica.com/topic/Grail
Museum of Failure: https://museumoffailure.com/
About our guest
Jacob Dutton (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobdutton/) is the Co-Founder & CEO of Future Foundry and the creator of the Velocity™ innovation method.
He's spent almost two decades helping companies like Hilton, NBC, Walgreens, HSBC, and Microsoft accelerate, de-risk, and systematise the discovery of over one hundred breakthrough businesses, products, and services.
His deep-rooted belief is that innovation is a learned skill, not an innate talent and that with the right people, processes and platforms - every corporation on the planet can innovate with more speed, focus and impact.
About our host
Our host, Chris Hudson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hudson-7464254/), is a Teacher, Experience Designer and Founder of business transformation coaching & consultancy Company Road (www.companyroad.co)
Chris considers himself incredibly fortunate to have worked with some of the world’s most ambitious and successful companies, including Google, Mercedes-Benz, Accenture (Fjord) and Dulux, to name a small few. He continues to teach with Academy Xi in CX, Product Management, Design Thinking and Service Design and mentors many business leaders internationally.
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“The company doesn't create the culture. If you hire great people, the culture will be created.”
Christian Stein
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
Key Links
Stone Owl https://stoneowlconsulting.com/
180 Amsterdam https://www.180amsterdam.com/
Sapiens book https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316095
Jerry Springer https://jerryspringertv.com/
About our guest
With over 25 years of global marketing communication experience, Christian (https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-stein-1430134/) specializes in developing transformative strategies for diverse brands and agencies across Western Europe, Russia, North America, China, Australia, and South Africa. His expertise spans B2C and B2B, encompassing luxury to mainstream sectors in areas such as cars, trucks, motorbikes, beer, spirits, luxury goods, technology, and financial services.
Christian is known for building strong partnerships with C-suite stakeholders, using creative thinking to unlock opportunities and achieve business growth. His leadership has consistently led to impactful creative outcomes, driving business results and earning numerous awards.
About our host
Our host, Chris Hudson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hudson-7464254/), is a Teacher, Experience Designer and Founder of business transformation coaching & consultancy Company Road (www.companyroad.co).
Chris considers himself incredibly fortunate to have worked with some of the world’s most ambitious and successful companies, including Google, Mercedes-Benz, Accenture (Fjord) and Dulux, to name a small few. He continues to teach with Academy Xi in CX, Product Management, Design Thinking and Service Design and mentors many business leaders internationally.
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"Mistakes are as valuable as the finely crafted ideas. There's something tangible in them that could often be elevated and be the main idea."
Alex Normanton
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
Key Links
Alex's website https://www.alexnormanton.com/
Reckitt https://reckitt.com/
DOPA https://www.thedopa.com/
Saatchi & Saatchi https://www.saatchi.com.au/
Clios https://clios.com/
Cannes Lions https://www.canneslions.com/
D&AD https://www.dandad.org/
MassiveMusic https://www.massivemusic.com/
About our guest
Alex Normanton (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexnormanton/) is Global Brand Experience Lead at Reckitt. In this role, Alex drives category growth by translating design into meaningful brand experiences and sustainable innovations.
Prior to this, Alex worked for some of the world’s leading agencies including Saatchi & Saatchi and Design Bridge. He’s directed the likes of Sony Music, Johnnie Walker and Mercedes-Benz, and been recognised by a number of awards such as the Clios, Cannes Lions, D&AD and the One Show.
A big advocate for the power of sonic branding, he believes that audio language should be considered by designers and marketers in the same way that visual and verbal language is. It’s no surprise then that he chose a podcast as the medium for his passion project, DOPA, which fuels conversations around creative wellness.
About our host
Our host, Chris Hudson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hudson-7464254/), is a Teacher, Experience Designer and Founder of business transformation coaching & consultancy Company Road (www.companyroad.co)
Chris considers himself incredibly fortunate to have worked with some of the world’s most ambitious and successful companies, including Google, Mercedes-Benz, Accenture (Fjord) and Dulux, to name a small few. He continues to teach with Academy Xi in CX, Product Management, Design Thinking and Service Design and mentors many business leaders internationally.
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"So I just thought, no. I don't accept the narrative around sobriety. I don't accept that drinkers are boring. I don't accept that people can't have fun without alcohol. I just don't accept any of these things."
Faye Lawrence
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
Faye’s journey to sobriety: Faye details her personal story from heavy-drinker to alcohol-free, including the barriers she faced, her turning point and the differences in her life since sobriety.
Workplace drinking culture and breaking the stigma of sobriety: Why a culture of alcohol is so prevalent within business and what we can do to establish a healthier, more inclusive social work culture
Techniques for sobriety: Key strategies for trying to work toward and navigate sobriety, including the all-or-nothing approach, getting curious about one's experiences with alcohol, focusing on gains, and regulating the nervous system.
Developing a growth mindset: How to become comfortable with discomfort, learn the power of the pause and take control over the decisions you make to see personal growth and self-discovery in your life
Unlocking productivity: Tips to step into greater levels of productivity and satisfaction at work rooted in understanding yourself and having power over your actions and decision-making
Key links
Episode 14 with Olly Lynch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtS9FcQCpZo&t=2872s
Untoxicated: https://www.untoxicated.com.au/
South by Southwest: https://www.sxsw.com/
Faye’s TedX Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJadFi0uJNA
Huberman Lab podcast: https://www.hubermanlab.com/podcast
Mirror Group Newspapers: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mirror-Group-Newspapers
Charles Bukowski: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bukowski
Yumi Steins podcast w/Faye: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/ladies-we-need-to-talk/sober-sex/102870152
About our guest
Having been a heavy but high functioning drinker since her teens, Faye Lawrence (https://www.linkedin.com/in/faye-lawrence-aus/) wound up in inpatient detox in 2017 after realising the party wasn’t any fun anymore. Determined not to let her sobriety ruin her social life she founded Untoxicated, now Australia’s largest alcohol-free social community.
She is a TEDx + SXSW speaker and has featured widely across media with a mission to normalise living with less or no alcohol in a culture that reveres it. Since her ADHD diagnosis in 2022, she’s been telling anyone who’ll listen about the strong link between ADHD and all types of addiction.
She’s proud to serve on the SMART Recovery Board and is a trained facilitator. And in true ADHD ‘portfolio career’ style, she also has extensive experience in marketing, communications, and engagement, predominantly in for purpose organisations.
About our host
Our host, Chris Hudson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hudson-7464254/), is a Teacher, Experience Designer and Founder of business transformation coaching & consultancy Company Road (www.companyroad.co)
Chris considers himself incredibly fortunate to have worked with some of the world’s most ambitious and successful companies, including Google, Mercedes-Benz, Accenture (Fjord) and Dulux, to name a small few. He continues to teach with Academy Xi in CX, Product Management, Design Thinking and Service Design and mentors many business leaders internationally.
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“It's easier to develop a business plan to literally sell shit than it is to develop a framework to implement new ideas, like a scientist.”
Dr. Agustin Chevez
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
Key links
Dr Agustin Chez’s TedX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMUjCFw-CtM
The Pilgrims Guide to the Workplace https://www.achevez.com/the-pilgrim-s-guide-to-the-workplace
Gitlab https://about.gitlab.com/
Forrest Gump running https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=187trX0mo1o
Learning from Las Vegas book https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262720069/learning-from-las-vegas/
About our guest
As an Architect and researcher, Dr Agustin Chevez (https://www.linkedin.com/in/agustin-chevez) has dedicated his career to understanding the notion of work and uncovering environments that best support our working lives.
Agustin’s interest in the relationship between people, space and technology saw him pursue a PhD on the evolution of workplace architecture as a consequence of technology development. His work has been presented at various international forums and publications. As a sought-after speaker, Agustin has delivered international keynotes and is a TEDx speaker. He has also contributed to workplace strategies in Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore.
In his latest publication, The Pilgrim’s Guide to the Workplace, Agustin revisits our assumptions about the way we use space to host the ever-evolving notion of work.
Agustin is the Workplace Research Lead at the Centre for the New Workforce at Swinburne University and an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Workplace Leadership at the University of Melbourne.
About our host
Our host, Chris Hudson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hudson-7464254/), is a Teacher, Experience Designer and Founder of business transformation coaching & consultancy Company Road (www.companyroad.co)
Chris considers himself incredibly fortunate to have worked with some of the world’s most ambitious and successful companies, including Google, Mercedes-Benz, Accenture (Fjord) and Dulux, to name a small few. He continues to teach with Academy Xi in CX, Product Management, Design Thinking and Service Design and mentors many business leaders internationally.
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“At the end of the day, it's about what is the goal or purpose both these people in the room are in for? If that is not aligned, everything else won’t make sense.”
Ishani Nigam
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
Key links
MyGigsters https://www.mygigsters.com.au/
Benjemen Elengovan https://newstateofmind.com.au/benjemen-elengovan-gig-worker-start-up-founder/
ThincLab Initiative by Uni of Adelaide https://www.adelaide.edu.au/thinclab/
My First Step Ever podcast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFnNw24cE1CuAj7DMjBEDDw
My First Step Ever Instagram https://www.instagram.com/myfirststepever_in/
About our guest
Ishani Nigam (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ishaninigam), originally from Mumbai, India, is a dynamic individual who passionately believes in seizing life's opportunities and nurturing one's inner calling. After completing her bachelor's degree, she ventured into the worlds of advertising, production, and project management before pursuing a master's degree at Unimelb in Melbourne, Australia.
Ishani's journey has been marked by both challenges and moments of inspiration. Her determination led her to create the "My First Step Ever" podcast, where she empowers young people to embrace conviction and cultivate action-oriented mindsets.
In addition to her podcasting endeavours, Ishani serves as a content creator and community outreach officer at MyGigsters, a leading FinTech start-up in Australia, dedicated to helping self-employed individuals achieve financial security.
Outside her professional life, Ishani is a trained Bollywood dancer and choreographer who has graced the stage with her performances. She's an avid adventurer, embracing activities like hiking and extreme sports, while also indulging in her love for dark chocolate. Ishani's diverse interests and commitment to personal growth make her a proud youth empowerment advocate.
About our host
Our host, Chris Hudson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hudson-7464254/), is a Teacher, Experience Designer and Founder of business transformation coaching & consultancy Company Road (www.companyroad.co)
Chris considers himself incredibly fortunate to have worked with some of the world’s most ambitious and successful companies, including Google, Mercedes-Benz, Accenture (Fjord) and Dulux, to name a small few. He continues to teach with Academy Xi in CX, Product Management, Design Thinking and Service Design and mentors many business leaders internationally.
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“Being technology agnostic is crucial. Don't assume that your playbook from one business will magically work at a different one. There's no one-size-fits-all approach.”
Charlie Carpinteri
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
Key links
Rolling Labs https://rollinglabs.com/
RedFlex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redflex_Holdings
Swinburne https://www.swinburne.edu.au/
Industry Based Learning https://www.swinburne.edu.au/study/courses/units/Industry-Based-Learning-HEA30005/local
Tesla https://www.tesla.com/en_au
About our guest
Charlie Carpinteri (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ccarpinteri/) has over 20 years of experience as a leader, an entrepreneur and a passionate technologist, which require creativity, collaboration, and lateral thinking. A strong and transparent communicator, data and insight decision making and driven by delivering an exceptional customer experience, Charlie enjoys working closely with customers to understand their perspectives and leverage a combination of existing and emerging technologies to meet their digital requirements.
Throughout Charlie’s career, he has worked with a combination of start-up, medium and large corporates and organisations, and has been known to challenge traditional processes and ways of thinking; actively driving cultural and technological advancements using innovative methods and tools. As a highly effective business leader, Charlie is adept at engaging and influencing across all levels of an organisation; working with customers, technology partners and cross-departmental teams to recommend and advise on best-practice solution delivery.
About our host
Our host, Chris Hudson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hudson-7464254/), is a Teacher, Experience Designer and Founder of business transformation coaching & consultancy Company Road (www.companyroad.co)
Chris considers himself incredibly fortunate to have worked with some of the world’s most ambitious and successful companies, including Google, Mercedes-Benz, Accenture (Fjord) and Dulux, to name a small few. He continues to teach with Academy Xi in CX, Product Management, Design Thinking and Service Design and mentors many business leaders internationally.
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“When you're looking at innovation and especially experimentation, the goal is to effectively fail. You really want to be able to push for failure for your ideas because it's the ones that don't fail that are the ones that you want to be able to push through.”
Tash Reidy
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
Key links
Funny Business Pod http://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/funny-business/id1508669714
PEXA https://www.pexa.com.au/
Exponentially https://www.exponentially.com/
Mike Dyson Podcast Episode https://youtu.be/zvlPDZaZqvw
Jane Curtain Podcast Episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O9zQyvsmvg&t=2258s
Alberto Savoia https://www.linkedin.com/in/albertosavoia
The Right IT book https://www.amazon.com.au/Right-Many-Ideas-Yours-Succeeds/dp/0062884654
Leslie Barry https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliebarry/
Pawel Huryn https://www.linkedin.com/in/pawel-huryn/
Dan Olsen https://www.linkedin.com/in/danolsen98/
About our guest
Natasha (Tash) Reidy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/natasha-reidy/) is an energetic innovation leader. Having executed over 200 experiments and saving over $7 million by stopping ideas, Natasha's love language is definitely experimentation!
With a laser focus on solving customer problems, she looks for opportunities to enhance customers' experience by uncovering the things they love - and the things they don't.
One of her favourite sayings is 'customers don't care about your business problems, they care about their problems' and sets about instilling customer empathy all along the innovation funnel to idea delivery - taking numerous teams on the journey.
About our host
Our host, Chris Hudson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hudson-7464254/), is a Teacher, Experience Designer and Founder of business transformation coaching & consultancy Company Road (www.companyroad.co)
Chris considers himself incredibly fortunate to have worked with some of the world’s most ambitious and successful companies, including Google, Mercedes-Benz, Accenture (Fjord) and Dulux, to name a small few. He continues to teach with Academy Xi in CX, Product Management, Design Thinking and Service Design and mentors many business leaders internationally.
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“It's about awareness; it breaks my brain and it breaks my mind, how often people just blindly move into stuff without that self-awareness of what it is that they're trying to achieve.”
Ben Prinsloo
In this episode you’ll hear about:
Key links
Pearson https://www.pearson.com/en-au/
International Women’s Day https://www.internationalwomensday.com/
D&I https://www.gartner.com/en/human-resources/glossary/diversity-and-inclusion-d-i-
Forced Fun https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/is-forced-fun-actually-fun-5797796/
About our guest
Ben Prinsloo is a passionate and strategic leader, primarily in customer experience and retention, having spent the last 7 years in the online education sector. Ben previously lead student engagement and retention at Pearson and Chisholm Online.
Within his numerous roles, Ben has successfully delivered key initiatives for business enhancement, optimization, and expansion, as well as developed new operating models to demonstrate improved cross-functional collaboration and performance.
About our host
Our host, Chris Hudson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hudson-7464254/), is a Teacher, Experience Designer and Founder of business transformation coaching & consultancy Company Road (www.companyroad.co).
Chris considers himself incredibly fortunate to have worked with some of the world’s most ambitious and successful companies, including Google, Mercedes-Benz, Accenture (Fjord) and Dulux, to name a small few. He continues to teach with Academy Xi in CX, Product Management, Design Thinking and Service Design and mentors many business leaders internationally.
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“I think we're at our least efficient when someone else is driving everything that we're doing. And that's a situation you can wind up in when you don't have the confidence to say, yes, I can actually do this.”
Brendan Donoghue
In this episode you’ll hear about:
Key Links
KRAs https://www.smartsheet.com/content/key-result-areas
The Twits - Roald Dahl https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31456.The_Twits
Wieden+ Kennedy https://www.wk.com/
Geelong Cats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geelong_Football_Club
The Art of Innovation - Tim Brown https://www.amazon.com.au/Change-Design-Transforms-Organizations-Innovation-ebook/dp/B002PEP4EG
UniSuper https://www.unisuper.com.au
About our guest
Brendan Donoghue (https://www.linkedin.com/in/btdonoghue/) is a Digital Executive, CX Thought Leader, Transformation Agent and ‘eternal optimist’. Brendan has worked at some of Australia’s biggest and most exciting organisations, with experience gained in telecommunications, superannuation and banking.
He has built and led some of the largest design teams and transformational digital programs in the country, including at the likes of Telstra, NAB and currently UniSuper, as Head of Digital & Customer Experience, delivering complex and innovative customer-centred experiences across the board.
About our host
Our host, Chris Hudson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-hudson-7464254/), is a Teacher, Experience Designer and Founder of business transformation coaching & consultancy Company Road (www.companyroad.co)
Chris considers himself incredibly fortunate to have worked with some of the world’s most ambitious and successful companies, including Google, Mercedes-Benz, Accenture (Fjord) and Dulux, to name a small few. He continues to teach with Academy Xi in CX, Product Management, Design Thinking and Service Design and mentors many business leaders internationally.
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For weekly updates and to hear about the latest episodes, please subscribe to The Company Road Podcast at https://companyroad.co/podcast/
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In this podcast we’ll be exploring what it takes to change a company. Taking the big steps, or the smaller steps in between.
This one’s for the intrapreneurs. You’ll be getting to know…