
Activate Innovation Lounge features real stories from leaders who activate innovators, innovation, and innovation culture within and beyond their organizations. Through conversations with innovation leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs, we explore how organizations unlock the potential of their people, open up to outside ideas, and build cultures where innovation does not just happen once but ke... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 18 | Founded | 8 months ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | BusinessManagement | |||

If you had an idea in your organization, would you know where to go?
That question is the simplest audit of whether you have an innovating engine or just innovation theater.
Ben Bensaou asks it every time he walks into a company. He interviews 15 t... more
There are a lot of “why questions” that need to be answered when it comes to purposeful activation of employee innovators. And one of those is why do organizations and their leaders miss on cultivating this capability. The answer is not that leaders ... more
The most powerful source of innovation in an organization is not the strategy, the technology, or the dedicated innovation team. It is the hidden innovator inside every employee. The agent in the contact center watching the same friction repeat. The ... more
In this bonus episode of the Activate Innovation Lounge, Iliriana Kaçaniku continues her conversation with Jan Fischer of Innosabi, an innovation management platform that has helped enterprises run challenges, source ideas from employees and customer... more
If you’re a leader who got excited and enthused to invite everyone in the organization to share ideas about innovation, please hold on, and don't do it.
It may feel like the right thing to do, it may give you the excitement that you haven't felt fo... more
In the first part of this conversation, Alexis Samuel laid out what he calls the Baker's Dozen. Twelve building blocks for activating grassroots innovation in a large enterprise.
From the CEO's call to innovate to psychological safety.
From brandin... more
There is a tension in how organizations think about activating employee innovators.
Who knows best what needs to be solved?
The leader who sees the business from the top? Or the employee who lives the friction every day?
Alexis Samuel spent over 3... more
Why do most innovation programs generate excitement but deliver nothing? You collect hundreds of ideas. Award the best ones. Then watch them die in handoff limbo.
Alexis Samuel has spent decades building grassroots innovation programs at scale in g... more
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This show sketches practical, inside-the-organization playbooks for activating innovators and sustaining an innovation culture. Across episodes, guests—from chief innovators to platform founders and design-challenge experts—share proven approaches for surfacing frontline ideas, democratizing participation, and linking creativity to measurable business value. The conversations emphasize governance, leadership support, psychological safety, and scalable structures (from internal accelerators to intrapreneurship programs) that help large enterprises move from ideation to impact. A standout angle is the consistent focus on open innovation, problem-led approaches, and AI as an augmenting tool rather than a replacement for human judgment. Listene... more
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8. Ed Essey
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