All IL Resources

Resource Vibe Entrepreneurship: Building Prototypes, Not PowerPoints
August 17, 2026
Video from our July 2026 members' meeting focused on "vibe entrepreneurship" and intrapreneurship.
Resource Innovation Storytelling: Bridge Divides and Win Support for Your Breakthrough Ideas
April 30, 2026
Video from our April 2026 members' meeting featuring Susan Lindner, the host of the podcast Innovation Storytellers and a keynote speaker and trainer focused on teaching storytelling skills.
Resource Customer Experience in Disruptive Times
March 31, 2026
Video from our March 2026 members' meeting featuring Curtis Kopf, an innovation executive with experience working at Insulet, REI, Amazon, and Alaska Airlines, among others.
Resource The ‘10 Commandments of Innovation,’ according to Moisés Noreña
January 20, 2026
Video from our January 2026 members' meeting featuring Moisés Noreña, Head of Product and Innovation at MiTek.
Resource How Innovation Happens at Nike
December 15, 2025
Insights about how Nike pursues innovation, from a December 2025 member meeting with Jordan Rice, COO of Nike Innovation.
Resource Innovation Progress: Geopolitical Risks
December 3, 2025
This Innovation Progress Report template is designed for heads of innovation or R&D to track and manage innovation programs, R&D, digital initiatives, and emerging technology projects specifically in the context of supply-chain fragility.
Resource ‘Extreme Shipping’ with George Leimer of Yahoo
November 14, 2025
Video from our November 2025 members' meeting featuring George Leimer, GM of Yahoo! Finance and former Head of Product and Technology of Yahoo! Sports.
Resource Video Case Study: Rapid Prototyping with GenAI
September 15, 2025
Video from our September 2025 members' meeting, on building new product offerings and experiences with generative AI at Harvard Business Review and Harvard Business School.
Resource Innovation Progress: Supply Chain Risks
September 3, 2025
This Innovation Progress Report template is designed for heads of innovation or R&D to track and manage innovation programs, R&D, digital initiatives, and emerging technology projects specifically in the context of supply-chain fragility.
Resource Innovation Progress: Macroeconomic Risks
August 7, 2025
This Innovation Progress Report template is designed for heads of innovation and R&D to track innovation, R&D, digital initiatives, and emerging technology programs under current inflationary and macroeconomic pressures.
Resource H&M Innovation Chief on Scaling Experiments, AI, Emerging Trends
July 25, 2025
Our July 2025 members' meeting featured Jo Hickson, Director of Innovation at Stockholm-based retailer H&M Group, and the former head of Tesco Labs. Video and notes inside...
Resource Leveraging Internal & External Data for Agentic AI Use Cases
July 2, 2025
One of the featured speakers at our 2025 "AI Build Day" event was Abhi Yadav, co-founder of AI Innovators Community. He focused on the challenge of having good data for agentic AI systems to access, otherwise AI can't deliver good insights and results. We've got slides and video from his...
Resource Top 25 AI Unicorns: A Sampling of Their Enterprise customers
June 30, 2025
This Excel spreadsheet provides a sample of large enterprises working with the top 25 AI "unicorn" startups, including ChatGPT, X.ai, Harvey, Hugging Face, and more.
Resource Wayfair: Elevating the Customer Experience with AI
June 25, 2025
One of the featured speakers at our 2025 “AI Build Day” event was Matt Herman of the e-commerce site Wayfair, who talked about the four key areas where Wayfair is applying AI to improve the customer experience. Includes video of his talk.
Resource 5 Things to Know About AI in June 2025
June 23, 2025
One of the opening speakers at our 2025 “AI Build Day” event was Jen Stave, the Chief Operator at Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute. Video of her talk is available to InnoLead members, as are the slides in PPT form.
Resource Overview of the Generative AI Coding Landscape
June 9, 2025
In this PDF download created in June 2025, Curtis Michelson takes a deep dive into how people are using generative AI coding tools; the risks and potential return on investment; some of the most popular and powerful platforms; and a few of the open questions about where this all goes.
Resource Better GenAI Prompting, No Matter What Platform You Use
May 15, 2025
Replay of our May 2025 members' meeting, featuring Curtis Michelson focusing on how to enhance prompt effectiveness and apply metaprompting.
Resource Avoid the ‘Doom Loop’ and Create More Predictable Winners
April 4, 2025
How can innovators beat the odds and create more winners? Stuart Jackson and Ilya Trakhtenberg, co-authors of Predictable Winners, share strategies to improve success rates, avoid pitfalls, and manage uncertainty in this replay of our April 2025 members-only meeting.
Resource AI Assistants: An Insider’s Guide
March 17, 2025
Replay of our March 2025 members' meeting, featuring Michael Hayes from PracticalAI talking about an array of AI assistants.
Resource Is There a Career Path for Corporate Innovators?
February 28, 2025
Highlights from a February 2025 InnoLead members' meeting on career paths, featuring veterans of Clorox, Fidelity Investments, Allstate, Whirlpool, HSBC, PA Consulting, and GM.