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Innovation Through Play: Why Fun Drives Breakthrough Thinking

Click to watch (13:31) or scroll down to read more Hey there, innovation champions!   Back when I was a professional artist, after years of making art for clients, I knew I needed to get back to making art just for the joy of it. And I knew the path to get there was play. But here’s the […]

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The Summer Innovation Mindset: Creating in Season

Click to watch (11:32) or scroll down to read more Hey there, innovation champions!   It’s that time of year when the pace seems to slow down, teams are cycling through vacation schedules, and there’s this collective exhale that happens across the tech world. But here’s what I’ve learned: summer isn’t a season to coast—it’s actually the perfect […]

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The Freedom to Create: Removing Innovation Barriers

Click to watch (13:36) or scroll down to read more The Canvas That Changed Everything Hey there, innovation champions! Imagine this scene for a moment: I’m standing in my studio, holding a pristine canvas I’d owned for years. Still wrapped in plastic. Still untouched.   Why? Because every time I looked at it, my inner gremlin whispered, “Who […]

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Innovation Through Inclusion: The Power of Diverse Perspectives

Click to watch (14:59) or scroll down to read more  Hey there, innovation champions!   Last week at a conference in DC, I heard a story that stopped me in my tracks. It was one of those moments that makes you realize how much you don’t know about the world around you.   A delegate from Yellowstone was […]

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Peak Innovation: Maintaining Creative Momentum

Click to watch (15:47) or scroll down to read more Hey there, innovation champions! Melissa Dinwiddie here.   When you were a kid, did you ever experience a blackout, or a hurricane, that disrupted normal life for a bit? Maybe you had to go without electricity or water for a day or two.   If it’s for a […]

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The Innovation Legacy: Building Cultures That Last

Click to watch (15:01) or scroll down to read more Hey there, innovation champions!   My brother and sister-in-law just celebrated their anniversary. Not a “big” one, but as I called to wish them well and asked if they were celebrating, my brother said they were helping their teenage son with homework. So… that would be a no. […]

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The Power of Innovation Resets: Getting Back on Track

Click to watch (14:50) or scroll down to read more Hey there, innovation champions!   Picture this: You’re staring at a pile of half-finished projects, abandoned initiatives, and ideas that once seemed brilliant but now feel like reminders of failure.   Sound familiar?   Let me tell you about my own pile of “innovation debris” and the surprising […]

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Innovation Memory: How Organizations Learn from Experience

Click to watch (14:50) or scroll down to read more Hey there, innovation champions!   Have you ever solved a brilliant problem, only to watch your team struggle with the same challenge months later—as if the solution never existed?   This phenomenon—what I call “organizational amnesia”—isn’t just frustrating. It’s costing your company time, money, and breakthrough innovations.   […]

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The Creative Safety Net: How to Measure Psychological Safety and Innovation Confidence

Click to watch (17:05) or scroll down to read more Hey there, innovation champions!   One of the great things about consulting for an enormous enterprise like Meta is that you can get passed around from team to team.   Which is exactly what happened to me after my first job with a research team there went really […]

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Beyond Silos: The Power of Cross-Functional Creativity

Click to watch (15:09) or scroll down to read more Hey there, innovation champions!   The Solo Genius Myth The year I turned 31, I had an adult bat mitzvah ceremony.   Ever the over-achiever, I not only chanted all seven lines of Torah in Hebrew (most bar/bat mitzvah kids — or adults — chant one line), I […]

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The Nurturing Leader: How Supportive Environments Drive Innovation

Click to watch (14:35) or scroll down to read more Hey there, innovation champions!   “This had better be amazing! Don’t disappoint anybody!”   That was the voice inside my own head for years when I was a professional artist.   Not, ironically, when I was working on a piece for a client. But in those rare moments […]

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The Power of Reflection in Innovation: Mid-Year Reset

Click to watch (13:56) or scroll down to read more Hey there, innovation champions!   Raise your hand if you love filling out your tax return.   Anyone? Hello?    Okay, I didn’t think so. I thought I was done last month when my husband and I got all our files together for our accountant. But no—end of […]

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Sustainable Innovation: Building Frameworks That Last

Click to watch (16:16) or scroll down to read more Hey there, innovation champions!   Back in 2010, I hit a creative wall that felt insurmountable. After fifteen years as a professional artist, I was burned out, creatively blocked, and completely stuck. The irony wasn’t lost on me – I’d built my entire career around creativity, yet I […]

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The Paradox of Constraints: How Limitations Fuel Creativity

Click to watch (17:26) or scroll down to read more Hey there, innovation champions!   I’ll never forget my very first performance improv class. The teacher divided our class of twelve into four teams, and gave us 60 seconds to come up with a name for our teams!   Panic ensued. “Sixty seconds?! What?!!”   The teams wasted […]

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The Innovation Renewal Cycle: Breaking Through Creative Plateaus

Click to watch (14:58) or scroll down to read more Hey there, innovation champions!   Have you ever found yourself completely stuck on a project, feeling like your creative well has run dry?   I still remember the sickening feeling in my stomach when I got my very first art commission. After the initial excitement wore off, panic […]

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