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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 keeps happening. Each episode shares wisdom about shaping the processes and structures that work, the challenges overcome, and the lessons learned to sustain innovation as a practice, not just a moment.
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Average audio length:
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Guest interviews
Video podcast
English
United States
18 episodes
since Nov. 14, 2025
episodic
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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 to 20 people randomly. Frontline employees. Middle…
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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 do not care.
So Iliriana Kacaniku sat with Roel…
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 cashier at the branch trying to ease the crowd. T…
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 customers, and build communities of practice around innov…
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 for a while. It may make you feel energized because …
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 branding a program to measuring how it generates its retur…
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 35 years ensuring excellent delivery of global IT ser…
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 global services firms.
He reveals who actually sh…
Innovation is inherently uncertain because it is about the future. That uncertainty is also the reason innovation gets cut first when budgets tighten. Most leaders cannot put a number on the value innovation creates, so when finance asks, the room goes quiet.
Simon Hill has spent fifteen years buil…
Innovation is not failing because organizations lack ideas. It is failing because the system that should turn ideas into outcomes was never built. And every year it stays broken, bad ideas keep dying slowly, at enormous cost, while good ones never make it through.
Dan Toma has spent his career maki…
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