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.
Data, Templates, and Resource Library
Here you’ll find actual documents used by our members — including templates, spreadsheets, powerpoint slides, project documents, and more — from innovation executives at large companies like Coca-Cola, Target, Intel, Disney, Marriott, Nike, Starbucks, Procter & Gamble, and many others. Choose the category “InnoLead Resources” to see those created by InnoLead, in collaboration with former executives at Pfizer, Transamerica, Keurig Dr Pepper, VMware, BNY Mellon, and other companies. That category also includes data visualizations from many of our recent research reports.
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- AI Policies, Slides, and Job Descriptions
- Culture, Personnel, and Org Structure
- Data Visualizations
- Events, Contests, and Competitions
- Frameworks & Models
- InnoLead Resources
- Job Descriptions
- Labs & Centers
- Metrics & Scorecards
- Processes & Methodologies
- Strategy Presentations
- Templates
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Innovation Storytelling: Bridge Divides and Win Support for Your Breakthrough Ideas- Customer Experience in Disruptive TimesVideo from our March 2026 members’ meeting featuring Curtis Kopf, an innovation executive with experience working at Insulet, REI, Amazon, and Alaska Airlines, among others.
- The ‘10 Commandments of Innovation,’ according to Moisés NoreñaVideo from our January 2026 members’ meeting featuring Moisés Noreña, Head of Product and Innovation at MiTek.
CULTURE, PERSONNEL, AND ORG STRUCTURE
- Boeing Internal Innovation CommunicationsHow do you effectively communicate innovations to an employee base that spans 170,000 employees in 65 countries around the world? At Boeing, the answer lies in an internal innovation newsletter called “Innovation Quarterly.”
- Options for Innovation Org Structure, Process, and MeasurementCreated inside publicly-traded companies, this PowerPoint deck lays out various options for setting up innovation organizations; defining roles; creating processes and pipelines for moving projects forward; and measuring outcomes.
- The Role of Design and UX on an Innovation TeamFive-page PowerPoint document created to help an innovation group define roles related to design, including UX (user experience), and assess the skill sets of individuals.
EVENTS, CONTESTS, AND COMPETITIONS
- Ford Mobility Challenge: Process and ApproachOverview of a mobility innovation contest was by Ford in collaboration with the City of Austin to crowdsource innovative solutions that improve mobility — especially access to health services, food, education, and essential amenities.
- Generative AI Tournament OverviewThe construction and engineering firm Black & Veatch launched an internal tournament in 2023 to spur employees to explore potential ways they might employ generative AI. This slightly-genericized PowerPoint deck provides and overview of the tournament’s objectives; rules; and judging process.
- Caliber Public Safety: Hackathon FlyerHackathon overview, definition, and agenda, from a technology solutions company.
FRAMEWORKS & MODELS
- PepsiCo Innovation Use CasesThe $92 billion food and beverage giant PepsiCo created this fantastic, clear, concise format for describing specific areas of opportunity for innovation.
- PepsiCo Labs Approach to Pilots2025 PDF on the PepsiCo Labs model for delivering End-to-End Program Pilots.
- Options for Innovation Org Structure, Process, and MeasurementCreated inside publicly-traded companies, this PowerPoint deck lays out various options for setting up innovation organizations; defining roles; creating processes and pipelines for moving projects forward; and measuring outcomes.
INNOVATION LEADER RESOURCES
- Innovation Storytelling: Bridge Divides and Win Support for Your Breakthrough IdeasVideo 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.
- Customer Experience in Disruptive TimesVideo from our March 2026 members’ meeting featuring Curtis Kopf, an innovation executive with experience working at Insulet, REI, Amazon, and Alaska Airlines, among others.
- The ‘10 Commandments of Innovation,’ according to Moisés NoreñaVideo from our January 2026 members’ meeting featuring Moisés Noreña, Head of Product and Innovation at MiTek.
JOB DESCRIPTIONS
- Citigroup: Startup Coach Job DescriptionJob description for a Singapore-based position at Citi Ventures — a D10X Startup Coach and Entrepreneur-in-Residence who will play “a critical role in the D10X program by helping the D10X startup teams keep their ‘eye on the prize’, providing an outside-in perspective, staying true to the D10X process and generally contributing to…
- Disney: Director of Technologies, Innovation EnablementJob description for a role at Disney that will “be responsible for establishing this new function through the development of strategies for the Emerging Technologies portfolio, and facilitating the delivery of innovative projects from ideation through implementation.”
- ECMC Group: Director of Innovation Job DescriptionA short description outlining the responsibilities of the director of innovation at ECMC Group, one of 35 Federal Family Education Loan Program Guarantors.
LABS & CENTERS
- Overview of Ford’s FordX Venture IncubatorThis 15-slide PowerPoint deck offers an overview of the venture incubator’s reason for existence; its areas of focus; and some of the projects it worked on during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
- PTC: Comic Book About Augmented RealityThis comic book lays out how augmented reality may be used in the workplace — both on tablets and on glasses. Shows how future visions can be communicated, outside the realm of PowerPoint.
- Gensler: Everything You’d Ever Want (or Never Want) in an Innovation HubAn innovation hub is a distinct environment strategically designed and actively nurtured to promote a way of working that is fundamentally different from an organization’s norm. (Some call them labs, centers, accelerators, or incubators.) But not all innovation hubs are created equal. InnoLead and Gensler, the design and architecture firm, teamed up…
METRICS & SCORECARDS
- Innovation Progress: Geopolitical RisksThis 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.
- Innovation Progress: Supply Chain RisksThis 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.
- Innovation Progress: Macroeconomic RisksThis 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.
PROCESSES & METHODOLOGIES
- Digital Transformation in Large MultinationalsPowerPoint presentation delivered in 2022 by Alexandru Darie, a veteran of Schneider Electric, Signify, Sensata, and Phillips Lighting. Provides insights and best practices for digital transformation; lean startup; discovery-based planning; agile; and scrum teams.
- Open Innovation at NASAIncludes great content on making the case for open innovation; dealing with intellectual property concerns; and examples of challenges NASA has conducted and solutions/technologies it has found.
- PepsiCo Labs Approach to Pilots2025 PDF on the PepsiCo Labs model for delivering End-to-End Program Pilots.
STRATEGY PRESENTATIONS
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals: R&D Day Slide DeckGood PDF overview of the product pipeline at the publicly-held pharma company Alnylam, including an agenda for R&D Day; overview of current partnerships; and emphasis on future growth drivers for the company.
- Minerals Technologies: Innovation Day Slide DeckThis 2024 “Innovation Day” presentation focuses on Minerals Technologies Inc., a $2.2 billion specialty minerals company, and how its technologies and product lines drive growth.
- Nestlé: Accelerating growth with ‘fewer, bigger, better’ innovationsThis 2024 deck explains how Nestlé is focusing on a “fewer, bigger, better” approach to innovation and marketing, prioritizing impactful projects, strategic investments, and consumer-centric value propositions.
TEMPLATES
- Scoping Opportunities, Fleshing Out Concepts, and Doing Customer ResearchCreated inside publicly-traded companies, this short PowerPoint deck collects worksheets, templates, and “cheat sheets” related to evaluating opportunities, fleshing out concepts, and conducting customer research.
- Idea Canvas for Evaluating and Testing New IdeasAdapted from the Business Model Canvas to better fit the needs of the corporate world, this Idea Canvas allows you to follow a high-level scientific process when evaluating ideas and then use the criteria from the Idea Canvas when testing or validating that idea. Developed by a Senior Director working in the…
- WD-40: Project Management GuideLots of definitions and templates related to the project management process at WD-40.
