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🌟 Thrilled to share that we're joining an incredible panel of entrepreneurs! Being an entrepreneur is challenging, especially from within the LGBT community, where unique hurdles are part of the journey.  I'm honored to discuss our experiences alongside the inspiring founders of Gay Pride Apparel and Flipstik - A Shark Tank Company. We'll dive into the challenges, share our stories, and explore insights that have shaped our paths.  Looking forward to a rich and enlightening discussion. Hope to see many of you there, bringing questions and insights of your own! 🏳️🌈 Sean Wilkerson Sergio Aragon Vicky Pasche Jesus Gutierrez Akeem Shannon #Entrepreneurship #LGBTQBusiness #InclusiveBusiness #PanelDiscussion!

🌟 Unlocking Community Transformation 🌟 🚀 Step 1: Roll out the red carpet for legendary entrepreneurs in your town. 🎉 Step 2: Celebrate their arrival with epic parties and inspiring pitch days. 🗣️ Step 3: Let them share their stories of life and business, both the successes and the lessons from failures. 🍽️ Step 4: Gather the community for a heartfelt dinner where residents declare their inspirations, commitments, and their path forward. 🔑 This is a piece of the secret sauce to building resilient communities with robust social infrastructure, sparking economic and communal transformation. 💪 If you want to learn more about our actual and complete cookbook and softwares that support community leaders in this process, let us know. We launch a new cohort coming up and have a network of awesome leaders like Richa Gupta who are so supportive of the communities we are helping to transform. #CommunityEmpowerment #EconomicRevival #TogetherWeThrive

Calm on the surface but internally 😬 at the innovation list I’ve put together for 2024. Before we get there, just wait until you see some of the things we have planned for the rest of 2023 before it’s full steam ahead for all of our brands into the new year! The last two weeks of travel have included some amazing conversations for current and future projects as well as seeing some of those projects come to life right before my eyes. Strap yourselves in 🚀🚀🚀🚀

It's not too late apply to the Innovation Sprint hackathon-style event to ideate and build. First place project receives a prize of $3000 💡 Apply here: https://lnkd.in/gZtBQmqK What is the Innovation Sprint? --> watch this 30 second video to find out.

#InnovationAtEppendorf Get to Know Our Innovation Coaches at Eppendorf: Anne and Simon! Today, we're introducing you to Anne and Simon, the dynamic duo driving innovation at Eppendorf. 🚀 Innovation can be as wild as discovering your glasses on your nose while frantically searching. But how do you keep a market leader like Eppendorf innovating? "We're not just innovators; we're culture cultivators. We foster a culture that embraces experimentation and minimizes the fear of failure. Let's try something different! Failure can be magnificent! And when needed, our creative thinking bounce house is there. Our most cherished memories include the time we had a brainstorming session that birthed a ridiculously impractical idea, which led to a more feasible and innovative solution. It taught us that even the craziest ideas can spark brilliance. In a nutshell, our role as Innovation Coaches at Eppendorf is to keep the innovation fires burning. We do it with a sense of humor, a ton of creativity, and the belief that innovation is not just a job; it's a way of life." 🚀🌟 #Innovation #InnovationCulture #CreativeThinking

Inspiring, thought provoking and humorous talk from David Speed. A really uplifting and distinctive talk this afternoon from Global Innovation Forum (GIFLondon) Three key things stood out for me in how it relates to innovation and how we support brand growth at Brand Genetics: Standing Out is hard. "That is why I use neon pink". What's your alternative to neon pink paint to stand out from the sea of sameness? Be everywhere. The other side of standing out is be in as many places as possible, paint everywhere! How can you be in more places and get seen by more people? Trust Yourself. Behind what I do is play. Believe yourself and what you are doing even when those around you dont. What do you and your teams believe in, that you should hold true to?

Do you know what? Innovation doesn’t work… …when done in isolation. 🧠It can’t be the job of single people or teams to ‘be innovative’. It takes a culture and mindset with buy in from bottom to top; one where it’s ok to try new things, there is space to test, and acceptance that it may lead to learning or failure, before scale. 🧪It also can’t be done in ‘labs’ or silos, disconnected from the business, aimlessly testing concepts or cool tech with no eye on business value as an outcome. ⁉️And it can’t be done without first understanding the problem you’re trying to solve, with real clarity on who you are solving for for, the value it will bring them and some idea of what good looks like from a potential solution. 🚀Which is why, together with the brilliant minds of BIMA (British Interactive Media Association) Innovation Council, “The Innovators Guide” was created. Lindsay Herbert Alex McCloy Duane Holland Sunny Kumar Rose Tighe Roselyn Xavier Ant Boyle Matt Sullivan 💡A practical toolkit made from real world examples coupled with expertise from across industries. From starting with the problem to involving stakeholders and iterating it was great fun being involved in the workshops which ran last year to help extract the insight from SMEs and I hope you agree the outcome is both interesting and insightful! ⚡️Innovators! Is there anything you would add? #innovation #BIMA #theinnovatorsguide #collaboration #test #learn #fail #agile #innovate #whitepaper #expertise #mymondaymegabyte

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At the recent the Product Innovation Master Class, media leaders shared how companies can think about productising innovative formats and provided examples of innovative formats that keep user values at their core.