Innovation is creating a playground :: Colin Hunter

What is Innovation?

Colin Hunter, an Author, Mentor, Coach, and the Founder and CEO of Potential Squared shares takes on innovation in the field of VR and creating 'playgrounds' for his various clients

More about our guest:
Colin Hunter is an Author, Mentor, Coach, and the Founder and CEO of Potential Squared, an international business that specializes in creating playgrounds to disrupt the way people are led. Three areas of focus include: Building Leadership Capabilities, Strengthening Functional Capability, and guiding Innovative Cultures. He generates a lasting professional impact with those he works with and is renowned for being what they and he calls refreshingly direct, lighting inspirational fires to drive change.

He facilitates, mentors, and coaches individuals and teams in the areas of leadership presence, personal brand, change leadership, innovation, strategic dialogue, creating board-level influence, and earning a seat at the executive table. With the use of actors, cutting-edge virtual realities, and a new leadership framework, clients have shown award-winning differences in the ways they lead. He prides himself by practicing what he preaches with being wrong more and learning fast from it.

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Episode Guide:

01:58 - What Is Innovation?

3:03 - What is the "real problem"?

4:02 - An Anecdote: Ms. Brown

7:18 - The HUMAN user

8:56 - HUMAN influence

9:39 - Claridge's in London with Melman and Gloria

12:07 - Playgrounds

13:53 - Big Wet Fish Analogy

16:34 - (Really) Effective Actors

17:28 - Getting an Advisory board

21:15 - Joy and Healing: Episode 14

23:06 - 'Playgrounds' response to COVID

25:26 - 3H: Hugs, human interaction, house rental analogy

27:12 - Virtual reality at work and at home

29:26 - Perspective: a religious background

31:25 - Ship out of the harbor

35:35 - 'What does cycling give you?'

39:17 - Advice to innovators

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