Untold Stories of Innovation Podcast
Welcome to Untold Stories of Innovation
How do leading innovators get people to believe, fund, and support their big ideas? Can the power of storytelling fuel a culture of idea-generation? Can storytelling ignite innovation? Join us as we sit down with the nation’s top innovators to tell the stories of their innovations. After all, what good is an innovation left untold?
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Innovation Storytelling Through Animation with Dave Bossert of Disney
“Sometimes you just have to take a leap of faith and just go do something. But to me, that’s the fun about creating stuff. It all boils down to story. I don’t care what you’re involved with, if you’re hocking new sparkling water, there’s a story to be told. You’ve got to figure out the story that you want to tell people.” —Dave Bossert
Spurring Economic Vibrancy Through Innovation and Ecosystem Development with Wendy Lea
“这不是to say the way we’ve been doing innovation in the past is wrong… Things are evolving. And our community and our people, be they entrepreneurs or large corporate people, professionals are now looking at the world differently relative to their role in it and their role in business.” — Wendy Lea
Connecting Leadership and Storytelling with Ryan Hawk
“Every person on your team has a different personality and a different motivation. As a leader, it is our job to understand what that is, to help encourage them to do their ultimate best work for the betterment of both themselves as well as your organization.” — Ryan Hawk
Inspiring Underrepresented Innovators with Derrick Braziel
“It’s about a larger story, which is this renaissance that’s happening in Cincinnati. And I can’t think of a single person that I’ve ever met who lives in Cincinnati that doesn’t want the city to get better. And I think that most of us would agree that it’s a better city if all of us can participate.” —Derrick Braziel
How to Protect Your Innovations + Support Women in STEM with Angela Freeman
“I didn’t know patent law existed. I just wasn’t exposed. So, I truly believe exposure is critical.” —Angela Freeman is an intellectual property associate at Barnes & Thornburg, LLC and president of Women & Hi Tech
Nurse-led Innovation with Charlene Platon
“Storytelling is so very important, especially when it comes to innovation and disruption.” —Charlene Platon, Johnson and Johnson nurse innovation fellow and director of ambulatory nursing at Stanford Health Care Untold
Creating COVID-19 Infographics | 10 Minute Tech Comm
Our very own podcast host and CEO, Kathryn (Katie) Trauth Taylor, PhD, had a great conversation with Ryan Weber from The University of Alabama in Huntsville about all things technical communication.
Innovation Cultures with Brian Cobb
“We need to have talent behind everything that we do. We need to understand what’s happening, what’s coming at us, and then finding that talent that just understands the nature of the business, not just internally but externally, across party lines, if you will. And then ultimately, how do we make a difference in not only the global economy, but who we are as humans?” —Brian Cobb
Advancing Science through Story with Lou Gritzo
“The storytelling changes throughout that whole evolution of the innovation from the front end to the tail end…and the one common factor is can the person you’re talking to put themselves in that position? And if they can, then it becomes almost immediately credible.” —Lou Gritzo, VP at FM Global
Data. Storytelling. Empathy. COVID-19. with Jeff Shaffer of Data + Science
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COVID-19 Drives Digital Health Innovation with Dena Bravata
“Storytelling is one of the most powerful tools that we have, certainly that I have had as a clinician, as an academic, as a policymaker and as an entrepreneur.” —Dena Bravata
Life-Saving Stories Spark Medical Innovation with Angie Lorts
“Storytelling is really important to something like ACTION, and how you tell the story and the passion that you have behind it means a lot to everybody that signs on to be part of it.” —Angie Lorts, cardiac intensivist, co-founder of ACTION, and associate chief quality officer of outcomes at Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center
Fueling the Future through Inclusive Innovation Stories with Jennifer Joe
“Stories are just incredibly important. They’re not just stories. They’re visions of ourselves that we need to smell. We need to see. We need to touch. And we need to believe. Stories make them believable.” —Jennifer Joe, MD & founder of MedTech Boston and Vanguard.Health
Inspiring New Cultural Expectations in the Beauty Industry with Don Frey of The Honest Company
“You always have to be spurring other people to innovate—that will allow you to innovate the future.” —Don Frey, chief innovation officer at The Honest Company
Lifelong Learning + Open Innovation to Transform Culture with Steve Rader of NASA
“With open learning and lifelong learning, people can explore their interests and then start to stitch them together in ways that really are the engine behind innovation.” —Steve Rader, deputy director for the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation at NASA
Igniting Creativity and Leveraging Failure with Michael Todasco of Paypal
“Storytelling is so critical to the leadership process that we need to understand how it works at a high level, a corporate level, and a lower level, as well for any individual team. Within the innovation lab, everything starts with story.” —Michael Todasco, Senior Director of Innovation at PayPal
Innovation on a Global Scale with the Science & Technology Diplomatic Circle
“There’s been no better time to tell clear stories about science than today. And that is quintessentially the job of the scientist, regardless of their nationality or their location. And we have so many people who are talented at asking questions and they’re talented at answering them in really innovative and unique ways. But if they can’t convey that to the public, if they can’t translate that information or those ideas into a product, then it gets lost.” —Alicia Head of Innovation+ at Swissnex Boston
Empowering Women in Innovation with Debbie Saviano and Stacey Schieffelin
“Focus on the positive. Maintain your optimism. Get support and play and explore new ways of seeing and being in this world.” —Stacey Schieffelin of Women’s Leadership Live
Harnessing Curiosity + Creativity with Duncan Wardle of Disney
“Take your audience on a walk. Bring them out from behind the table and walk with them from one storyboard to the next and listen to their feedback. Instead of being reductionist and shooting your ideas down, they will build on your work as you go because when you walk with someone, you turn your presentation into a conversation. People will think expansively with you. They will build on your work as you go.” —Duncan Wardle, the former V.P. of innovation and creativity at the Walt Disney Company
Why Storytelling Matters to Innovation with Paul Andrew Smith
“Listening to other people’s innovation stories literally, I think, makes you more innovative. Just hearing that somebody else did something in a different industry, a completely different industry that was outside the box, done breaking the rules. Not only gives you a license to do it, but I think it literally gives you ideas for what can be done in your industry.” —Paul Andrew Smith
Introducing the Untold Stories of Innovation Podcast
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Innovation on a Global Scale with the Science & Technology Diplomatic Circle
“There’s been no better time to tell clear stories about science than today. And that is quintessentially the job of the scientist, regardless of their nationality or their location. And we have so many people who are talented at asking questions and they’re talented at answering them in really innovative and unique ways. But if they can’t convey that to the public, if they can’t translate that information or those ideas into a product, then it gets lost.” —Alicia Head of Innovation+ at Swissnex Boston
Inspiring Underrepresented Innovators with Derrick Braziel
“It’s about a larger story, which is this renaissance that’s happening in Cincinnati. And I can’t think of a single person that I’ve ever met who lives in Cincinnati that doesn’t want the city to get better. And I think that most of us would agree that it’s a better city if all of us can participate.” —Derrick Braziel
Harnessing Curiosity + Creativity with Duncan Wardle of Disney
“Take your audience on a walk. Bring them out from behind the table and walk with them from one storyboard to the next and listen to their feedback. Instead of being reductionist and shooting your ideas down, they will build on your work as you go because when you walk with someone, you turn your presentation into a conversation. People will think expansively with you. They will build on your work as you go.” —Duncan Wardle, the former V.P. of innovation and creativity at the Walt Disney Company
COVID-19 Drives Digital Health Innovation with Dena Bravata
“Storytelling is one of the most powerful tools that we have, certainly that I have had as a clinician, as an academic, as a policymaker and as an entrepreneur.” —Dena Bravata
Fueling the Future through Inclusive Innovation Stories with Jennifer Joe
“Stories are just incredibly important. They’re not just stories. They’re visions of ourselves that we need to smell. We need to see. We need to touch. And we need to believe. Stories make them believable.” —Jennifer Joe, MD & founder of MedTech Boston and Vanguard.Health
Creating COVID-19 Infographics | 10 Minute Tech Comm
Our very own podcast host and CEO, Kathryn (Katie) Trauth Taylor, PhD, had a great conversation with Ryan Weber from The University of Alabama in Huntsville about all things technical communication.
Advancing Science through Story with Lou Gritzo
“The storytelling changes throughout that whole evolution of the innovation from the front end to the tail end…and the one common factor is can the person you’re talking to put themselves in that position? And if they can, then it becomes almost immediately credible.” —Lou Gritzo, VP at FM Global