Innovation Storytellers

By Susan Lindner

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Did you ever wonder how an innovation got to its finish line? How innovators saw the future, made a product, and created change – in our world and in their companies? I did. Innovation Storytellers invites changemakers to describe how they created their innovation and just as important – THE STORIES – that made us fall in love with them. Come learn how great innovations need great stories to make them move around the world and how to become a better storyteller in the process. I'm Susan Lindner, the Innovation Storyteller. But I wasn't always. I've been a wannabe revolutionary, an epidemiologist at the CDC and an AIDS educator in the brothels of Thailand helping to turn former sex workers into entrepreneurs. Trained as an anthropologist and the Founder of Emerging Media, I've spent the last twenty years working with innovators from 60+ countries. Ranging from cutting edge startups to Fortune 100 companies like GE, Corning, Citi, Olayan, and nine foreign governments, helping their leaders to tell their stories and teaching them how to become incredible advocates for their innovations. Great innovation stories make change possible. They let us step into a future we can't see yet. I started this podcast to shine a light on our generation of great innovators, to learn how they brought their innovation to life and the stories they told to bring them to the world.

Episode Date
How LG Nova Is Turning Corporate Innovation Into New Companies
Jun 23, 2026
How FM Ignites Innovative Risk Management
Jun 16, 2026
How Are You Closing the Empathy Gap in Your AI Strategy?
Jun 09, 2026
260: How the Transatlantic Innovation Hub Connects US + Europe
Jun 02, 2026
259: How Peptides are Innovating Longevity Planning
May 26, 2026
258: How Are You Answering the Big 4 Questions, BEFORE You Tell Your Story?
May 19, 2026
How Discomfort Is the Human Factor Driving Innovation
May 12, 2026
256: How R&D Leaders Source Trends to Power Innovation
May 05, 2026
255: Are You Crushing Open Innovation?
Apr 28, 2026
Innovation or Elimination — the new book by Itai Green
Apr 21, 2026
253: How Buffalo Construction and O3XO Are Building Better with AI
Apr 14, 2026
252: How Authenticity Elevates Leadership Storytelling
Apr 07, 2026
How to Scale Innovation Using a Repeatable Growth Playbook CFOs Love
Mar 31, 2026
250: How AI Is Transforming Enterprise Infrastructure from the Inside Out
Mar 24, 2026
249: How Storytelling Became the Superpower of the AI Age
Mar 17, 2026
248: How Moody's is Rethinking AI in Finance
Mar 03, 2026
247: How Do We Humanize AI In Innovation
Feb 24, 2026
246: 100,000 Innovative Ideas at TD BANK
Feb 17, 2026
245: How Long Beach, CA is Closing Its Digital Divide
Feb 10, 2026
244: What's Your Storybuilding Process?
Feb 03, 2026
243: Three Words to Your Next Story
Jan 27, 2026
242: Are you a Punk or a Pinstripe in Innovation?
Jan 20, 2026
241: How to Live in the Innovation Simulation
Jan 13, 2026
240: Weathering the Tech Front: Amy Freeze on Avatars, AI, and Audience Connection
Jan 06, 2026
239: Does Corporate Innovation Actually Create Real Innovation?
Dec 30, 2025
238: How AXA's Risk Management Turns Impossible to NOW Possible
Dec 23, 2025
237: Transparency + Tech + Teamwork = The DHL Innovation Formula
Dec 16, 2025
236: Branding the Innovator: How to Build Authentic Relationships in the Age of AI
Dec 09, 2025
235: From Grid to Great: How Duke Energy Sparks Customer Innovation
Dec 02, 2025
234: How BAE Systems is Accelerating Defense Innovation
Nov 25, 2025
232: How The Swiffer Story Won Billion $ Boardroom Approval
Nov 11, 2025
231: Materials, Markets, and Mindsets: How Annalisa Gigante Creates Innovation Cultures
Nov 04, 2025
230: How Quantum Computing Is The Real Game Changer for Innovation's Biggest Questions
Oct 28, 2025
229: The Authentic Innovator: How OK Go's Damian Kulash Creates Connection Through Innovation
Oct 21, 2025
228: How Ailo's Green Data Center Could Become the Fastest IPO in SV
Oct 13, 2025
227: How Mastercard Payments Services is Centering Cybersecurity in Innovation
Oct 06, 2025
226: How to Continue, Kill, or Pivot Your Pilots with Clarity and Confidence
Sep 30, 2025
225: How SAP Signavio Uses Storytelling to Derisk Innovation
Sep 23, 2025
224: Mandates, Metrics, and Momentum: How Enterprises Innovate with Itonics
Sep 16, 2025
223: Tech for Good: Consumer Reports' Fight for Digital Consumer Rights
Sep 09, 2025
222: How Hensel Phelps is Diverging from the Construction Pack with New Innovation Strategies
Sep 02, 2025
221: How to Use "Inception" Strategies to Win Over Stakeholders And Create Quick Wins
Aug 26, 2025
220: How Medical Innovation Really Works: Friction, Failure, and Forward Motion
Aug 19, 2025
219: How 3Daughters is Changing Women's Contraceptives for Better
Aug 12, 2025
218: How Venture University Teaches Corporate Giants to Innovate
Aug 05, 2025
217: The Babson Research that Shows How Successful Corporate Innovation
Jul 29, 2025
216: How Austin is Innovation's Newest Hot Spot
Jul 22, 2025
215: How Microsoft Garage Harnesses the Innovative Power of 70,000
Jul 15, 2025
214: Does Corporate Innovation Actually Create Real Innovation?
Jul 08, 2025
213: How She Unlocked Incredible Process Innovation at Southwest Airlines & the DoD
Jul 01, 2025
212: NASA Retiree and Leader/Speaker on Open Innovation, Open Talent, and the Future of Work
Jun 24, 2025
211: How the Blue Horizons Is Innovating the USAF from the Inside Out
Jun 17, 2025
210: How Therapy Brands Hit a $1.25B Exit in Alabama And Grew the Innovation Ecosystem
Jun 10, 2025
209: How Stanford University Is Inspired By Nordic Sustainability Methods
Jun 02, 2025
208: How BIG Is Architecting Sustainable Structures from Earth to the Moon and Back Again
May 26, 2025
207: Beyond Profit: How Gen Z Leaders Are Creating a Circular & Sustainable
May 19, 2025
206: The Icelandic Blueprint: How Videntifier and NATO Innovation Fund Are Shaping a Safer, Smarter Future
May 12, 2025
205: Regulating the Future: Innovation, AI, and Global Tech Power
May 05, 2025
204: How Nordic Data Centers Supercharging New Energy Source to Power AI
Apr 28, 2025
203: How TOMRA is Rethinking the Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Paradigm
Apr 21, 2025
202: How Nordic Capitalism Prioritizes Profit and Climate for A More
Apr 14, 2025
201: How Global Hackathons are Accelerating Sustainable Tech
Apr 07, 2025
200: How To Turn Banking Customers Into Sustainability Champions
Mar 31, 2025
199: What the US Navy Can Teach us about Executive Leadership
Mar 25, 2025
198: How to Put Trust At the Center of People First Innovation Equation
Mar 18, 2025
197: How the Automotive Industry is Democratizing AI from the Technicians to the Top
Mar 11, 2025
196: What Innovators Can Learn from Music's Biggest R&B Breakthroughs
Mar 04, 2025
195: How HealthcarePoint is Using Big Data to Transform Clinical Trials
Feb 25, 2025
194: How Breakthroughs in Batteries are Supercharging the EV Revolution
Feb 18, 2025
193: How Siemens Transforms Its Culture to Drive Innovation Further
Feb 11, 2025
192: How The Resilience Plan Supports Innovation Leaders & Change Makers
Feb 04, 2025
191: How RTI International Builds a Global Culture of Innovation
Jan 29, 2025
190: How AXA's Risk Management Turns Impossible to NOW Possible
Jan 21, 2025
189: How Hershey's is Putting the Sweet and Salty in Product Innovation
Jan 14, 2025
188: How to Bridge the Gap Between Startups and Corporate Innovators
Jan 07, 2025
187: The Old and New Rules of Successful Innovation
Dec 31, 2024
186: How the WHO Innovation Hub is Changing Global Health Outcomes
Dec 24, 2024
185: What's the Future of Customer Experience with AI?
Dec 17, 2024
184: How Corning International is Manufacturing Innovation in New Markets
Dec 10, 2024
183: Taking Innovation Women to the Stages
Dec 03, 2024
182: How 17 Songs on the UN's SDGs and AY Young Will Save the Planet
Nov 26, 2024
181: How to Use AI in Innovation for Massive Productivity Gains
Nov 19, 2024
180: How ExxonMobil is Crushing Open Innovation
Nov 12, 2024
179: How Partnerships, Startups and Tech Are the Recipe Long Term Innovation
Nov 05, 2024
178: How Impact Frameworks will change Innovation
Oct 29, 2024
177: How the VA Taps Veterans to Spark Innovation
Oct 22, 2024
176: What Cleantech Storytelling at Deloitte Can Teach Us About Innovation
Oct 15, 2024
175: Creating a Halo Effect Around Innovation That Drives Real Value
Oct 08, 2024
174: How Verizon is Helping Doctors and Patients Tell a Healthier Innovation Story
Oct 01, 2024
173: The Art of Innovation Storytelling -- Making the Complex Simple
Sep 24, 2024
172: What PayPal Taught Us about Failing Fast and Fearlessly
Sep 17, 2024
171: How CMT Drives Consumer Safety with Breakthrough Telematics
Sep 10, 2024
170: How Redbox is Supercharging Your Creativity
Sep 03, 2024
169: Can Innovators Adopt a Global Standard for Innovation Systems Management?
Aug 27, 2024
168: How CNA Unlocked the Tools & Tactics to Accelerate Innovation
Aug 20, 2024
167: How to Use Fluid Thinking to Unleash Your Innovation Mind
Aug 13, 2024
166: How TIAA is Transforming Retirement into Longevity
Aug 06, 2024
165: From Uganda to Harvard, How the "Queen of Trash" is Changing the Environment
Jul 30, 2024
164: How IDEO and Kaiser Permanente Rethink Healthcare
Jul 23, 2024
163: How Sage Built their Innovation Academy from the Ground Up
Jul 16, 2024