Natalie is an experienced innovation specialist having spent over 25 years working as a corporate innovation director, a business consultant and entrepreneur. She has worked for and consulted with some of the world’s leading organizations including Cisco Systems, GSK, LEO Pharma Asia, Edgewell, and the Singapore Government, helping them build innovation systems, culture and capabilities as well as generating new ideas to help them grow their teams and businesses.

As Founder of The Entheo Network, based out of Singapore, she has made her passion for purpose and people driven innovation practical as well as inspirational to elevate people’s thinking on not only what they can create, but how - the mind, skill sets and cultural environments - that make everyday innovation happen.

Lemuel Lasher International Executive, Investor, CEO of Boehme Eckhart LCC and Chairman of the Board of LEO - Leading Edge Only joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Lem shared his story being Chief Innovation Officer at CSC, the setup, structure and how he changed the innovation culture in CSC. We talk about how he is helping organizations to innovate and the 4 critical questions he is asking before he agrees to support a company. Furthermore we talked about LEO and the opportunities of a true global innovation marketplace. And last but not least he shares a dirty little secret about innovation.

Ricardo Rosa Head of Innovation Sonae Sierra, an international Commercial Real Estate Company, joined me to connect the dots of innovation and entrepreneurship.

In our conversation he shared his story of how he developed from one decade of working in marketing to running the innovation Department in Sonae Sierra. We talk about Innovation in the commercial real estate industry, changing areas inside of it and how he works with Innovation in Sonae Sierra.

Tony is the pioneer of Jobs-to-be-Done Theory, the inventor of the Outcome-Driven Innovation® (ODI) process, and the founder of strategy and innovation consulting firm Strategyn. Tony has applied his ODI process at some of the world’s leading companies and across nearly all industries to inform breakthrough innovations—achieving a success rate that is 5 times better than the industry average. Philip Kotler calls Tony “the Deming of innovation” and credits him with bringing predictability to innovation. Published in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review, Tony is also the author of bestsellers What Customers Want and JOBS TO BE DONE: Theory to Practice.

In this Episode I meet with Declan Mc Laughlin where he shares his story and the way he works with his own business while working for his own business and what he learns from other entrepreneurs as Chapter Director of Start-Up-Grind in Edinburgh.