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81: How to get 7.6 Billion People Onboard with Inclusive Innovation

81: How to get 7.6 Billion People Onboard with Inclusive Innovation

FromInnovation Storytellers


81: How to get 7.6 Billion People Onboard with Inclusive Innovation

FromInnovation Storytellers

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Length:
54 minutes
Released:
Nov 15, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Have you met innovators who, no matter where they go, have this uncanny ability to take a particular talent, skill, and vision with them? Today's guest, Zia Zaman, GM Business Development at Microsoft Asia, does all this and more. He also brings a sense of innovation to the world of inclusivity and brings these two things together beautifully. Listen in as we explore the world of innovation across multiple industries and continents. Zia shares with me about being inspired by the ESG efforts of Microsoft and the importance of surrounding yourself with people who are part of your tribe and people you can learn from that are from diverse backgrounds. We talk about Microsoft's mission to empower every organization and individual to achieve more. For Zia, this means improving healthcare, scaling financial inclusion, and reducing the risks around decarbonization in a purpose-driven role. Finally, we discuss working with a community of brilliant thinkers, from across the world, at the Aspen Institute.
Released:
Nov 15, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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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.