Tim Branham, aka Timothy Branham Mr. Branham has served as Chief  Strategy and Growth Officer for a healthcare services firm, Chief Technology Officer for a publicly traded automotive digital marketing company, and global CIO for a global information telecommunication services company. Through these experiences, he's had responsibility for hundreds of staff millions of dollars in P&L and was a key contributor to the company's bottom line.   

More about our guest:

Tim helped start the Branham Advisors to fill a critical gap in the marketplace for executive advisory services. He is also a veteran of the United States Army, having served as an Airborne Ranger and the third battalion at Fort Benning, Georgia. He's an instructor and senior member of the World Martial Arts Federation, as well as an avid golfer, rock climber, and self defense expert.

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Episode Guide:

0:00 - Intro

1:25 - What Is Innovation?

2:45 - First element: Profits

4:37 - Harvesting the profit: non-systemic

6:40 - Innovation: A label or a skill

7:17 - Second element: Measurable

8:34 - Digital Innovation: Process and Structure vs Mindset

10:39 - "Keeping Up with the Joneses"

13:44 - Chief Transformation Officer: selection and effect to innovation

14:59 - Current rapid changes: a smarter approach

16:53 - What IS NOT innovation

19:39 - Bolt on approach

23:13 - Tech Debt: a sunk cost?

26:42 - Advice to innovators
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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.

Marge Simmons, aka Virginia Margrete Lawson Simmons, is a retired Garrison Manpower Chief in the Resource Management Office of the US Army. She has led the Fort Rucker 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) program and is an active member of the Johns Chapel AME Church in Enterprise since 1975, serving in various ministry leadership capacities including Christian Education Director and Choir President. She is also the lovely mother and the greatest inspiration of our host, Jared.  

More about our guest:

Marge, the 7th of 13 children, considers her childhood home as the innovation headquarters with as many as 8 of the 10 living at home at the same time. She has worked her way to the top in the US Army despite all the setbacks as a woman-of-color during her time. She uses her experience and expertise as a former civil service worker and now an active member of her church and in music clubs to help guide her children and the people around her to use their God-given gifts and talents to make the world a better place

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Episode Guide:

1:42 - What Is Innovation?

2:33 - Defining "Need"

3:55 - How much is enough?

6:43 - Working in the Army: keep the staff, staffed

8:08 - Thinking through and making critical decisions

10:48 - Importance of motivation and recognition

11:13 - Familial ties, innovation, and prejudice: making up the foundation  

14:58 - Growing up with limited resources

18:56 - Switching and finding innovation

20:45 - Credit taking: Towards innovation and improvement

21:53 - Born and Raised in the South

22:37 - Staying true with the approach

25:00 - Overcoming the segregation of colors and triumphing over prejudices

30:15 - How work experience shapes your views

32:18 - Music and it's role in life

35:30 - Managers, Leaders, Directors: having balance

36:30 - Innovation in music: ad-libs

39:30 - Innovation cannot be scripted

40:25 - Overcoming fears and stage frights

42:56 - Being open to receiving ideas

46:30 - Advice to Innovators

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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.

Mary Ann Jentz, founder of MAJ Consulting, a company aiming to help organizations define and execute strategic goals with a culture-first approach shares how morality and intentionality work (and don't work) in the areas of innovation. 

More about our guest:

Mary Ann has over 15 years of experience, 10 years as a consultant, and prior to founding MAJ Consulting, she worked at Deloitte as a strategy and operations consultant and in supply chain at General Electric. She has an MBA from Goizueta Business School at Emory University and two bachelors' degrees in Chemical Engineering and Psychology from the University of Notre Dame. She lives in West Chester, Ohio with her husband, Mike, and shih tzu mix, Lulu.

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Episode Guide:

0:00 - Intro

1:21 - What is Innovation?

3:57 - What is so special about being intentional

6:57 - Day-to-day ratio: Intentionality and bias toward action

8:24 - Experience and communication down the pipeline

10:13 - Classical strategic planning process: 100-Zero

12:05 - Connectivity and alignment of thought

14:16 - Essence of the business MAJ Consulting

16:45 - Striking the balance mentally

19:33 - Ways to think and rethink intentionality

21:08 - What isn't innovation?

22:17 - Morality: discussion on gene splicing

23:53 - Assumption of morality in social media

26:30 - Detangling from societal structure

28:27 - Web 3 and blockchain vs Web 2 platforms

30:25 - Uber vs Taxis

32:08 - Advice for innovators

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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.

Todd Khozein is the founder of the Founder and Co-CEO of SecondMuse, an impact and innovation company building resilient economies by supporting entrepreneurs and the ecosystems around them.

More about our guest:

The company is a manifestation of Todd’s impassioned belief that economic and social systems can be built inclusively and not at the expense of human dignity and the health of the planet. To test his theories and gain a deeper understanding of how to build and execute better systems, Todd earned a medical degree from the University of New Mexico, spent years developing a range of businesses, and co-founded SecondMuse in 2008. He’s proud to serve on the Board of Directors of TechSoup Global and The Circulate Initiative.

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Episode Guide:

0:00 - Intro

1:33 - What Is Innovation?

2:23 - What does 'big' mean?

3:41 - 'BIG' in Tech: Scale

5:07 - Social Media: adverse effects on body image perspective

6:10 - Thinking in Spheres

8:04 - Arriving at the broader view of innovation

9:48 - The medical field perspective: homeostasis

13:09 - Segregation: of knowledge and markets

14:33 - Coalescence: travel, upbringing, cultures, experiences

15:41 - Relationships, Connections, and Synthesizing

17:51 - Human aspect of Innovation

18:16 - Vicious cycles and Virtuous cycles

20:21 - What isn't innovation?

22:38 - Finding the right people who'll operate and support you  

23:32 - Driving towards harmony

24:44 - Past vs Present: Conversations of necessity

26:12 - Decentralization of the world of Tech: moving out of California

27:12 - Pandemic supply chain crisis

28:05 - Homogeneity of thought and risk aversion

29:52 - Diversity: don't put your egg in one basket

32:07 - Advice to innovators 
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Resources Mentioned: 

People referenced:

• Johann Christian Gottlob Baumgarten

Stop Asian Hate:

• Stop AAPI Hate: report hate crimes here
• Get the latest news and updates all over the country here (Instagram)
• Chinese for Affirmative Action Donation link
• Asians for Mental Health Directory
• Anti-Racist Guide
• The AAPI Emergency Response Network (ERN): Worldwide vigil on 3/26 at 7:30 PM EST

Black History Month:

• History of Black History Month
• Why Is Black History Month Celebrated in February?
• 2022 Theme: Black Health and Wellness
  • books and guides here

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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.

Galen Bingham is the founder of Kiln Global Coaching & Consulting. Known as the leadership strategist, he is a leadership trainer, retreat facilitator and certified executive coach with 30 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies. 

More about our guest:

Galen Bingham is the founder of Kiln Global Coaching & Consulting. Known as the leadership strategist, he is a leadership trainer, retreat facilitator and certified executive coach with 30 years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies. He is consistently sought out to advise or serve on premiere non-profit boards where, Galen provides oversight in governance, board development, CEO selection and organizational leadership. He has coached or consulted with over 875 senior executives, CEOs and non-profit leaders across 7 countries.  He is a best selling author of IMPACT: A Leadership Fable: Your Power To Make A Lasting Difference. Galen also hosts the Whiskey, Jazz and Leadership podcast.

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Episode Guide:

2:22 - What Is Innovation

2:45 - Creative Imagination: 2 Types

4:17 - Risk Reward: creative vs synthetic imagination

5:25 - Pressures of Wall Street

5:39 - West vs East: Running a business

6:27 - What drives the difference between the West and East in long-term planning

7:33 - Catalogue of Life and scenario catalogs

9:11 - Developed Courage

10:57 - Cultivating 'freedom' at work and managing implications of 'the fall'

14:01 - Unlocking the drive of confidence with decades of experiences

15:19 - Old paradigm lost: collecting lessons from life

17:45 - Ubiquitous world: impact to wonder and innovation

18:39 - Data, Information, Knowledge, and Henry Ford

21:19 - What isn't Innovation?  

22:18 -  Implications of value in innovation; is 'interesting' innovation?

24:32 - Focus: the 'Now' vs the future

25:57 - Value in having an objective point of view

26:45 - Coaching: helping navigate what you already know and how

27:48 - Finding the 'language'

29:59 - Defining value

32:30 - Advice for innovators

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Resources Mentioned: 

Books:

• IMPACT: A Leadership Fable: Your Power To Make A Lasting Difference

Galen's podcast:

• Whiskey, Jazz and Leadership

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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.

Quinn Osha is the founder of Topmarq, an innovative online platform that allows car owners to get the best price for their used car. Quinn shares how his company applies the aggregator concept common in other industries to transform the private seller experience in the automotive industry. He also discusses the differences among the four types of innovation he sees in the business world.

More about our guest:

Quinn Osha is the founder of Topmarq, an innovative online platform that allows car owners to get the best price for their used car. A car fanatic since he was young, Quinn saw room for disruption in the trillion dollar automotive industry that would allow people to get better deals when selling cars. Despite starting with no co-founder and minimal funding, Quinn took Topmarq to revenue within 6 months and the company now covers dealerships with a combined volume of over 1 million vehicles per month.

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Episode Guide:

0:00 - Intro

1:43 - What is Innovation

3:44 - Innovation: influencing business-building

5:21 - The automotive industry and Topmarq's search engine-esque feature

7:20 - Differentiating Topmarq from competitors

11:54 - Role as the aggregator

13:25  - Staying away from heavy research projects

15:04 - What isn't innovation

17:14  - Working on patents and eureka moments

18:09 - Engineering background standpoint

22:12 - Engineering and Sales: different perspectives

24:30 - TopMarq today

26:56 - What's next for TopMarq?

28:30 - Advice for innovators

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Resources Mentioned: 

Book Mentioned:

• Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant

Services compared:

• Kayak - Online Travel Search Engine
• Google Flights

Previous episode mentioned:

• Episode 7: Innovation is more than invention

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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.

Geoff Orazem is the co-founder of Eastern Foundry, an incubator for growing defense oriented technology companies, and Federal Foundry a software and media company for defense contractors. Geoff talks on the $500 billion government contracting market, the federal innovation programs, and how innovation can help provide better touch points for government customer-service.

More about our guest:

Geoff Orazem is a cofounder of Eastern Foundry, an incubator for growing defense oriented technology companies, and Federal Foundry a software and media company for defense contractors. He is a decorated Marine Infantry Officer and holds a law degree from Harvard Law school.

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Episode Guide:

0:00 - Intro

1:12 - What Is Innovation

2:31 - Recognized patterns and shaping career

3:19 - Problem-solving like online dating platforms

5:47 - Analogy: Government contract problem and 'dating' problem

8:12 - The 500$ billion- a year- government contracting market

11:22 - Perception: 'Malicious' interest on keeping people out

13:31 - Keeping it classified or unclassified

15:10 - Innovation INSIDE the government to address systematic issues

17:36 - Case Study: the Jedi contract

18:56 - Gov't: most innovative and most risk-tolerant in technological space

20:02 - Small businesses, Deep-tech projects, Venture capitalists

21:22 - Synergy of government and innovators

24:38 - Long-term plans and bad customer service

25:14 - Average Americans and their Government touch points

26:09 - Number of registered government contractors

29:45 - Disneyfication of news

31:13 - Twitter feeds, representatives, senators, and contract winnings

32:47 - How someone could take advantage of the work

34:13 - Advice to future innovators wanting to get into the federal market

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Resources Mentioned: 

Book Mentioned:

• The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution 

Contract:

• Jedi Contract

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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.

William A. Lumpkin is Head of New Products Strategy & Business Development for Alexion, Astra Zeneca Rare Disease Business Unit. Will shares how innovation works within the pharmaceutical industry and how marketing and science differs especially in commercialization.

More about our guest:

William A. Lumpkin is Head of New Products Strategy & Business Development for Alexion, Astra Zeneca Rare Disease Business Unit. His business acumen, enterprise leadership, and passion for cross-functional collaboration helps bring new medicines to people living with rare diseases across the world. Prior to Alexion, he held a diverse set of U.S. and global commercial leadership roles at Takeda, Baxter, Baxalta, Shire, and Procter & Gamble spanning functional disciplines, product lifecycles and therapeutic areas. William is a proud father of three (Ailey, Sage, and Liam), loving husband (Layla), and resilient Indiana University sports fan. He also maintains interests in urban community development initiatives and was on faculty at the University of North Carolina Kenan Flagler School of Business online MBA program. He earned his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and B.S. Finance from Indiana University.

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Episode Guide:

0:00 - Intro

2:03 - What is Innovation

3:14 - How people impact innovation

6:00 - Seeing the bigger picture in life

8:05 - Bigger picture: affecting day-to-day life and effecting innovation and collaboration  

8:41 - Earning trust: Top 1 priority

10:07 - Stereotyped view of Pharmaceuticals

10:52 - Large companies vs smaller companies: Providing real value to people

12:21 - What isn't Innovation

15:29 - Intersection and divergence of Marketing and Scientists

17:14 - Implications of the commercialization cycle

19:43 - Experiences that shaped Professional development views

22:22 - People: structures, connections, and excitement

22:56 - People of Color: finding energy and importance of passion

23:49 - Being "me" all day long in the Corporate America

26:14  - Advice for future innovators (and the public)

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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.

Dr. Ann Kowal Smith is Founder and Executive Director of Reflection Point, which facilitates story-based conversations in workplaces to foster inclusion and collaboration. Dr. Smith shares how creating environments outside of the framework of seniority creates ripples of empathy that drive lifelong learning.

More about our guest:

Dr. Ann Kowal Smith serves as Founder & Executive Director of Reflection Point. Reflection Point facilitates story-based conversations that deepen the quality of relationships and foster inclusion and collaboration at every level of the workplace. Ann has also served as Principal with Heidrick & Struggles International and Strategy Expert with McKinsey & Company. Prior to joining McKinsey, Ann practiced corporate and securities law in private and corporate settings. Ann earned her AB from  Bryn Mawr College, her MA from the University of Michigan, and both her JD and DBA from Case Western Reserve University. Her dissertation examined organizational learning and innovation.

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Episode Guide:

0:00 - Intro

1:25 - What Is Innovation?

3:23 - Enabled by a Web of Social Networks

4:17 - The HUMAN social network

5:08 - Corporate ladders and disconnect

8:31 - Generalists vs Specialists

9:51 -  Are we over-specializing?  

10:56 - Establishing a common language: Specialists and Generalists

11:41 - What is Reflection Point?

16:22 - Technically inclined employees in Reflection Point environment

19:19 - Changing a leaders' comfort level of communication

23:51 - Empathy for people and not things

25:20 - Empathy: A driver

26:32 - Garnering insights through the years

28:03 - Reflection Point: The Origin

28:49 - Lifelong learning

32:22 - Hard and Soft Skills: Visible and Invisible

35:08 - Collective Sport: Immersive and Ongoing

37:17 - Effective Service: Iterative process

38:17 - Advice for Innovators

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Resources Mentioned: 

Book Mentioned:

• The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution 

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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.

Luiz Zorzella, founder and principal of Amquant. Luiz shares on the contrast of Venture Capital and S&P. He also shares more about taking on the leadership role and different perspectives on the financial industry. 

More about our guest:

Luiz Zorzella, through his company, Amquant, works with banks, insurance companies, investment and other service firms worldwide in the areas of growth, profitability and innovation. In his podcast, The Strategy Taken, he interviews business leaders on how they make and implement difficult strategy decisions. He is also the author of the book Revenue Growth and publishes a monthly newsletter where he examines the growth drivers of the financial sector. Luiz is a former consultant and expert with McKinsey & Co. and investment banker with JP Morgan Chase.

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Episode Guide:

1:26 - What is Innovation?

2:28 - Venure Capital sector underperforimg the S&P

4:45 - Class movements: Outperformers, averages, underperfomers

5:51 - What is efficiency?

7:46 - S&P from 500 to 310

9:04 - Competitive advantages/capabilities    

10:02 - 'Not' creating value: 2 situations

12:26 - Leadership development space

14:01 - Coaching leadership perspective: Signal and Noise

15:41 - Financial Services: decisions on innovation through data

17:19 - Changing perspectives and fine-tuning  

19:25 - Investing in people: solving classic value-metric problems

22:54 - What isn't Innovation?

24:51 - Company identifiers: Good or bad at innovation?  

26:28 - Advice for innovator 

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Resources Mentioned: 

Luiz's personal ventures:

• Book: Revenue Growth Generation
• Company: Amquant
• Podcast: The Strategy Taken 
   

Book Mentioned:

• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

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OUTLAST Consulting offers professional development and strategic advisory services in the areas of innovation and diversity management.