Paul Ridlen is President of Knight Piésold USA and a member of the Board of Directors of the Knight Piésold global group of companies, with management responsibility for Knight Piésold’s operations in the U.S., Mexico and Brazil. He has almost 30 years of experience in civil and geotechnical engineering related to mining, water resources, energy, and public infrastructure projects, with a specialty in tailings dam design, having supported the design and operation of some of the world’s largest t...
Jun 30, 2021•43 min•Ep. 10
Leslie Johnston launched Laudes Foundation as its first Chief Executive Officer in January 2020, bringing over 20 years of management experience across multiple sectors. At Laudes Foundation, she is leading the development of its initial vision, strategy, and operating model to deliver on its aspiration for global markets that value all people and respect nature. Previously, she headed C&A Foundation as its Executive Director, repositioning it as a global catalyst to make fashion a force for...
Jun 15, 2021•42 min•Ep. 9
Jana Henning is the Chief Product Officer at Athleta. An experienced leader in the retail and apparel industry, she has a long tenure with Gap Inc. where she has held leadership positions in merchandising across brands including Athleta, Old Navy and Gap. In her current role, Jana leads Athleta’s merchandising, design and supply chain teams. Passionate about sustainability, Jana oversaw the product development cycle that enabled Athleta to attain B Corp certification in 2017. She ensures Athleta...
Apr 22, 2021•32 min•Ep. 8
Questions Julie Charlestein and host Doug Sandler discuss on today's episode: How do you define innovation? Tell me why the dental industry is ripe for innovation? As a leader, how can you foster or teach innovation within an organization? Do you have any specific methodology to encourage people to solve problems? From your experience, do you have a set aside time for innovation? From a leader’s perspective, what is the biggest innovation leadership challenge? In practice how do you create a saf...
Oct 29, 2019•19 min•Ep. 7
Stephen Shapiro started his innovation work over 20 years ago while leading a 20,000-person practice at the consulting firm, Accenture. Since then he has written five books, including “Best Practices Are Stupid," which was named the best innovation and creativity book of the year, and his sixth book will be published early 2020. Stephen has presented at conferences in 50 countries and in 2015 he was inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame. About Inusual: Inusual is building a corporate innovation...
Oct 01, 2019•26 min•Ep. 6
Antesa Jensen Interview Antesa (Antee-sah) Jensen is an emotional intelligence and human-centric innovation expert who guides leaders and coaches in evoking the genius in themselves and others. She has lead emotional intelligence workshops with TEDxCopenhagen, interactive talks on the impact the unhealed human body has on the planet at international roundtables addressing climate change, and was a finalist with her talk on how knowledge is the opposite of innovation at the Nordic Business Forum ...
Aug 25, 2019•28 min•Ep. 5
Helene Cahen Company: Strategic Insights www.strategicinsights.biz Email: guide@StrategicInsights.biz LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/strategicinsights/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/@guidinnov We at Inusual are... building a professional community of innovative leaders serving organizations to go from conventional to exceptional coaching people to innovate in the market because innovation is difficult, we want people to have a creative and engaging job training people to stop reacting, and...
Jul 23, 2019•18 min•Ep. 4
JJ Flizanes is an Empowerment Strategist and the host of several podcast shows including Fit 2 Love and Spirit, Purpose & Energy. She is the Director of Invisible Fitness, an Amazon best-selling author of Fit 2 Love: How to Get Physically, Emotionally, and Spiritually Fit to Attract the Love of Your Life. She was named Best Personal Trainer in Los Angeles for 2007 by Elite Traveler Magazine. JJ has been featured in many national magazines, including Shape, Fitness, Elegant Bride, and Women’s...
Jun 25, 2019•21 min•Ep. 3
Pere Rosales is an Innovation Leadership Advisor and a Senior Executive Coach with more than 22 years of success spanning pharma, banking, insurance, fashion retail, and manufacturing. He’s interested in the human side of innovation and is also the author of "Estrategia Digital" 9th Editions by Deusto (Planeta). Founder and CEO of INUSUAL, a global innovation leadership firm based in Boston and Barcelona empowering leaders and organizations to evolve and achieve sustainable success. He had studi...
May 19, 2019•23 min•Ep. 2
Innovation is everywhere, we just need to look for it, draw it out, encourage it, foster it, nourish it and believe in it. Without innovation, organizations grow stale. Each week Human With Resources will bring you industry leaders, ready to share their ideas about building fertile ground for innovation by fostering amazing relationships, creating an environment of psychological safety for the employee that makes them feel part of a team, facilitating the sharing of his or her opinions or ideas ...
Apr 30, 2019•5 min•Ep. 1
