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Every company says it wants innovation, launches a program, and watches it quietly die. This talk reveals why — the organizational immune system that rejects even the change an organization needs — and the counterintuitive way insiders get past it. Practical, story-driven, and grounded in a decade of doing the work. For a broad leadership audience..

The idea at the center of my work: the bottleneck to innovation is never a shortage of ideas or talent, but the missing routes that let them travel. Audiences leave able to spot the missing pathways in their own organization — and with the confidence that anyone, at any level, can start building them.

A session almost no one else can offer: I teach the Ivey Business School case study written about my own work — “Boehringer Ingelheim: Leading Innovation” — and then reveal what the case leaves out: what actually happened next, what worked, and what it cost. For corporate leadership teams, executive-education programs, and business schools.