Tim helps large companies overcome internal hurdles to ignite externally sourced open innovation and technology acquisition, and facilitate technology transfer deals.

He spends significant time delivering a wide range of IP and open innovation consulting services to clients, from open innovation system diagnostics to detailed technology and technology need evaluations to deal-assessment and execution.

In addition to hands-on experience, Tim has an educational background in the IP industry including a Masters Thesis which recommended improved licensing strategies for technology licensing out of universities.

Read Tim's ebook Unlocking Impact from Open Innovation here

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Paul Hobcraft is a globally recognized expert in business ecosystem innovation and design, ranked among the top 50 global thinkers in Ecosystems and Renewable Energies. With extensive international experience spanning Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Africa, Paul helps organizations navigate the complexities of ecosystem-driven innovation and unlock new growth opportunities.

Drawing from his hands-on experience leading global businesses across consumer goods, specialty chemicals, and industrial products, Paul now serves as a strategic advisor helping companies harness the power of business ecosystems, collaborative innovation, and co-creation. His practical approach combines deep ecosystem expertise with real-world business savvy, enabling organizations to stay ahead in rapidly evolving markets.

Based on his 14 years in Asia and leadership roles across multiple continents, Paul brings unique cross-cultural insights to help businesses design and implement successful ecosystem strategies. As a "transition to business ecosystems and innovation advocate," he guides organizations through the challenges of ecosystem adoption while fostering sustainable innovation and growth.

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Mike Todasco spends his days thinking about how AI will change how we create
Using generative tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and the ever-growing slate.
He used to work at PayPal, focused on innovation 
Where he evangelized creativity to employees of every nation.
At PayPal he also had many roles in the field of product 
From management to marketing to launch, which was a bit chaotic.
Previously, he founded a company, Sketch Maven 
Where long start-up nights turned his appearance to unshaven.
Prior to his career in tech, he was in finance and accounting you see
Starting his career at the company with a meatball logo, GE.
He has an MBA from Berkeley and a BS from Illinois 
And occasionally teaches leadership to mature girls and boys.
Mike has also been granted over 100 US utility patents.
And if you don't like his rhymes, you're on his list of enemy combatants.
Overall Mike tries to be a very helpful guy,
And while he uses the tools, he did not write this with AI

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Called ‘The Reinvention Guru’ (In Ventures magazine) and ‘The Queen of Reinvention’ (TEDx Navasink), Dr. Nadya Zhexembayeva is a business owner, educator, speaker and author -- specializing in reinvention.

 Nadya has helped such organizations as The Coca-Cola Company, ENRC PLC, IBM, CISCO, Erste Bank, Henkel, Knauf Insulation, Vienna Insurance Group and many others to reinvent their products, processes, and leadership practices.

 She served as the Coca-Cola Chaired Professor of Sustainable Development at IEDC- Bled School of Management, an executive education center based in the Slovene Alps, where she continues to teach courses in leadership, strategy, change management, design thinking, and sustainability. In addition to IEDC, Nadya has taught in other business schools, including CEDEP-INSEAD (France), Case Western Reserve (USA), and IPADE Business School (Mexico).

 As a speaker, Nadya has shared her insights with audiences worldwide through keynotes, panel presentations, and workshops. She has delivered three TEDx talks in Austria, Slovenia and the US. Over 100,000+ professionals saw Nadya speak publicly.

 As an author, Nadya has written two books (“Embedded Sustainability: The Next Big Competitive Advantage” in 2011 and “Overfished Ocean Strategy: Powering Up Innovation for a Resource-Deprived World” in 2014) and contributed to five others. In an effort to reinvent corporate approaches to sustainability strategy, Nadya and her co-author Chris Laszlo coined the concept ‘embedded sustainability’, which was virtually non-existent when they started in 2009. Today, it produces 25+ million Google search results and has become a staple for corporate sustainability efforts.

Learn more about how Wazoku's Total Innovation platform supports businesses in driving sustainable, transformative change at Wazoku. 

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Gijs van Wulfen (1960, based in Greece of Dutch origin) is a well-known global authority and trusted advisor on innovation, inspiring speaker, author of three innovation bestsellers, one of the top ten worldwide innovation bloggers, and a LinkedIn Influencer with 325.000+ followers.

He is very driven to jump start innovation, because organisations struggle with the start of innovation in their day-to-day hectic business. He is a business economist with a master’s in management consultancy. During his career of thirty years, Gijs has worked as a fast-moving consumer goods marketer, a boardroom consultant, a large group facilitator and as a keynote speaker. Through his informal personal style, infectious enthusiasm and persuasiveness he gets people to move beyond their borders to make their organization innovative again.

Gijs is also the author of the innovation bestseller “The Innovation Expedition”, which has been published in English, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Dutch, Chinese and Japanese. Gijs furthermore founded the FORTH innovation method, which provides structure to the chaotic start of innovation, while still fostering creative thinking. The FORTH method helps businesses to generate well-constructed new product, service, and business model concepts. To date the FORTH innovation method has been implement in 100+ businesses in Asia, Europe, Africa and North – and South America.

Gijs van Wulfen is renowned for his structured approach to initiating innovation, notably through his FORTH innovation method. Wazoku offers resources that align with his methodologies, focusing on structured innovation processes and fostering a culture of innovation.

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The 8 Pillars of a Successful Innovation Strategy

This whitepaper outlines key components essential for a robust innovation strategy, emphasizing the importance of structured processes and clear objectives—principles central to the FORTH method.

Ian is the Innovation Lead at Expedition Engineering. Building on his networking skills and interest in new technologies Ian is working to connect people and teams to deliver amazing outcomes for our clients. Ian's primary focus at the moment is developing ways to accelerate the scale up and adoption of innovations as we aim for net zero carbon.
 
 Ian’s experience in the Water sector focused on project delivery on water company framework contracts in the UK. Through building and leading network modelling teams Ian has worked with all major UK water service providers.

Ian is Convener for the Water Innovator Alliance a community acting as a hub and network for innovators, startups, scaleups and new to the water sector organisations to meet, share idea, challenges and opportunities.

 👉 Discover past innovations and approaches in the UK Water Sector

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Tom Goodwin is a writer, speaker and advertising and media provocateur and consultant. He has been voted a top 10 voice in Marketing by LinkedIn, one of 30 people to follow on Twitter by Business Insider, and a 'must follow' by Fast Company. An industry commentator on the future of marketing and business, he is a columnist for TechCrunch and Forbes and frequent contributor to The Guardian, GQ, Ad Age, Wired, Ad Week, Inc, MediaPost & Digiday. He is based between London, England, and New York City in the United States.

He is author of Digital Darwinism which shines a light on the future by exploring technology, society and lessons from the past so you can understand how to adapt, what to embrace and what to ignore. Tom Goodwin proves that assumptions the business world has previously made about "digital" are wrong: incremental change isn't good enough, adding technology at the edges won't work and digital isn't a thing - it's everything. If you want your organization to succeed in the post-digital age, you need to be enlightened by Digital Darwinism.

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Greg Satell is the Co-Founder of  ChangeOS, a transformation and change advisory. He is an international keynote speaker and bestselling author of Cascades: How to Create a Movement that Drives Transformational Changeand Mapping Innovation. His work has appeared in top publications like Harvard Business Review and Forbes.

As a Lecturer at Wharton, entrepreneur, and global executive, Greg helps organizations overcome resistance to change. He is recognized as a top innovation blogger and a leading digital transformation influencer. 

You can find Greg’s blog at www.DigitalTonto.com, check out his LinkedIn profile

For more insights into fostering innovation and transformation within organizations, check out this report on the importance of systems thinking in corporate innovation. 

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Runar is CEO at YunoJuno, one of the most impactful companies to come out of the UK in recent years. Runar was previously the CEO of Depop (sold to Etsy for $1.6bn), scaling the company through multiple funding rounds from early stage startup to market dominance in the UK and successful expansion into US with millions of users. 

Prior to Depop, Runar was part of the founding team that built mobile social network ZYB and successfully sold it to Vodafone Group where he went on to hold several leadership positions including the group’s Global Head of Product. Runar enjoys building and expanding community-driven companies that drive positive change. At YunoJuno he is championing flexibility and empowerment as the future of work.

If you're inspired by the insights on innovation and scaling shared in this podcast, discover how Wazoku helps organizations turn ideas into action. Learn more about the importance of systems thinking in corporate innovation by visiting this resource, and see how Wazoku supports businesses in building vibrant innovation ecosystems.

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Balaji is a Product, P&L and Innovation leader with extensive experience ideating, incubating, developing customer-centric products and operating innovative product businesses. Deep industry expertise in Life Sciences, Healthcare, Innovation, Future of Work and Contingent Workforce. Currently teach product innovation and intrapreneurship at Harvard and Stanford.
 
 His work has been recognized in a series of Harvard Business School case studies focused on helping executives build non-traditional businesses within large companies. He frequently teach seasoned professionals to sophomores at Harvard, Stanford, Wharton among others on how to think about this process while maintaining personal identity and a sense of agency in the process.
 
Additionally, Balaji supports his wife, Meghna, as she starts her own company (Butterfly Voyage), tries to load the dishwasher properly (good luck wine glasses), and builds insanely awesome Legos with his daughter!

Balaji's expertise aligns with Wazoku's work in the healthcare and life sciences sector, where innovative thinking and customer-centric approaches are essential. Wazoku has supported organizations in this space by helping them leverage innovation to address complex challenges, enhance patient care, and streamline operations. To learn more about how Wazoku has helped drive innovation and growth in the health and life sciences sector, visit this page on Wazoku's website. 

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