Guests

Max Mckeown

Author of The Innovator's Book

Dr. Max is an innovation consultant, a researcher, and a strategic advisor to many of the world’s most admired and ambitious companies. 

He is the best-selling author of several award-winning books, including The Strategy Book, Adaptability, Now, and the book we discuss in this podcast, The Innovator’s Book.

Kaihan Krippendorff

Author of Driving Innovation from Within

Kaihan Krippendorff is a world top expert in innovation and strategy. He spent part of his career as a consultant at Mackenzie before founding his own innovation consultancy firm OutThinker. He’s a member of the prestigious thinker 50 radar group, and a bestselling author of five books, including the book we discuss in this show, Driving Innovation from Within.

David Bland

Author of Testing Business Ideas

David is the founder of Precoil, a long-time Agile, Design Thinking, and Lean Startup practitioner. He spent over 10 years of his career scaling technology startups and continues to work with the startup community. 

David is an innovation advisor for fortune 500 companies and the co-author of Testing Business Ideas, a Wiley business book with Alexander Osterwalder.

Rita McGrath

Author of Seeing Around Corners

Rita is a top expert in innovation and growth strategies. She’s a long-time professor at Columbia business school and an award-winning author of several books including the End of Competitive Advantage. Rita is consistently ranked among the top 10 management thinkers in the world and was ranked number one for strategy by the prestigious Thinker50 award.

Rob Fitzpatrick

Author of The Mom Test

Rob Fitzpatrick is a serial entrepreneur, a Y Combinator alum, and the author of The Mom Test. Rob has designed start-up education programs for a bunch of accelerators, taught at Oxford and UCL, and built products used globally by brands like Sony and MTV.

Chris Coleridge

University of Cambridge

Chris is a serial entrepreneur, a mentor, an expert in the innovation practice, and a board advisor for several startups. He’s also a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship and the founder of the University of Cambridge Business School Entrepreneurship Launchpad.

Leda Glyptis

Writer at Fintech Future

Leda is an innovation expert, a geek, a recovering banker, a writer for Fintech Futures, an all-weather optimist, and the Chief Client Officer at 10x Future Technologies. Prior to joining 10x, she led several innovation teams within a corporate setup and also worked in the fintech world; the latest of which was as the founding CEO at 11:FS.

Scott Anthony

Author of Eat, Sleep, Innovate

Scott is a well know innovation Leader; a senior partner at Innosight, a winner of the prestigious thinker 50 innovation award, and a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review as well as MIT Sloan Management Review. Scott is also an award- winning author of numerous innovation books, including the book we discuss in my podcast, Eat, Sleep, Innovate.

Tendayi Viki

Author of Pirates In the Navy

Tendayi is an associate partner at strategyzer, an academic, a winner of the prestigious thinker50 award, a regular contributing writer to Forbes, an innovator and an award-winning author of three books, the Corporate Startup, the Lean Product Lifecycle, and the Pirates In The Navy.