Members-Only Meetings

We regularly convene IL members for discussions on topics of interest — which members suggest. These meetings take place on Zoom, and they are designed to be candid conversations among peers, as opposed to passive webcasts. If you’re a current IL member and are logged in, you will see a short registration form (or calendar links) beneath the description of each meeting. We always like to hear suggestions for future meeting topics from our members.

For a complete calendar of all of our in-person and online gatherings, please visit our events page.

Wednesday, September 23rd at 12 PM ET: Building Strategy + Innovation Capabilities (at a 198-Year Old Insurance Carrier)

In this session, Andrew Morse, AVP of Innovation at The Andover Companies, shares how he built an innovation function from scratch at a 198-year-old mutual insurance carrier — growing from a team of two with no process (and colleagues asking “what does innovation even do?”) to an award-winning team of five embedded in the company’s most important initiatives.

You’ll learn how to:

• Earn credibility fast by solving the business’s real, current-day problems before chasing transformational “horizon 3” ideas
• Pivot from an outside-in to an inside-out model — and why solving core problems earns you the right to look to the horizon
• Build innovation capabilities one at a time (human-centered design, culture, solution scouting, strategic foresight) instead of launching everything at once
• Spread an innovation mindset beyond the core team through challenges, rotational programs, and involving business units at every step
• Bring outside perspective in via VC partnerships and peer networking
• Turn strategic foresight into real planning decisions — not just presentations — with foresight-led workshops and a multi-year organizational roadmap.