Amelia Schaffner MS, co-founder of the Emory University Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation where she built novel entrepreneurial culture, thinking, and initiatives, partnering with students, faculty, alumni, and the ecosystem. In this episode, they talk about empowering innovation through doubt, vulnerability, and disruption.
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Amelia Schaffner MS, is an Italian-born Innovation leader, culture-change driver, creative problem solver, and ecosystem connector. Currently, she is on a sabbatical, taking time to be creative and ask deeper life questions. Amelia sits on a few boards and advisories of organizations leading meaningful change, and is a frequent mentor - at accelerators like Techstars - to founders, especially the under-represented. Previously, Amelia was a senior Strategy principal at Accenture, a global consulting and IT firm, where she led a global Innovation initiative and was instrumental in visioning their Innovation architecture. She has been a contributor to the World Economic Forum, and is a frequent panelist on E&I conversations. In her personal life she enjoys deeper inquiry via philosophy, photography, poetry, language, and the wilderness: you can find her on Instagram at Z.Tasty.Life.
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Episode Guide:
0:00 - Intro
2:02 - What is innovation?
5:05 - Finding innovators in corporate ladders
7:00 - ROI: an anti-innovation
8:40 - Innovators and a 'messy desk'
10:06 - Dogmatic biases
11:42 - What isn't innovation?
15:32 - Innovation: Learning, Culture, People, and Improvement
17:05 - Innovation: a colonization
18:30 - Value in Cyclical Conversations
20:43 - Longevitiy thinking for companies
22:40 - Innovation: Shaping Careers
24:49 - Jobs, job descriptions: a springboard
27:32 - Advice for innovators
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