21. Inteview with Steve Shapiro here

Steve Shapiro is an innovation author, consultant, speaker, and the Chief Innovation Evangelist for InnoCentive. Over the years, Steve has shared his innovative philosophy in books such as 24/7 Innovation, The Little Book of BIG Innovation Ideas and Goal-Free Living - a manifesto on how to increase your creativity by not being so hyper-focused on your goals. His work has been featured in Newsweek, Investor’s Business Daily, Entrepreneur Magazine, The New York Times, and other prestigious publications. His clients include Staples, GE, BP, Johnson & Johnson, Fidelity Investments, Nestlé, and Bristol-Myers Squibb. His latest creation is Personality Poker.

20. Inteview with Seth Kahan here

Seth Kahan, President of the Performance Development Group, Inc., writes for the Fast Company blog, Leading Change; is a regular contributor to the Washington Post's On Success; is the author of the book, Building Beehives: Creating Communities that Generate Returns and Getting Change Right: How Leaders Transform Organizations from the Inside Out. He works with visionaries and leaders of large, global initiatives, including leaders from World Bank, Peace Corps, and Shell among others. He also works with entrepreneurs and consultants who want to grow their business, doing creative things to enhance the world.

19. Interview with Sam Horn here

Sam Horn, known as America's Intrigue Expert, is an author, coach, keynoter, consultant, and creative communication strategist. As the originator of Tongue Fu! and POP! Sam has helped thousands of entrepreneurs and organizations crystallize and communicate innovative, one-of-a-kind ideas, approaches, products and services that helped them break out vs. blend in. Sam has been featured in Washington Post, NY Times, Chicago Tribune and Investors Business Daily; and has been interviewed on NPR, MSNBC, BusinessWeek.com and the Tonight Show. Her clients have included Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, NASA, KPMG, Boeing, IRS and Intel among others.

18. Interview with Doug Stevenson here

Doug Stevenson is Founder of All Creation, which provides creative services and content for businesses and organizations; Director of Business Development for Group Delphi, and Partner in The Innovise Guys, who infuse innovation with improvisation in their "Innovisation" (tm) processes. He works as an ideation catalyst, creative process designer, Creative Problem Solving (CPS) facilitator, writer and consultant on projects which include new product development, change management, process improvement, team building, leadership, marketing strategy and developing cultures of creativity in business and non-profits; and he leads workshops around the world.

17. Interview with Gregg Fraley here

Gregg Fraley is creativity and innovation practitioner; author of Jack’s Notebook, a highly endorsed business novel about creative problem solving; and Partner at The Innovise Guys - bridging innovation with improvisational comedy. He assists organizations with innovation initiatives and new product development, and blogs on innovation topics at greggfraley.com/blog. Gregg is an in-demand consultant, ideation facilitator and speaker whose ideation sessions have produced previously elusive breakthroughs and market leading products. Among his many roles, he's a leader and speaker at the annual Creative Problem Solving Institute (CPSI), and former board member of the Creative Education Foundation.

16. Interview with Julie Ann Turner here

Julie Ann Turner is Founder of CreatorsGuide.com and of Orbits of Influence, an award-winning global social innovation and leadership dialogue initiative. Julie Ann is Creator/Executive Producer and Co-Host of the lead CONSCIOUSSHIFT Show on Co-Creator Network, and a world authority on creative process and author of the 3-book Series, A Creator’s Guide: Principles, Process & Power to Transform Your Life, Work & World, which traces the universal principles and patterns of the Creative Process and reveals them in a system each of us may use to consciously create our lives, work and world.

15. Interview with Michael Gelb here

Michael Gelb is a leading authority on the application of genius thinking to personal and organizational development. He is the author of 12 books on creativity and innovation including the international best seller How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day and Innovate Like Edison: The Five Step System for Breakthrough Business Success. A pioneer in the fields of creative thinking and innovative leadership, he leads seminars for organizations such as DuPont, Merck, Microsoft, Nike, Raytheon and YPO. He just released his latest book, Wine Drinking For Inspired Thinking: Uncork Your Creative Juices.

14. Interview with Jay Rhoderick here

Jay Rhoderick is Founder and President of Bizprov, Inc., a dynamic corporate training consulting firm that uses the core principles of improvisational theater in business. Jay has taught improvisation to hundreds of managers, executives and professionals at all levels for fifteen years at many leading firms and organizations includuing Dow Jones, HSBC, Merck, Citigroup, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Pearlfisher, and the United States Olympic Committee and athletes among others. A seasoned improviser, Jay is a founder and performer with the legendary long-form improv NYC troupe, Centralia, which was recently recognized as Best Long Form group from Improvisation News.

13. Interview with Marci Segal here

Marci Segal, MS, author, speaker, consultant is CEO of Creativity Land, Inc. and co-founder of World Creativity and Innovation Week, April 15-21, which is now celebrated by people in over 100 businesses, schools and communities in more than 40 countries. She wrote Creativity and Personality Type: Tools for understanding and inspiring the many voices of creativity; a Quick Guide to the Four Temperaments and Creativity: A psychological understanding of Innovation, and contributed to The 16 Personality Types in Organizations. She's on the board of the American Creativity Association and is an active member of the Creative Education Foundation.

12. Interview with Frank Spencer here

Futurist Frank Spencer, is a Partner at KedgeForward an integrally-oriented foresight consulting firm. KedgeForward helps organizations to map out the landscape of their short-range "blue oceans" and create spaces for them to inhabit and realize their long-term "blue skies." Frank spent 15 years as a leadership coach and developer with social communities and networking initiatives, helping to create an online venture community dedicated to the advancement of human development, global innovation, and entrepreneurial collaboration among. He also holds a Master of Arts in Strategic Foresight. Clients have included Marriott, Mars, and Kraft among others.

11. Interview with Dan Pink here

Celebrated New York Times best-selling author, Dan Pink has written several provocative books about the changing world of work, including Drive, A Whole New Mind, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, and Free Agent Nation. Dan’s latest book, Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us  has been called “an integral addition to a growing body of literature calling for a radical shift in how businesses operate” (Kircus) and “a new model of motivation that offers tremendous insight into our deepest nature” (Publishers Weekly). A great read for anyone who wants to create or inspire an innovative work culture!

10. Interview with Robert Richman here

Robert Richman is Product Manager of Zappos Insights. Through service and culture, Zappos built a billion dollar business that Amazon recently acquired. Zappos Insights is the division that teaches other companies how to create great service and culture. Before landing at Zappos, Robert was a successful serial entrepreneur: he was co-founder of the Affinity Lab in Washington, DC, a renowned creative workspace for entrepreneurs; started a print magazine from scratch; and served as the online marketer and leadership coach.

9. Interview with Michael Margolis here

Michael Margolis is President of Get Storied and author of Believe Me: a storytelling manifesto for change-makers  and innovators - 15 storytelling axioms that will help you re-think how you must communicate your work, especially in this new adaptive age. Michael advises businesses, nonprofits, and entrepreneurs on how to get others to believe in their story. Taking a storied approach has direct impact on the bottom line by turning current and potential customers into true-believers - and then anything becomes possible.

8. Interview with Jeff Klein here

Jeff Klein is CEO of Cause Alliance Marketing, producers of collaborative, cause-related marketing programs. He also serves as Executive Director for Conscious Capitalism, Inc. (a.k.a. FLOW) through which he facilitates Conscious Business™, Peace Through Commerce®, and Accelerating Women Entrepreneurs™ Alliances, working with Thunderbird School For Global Management, U.S. Special Operations Command, and the Business Roundtable Ethics Institute. Jeff wrote his new book, Working for Good: Making a Difference While Making a Living for innovative entrepreneurs and organizational change agents wanting to thrive by doing good.

7. Interview with Dr. Win Wenger here

Win Wenger, PhD, is a pioneer in the fields of creativity and creative method, accelerated learning, and brain and mind development. Dr. Wenger is an educator, researcher, trainer, musical composer, and widely published author. He is renowned around the world as a trainer and author of 52 books, including the widely popular The Einstein Factor and Discovering the Obvious. He founded Project Renaissance, an organization dedicated to increasing individuals' genius. Only one other living person has invented or discovered, and developed, as many techniques for creative problem-solving as he has.

6. Interview with Russ Schoen here

Russ Schoen is a partner at New and Improved, LLC; adjunct faculty member at the Center for Studies in Creativity; contributing author to innovation-related materials including the Foursight and Ingenious Thinking suite; and improv theater performer. For the past 11 years, Russ has helped entrepreneurs, teams and organizations adopt a mindset, toolset and skillset to unleash creative behavior. He has delivered creativity, innovation and leadership programs worldwide for clients such as Discover, International Fragrance & Flavors, S.C. Johnson and  Leo Burnett. In addition, Russ is co-founder of the Creative Youth Leadership Academy.

5. Interview with Brian Robertson here

Brian Robertson is the pioneer of holacracy, a new organizational operating system noted for dramatically increasing agility, transparency, innovation and accountability. Brian's initial development of holacracy took place at an award-winning software company he founded and led as CEO for 6 years, which served as a test bed for new methods of organizing and working together. The resulting system, named holacracy, made its debut in 2006 in a prominent article in the Wall Street Journal. Holacracy continues to evolve as HolacracyOne, co-founded by Robertson, to further develop the method and bring it to the world. It is being applied by organizations and organizational consultants all over the world.

4. Interview with Larry Blumsack here

Larry Blumsack is founder and director of Zoka Institute, a creativity and innovation consulting, training, and coaching company. Informing his work is over 40 years as a serial entrepreneur/business leader and as a "creative" - he has owned several businesses; worked in marketing, sales and television; is a founding member of the theater dept. at Northeastern University; and a syndicated critic, columnist and commentator on the arts for American radio, TV and print outlets and more. Having in depth experience with both creative and business cultures, Blumsack teaches business organizations how to build creative cultures within their organizations, and individuals how to tap into their own creativity.

3. Interview with Dr. Stan Gryskiewicz here

Dr. Stan Gryskiewicz. is an international authority in leadership, creativity, innovation and change management and the author of Positive Turbulence: Developing Climates for Creativity, Innovation and Renewal; Senior Fellow at the Center for Creative Leadership; and founder and CEO of the pioneering 30-year learning community, Association for Managers of Innovation.

2. Interview with Mike Bonifer here

Mike Bonifer is the co-founder of GameChangers, and author of GameChangers: Improvisation for Business in the Networked World. He writes about and teaches improvisation for business. He's heGamechangersbooklped clients such as Disney, Universal Studios, Frito-Lay, Merril Lynch, DreamWorks and MBA programs to evolve their processes and brands to better participate in the global economy.

1. Interview with Paul Scheele here






Paul Scheele, founding partner of Learning Strategies Corporation, chairman of Natural Brilliance Productions, and founding member of the distinguished Transformational Leadership Council, is an accomplished author, speaker, and consultant in the area of human Brilliancebookdevelopment, the brain, learning and creativity, transformation, and leadership. The following are his thoughts on business creativity, creative leadership, and the emerging business paradigm.