Women Who Innovate

Steve Jobs, said that, creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.  Renee Hopkins, the moderator of #innochat is our first guest for the creativity series and will co-host the remainder of the series. We will explore the role that creativity plays in innovation and how important it is the success of innovators...and innovation. Please join us as we put Renee in the hotseat!

Rowan Gibson starting talking about the innovation movement in his book, The Four Lens of Innovation a few years ago - he also spoke about the importance of placing both men and women on innovation teams. In this episode Rowan Gibson and Zulma Acevedo will share their observations of the state of innovation for 2013 and what to look for in 2014. We are ending the year with two audacious guests as we give a 360 on Innovation.

Do you focus on capturing ideas or opportunity? In Dr. Pam Henderson's incredibly visual book "Killing Ideas: You can kill an idea, you can’t kill an opportunity," she describes how killing ideas is actually the starting place for growth and sustainability. Pam Henderson, Ph.D. is cofounder and CEO of NewEdge, Inc. a growth, strategy, and design firm that delivers on new opportunities for start-ups through to Fortune 500 companies.  Ideas alone just don't cut it and they can fail a company. 

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Welcome to the launch of Women Who Innovate!  Our inaugural guest is the renowned Vivek Wadhwa, who has been relentless in the pursuit of getting more women involved in innovation.  The purpose of this radio show is to provide a platform where the voices of women innovators can be heard.  I could not be more honored that Vivek is opening up a subject that I am passionate on – inspiring women to get out of their comfort zones and innovate.  A few things about Vivek – in 1999, was named a “leader of tomorrow” by Forbes magazine; in 2012 was named one of six 2012 Outstanding American by Choice” recipients and was recognized by Foreign Policy magazine as a Top 100 Global Thinker.  In 2013, was named to Time magazine’s list of the Top 40 Most Influential Minds in Tech.  Join us as Vivek shares with us his groundbreaking crowdsourced campaign on gathering innovation stories from women!