Naked Ambition Podcast Naked Ambition

In our latest ‘How They Did It’ podcast episode we speak with the Senior Manager of Innovation at Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre (MCEC), Katie Tinetti. Taking a huge hit to the events industry during the Covid Pandemic, MCEC were forced to develop creative solutions to presenting events. In a new era of innovation and collaboration in the events industry, we discuss MCEC’s recent innovation journey and Katie’s personal experience with Design Thinking, including:

• Rethinking how to do business in a hybrid environment and using this as an opportunity to adopt Agile working
• How MCEC are overcoming resource shortages, staff fluctuations and competing priorities in a post-covid world
• Working collaboratively with internal and external partners and the importance of building strong relationships with stakeholders
• The future of innovation at MCEC and how they’re building an innovative, future-focused centre in Geelong
• How Katie’s out of the box thinking landed her current role, and her
advice for people starting their own innovation journey

Katie is an experienced events specialist who has worked in the industry for over a decade. Currently the Senior Manager of Innovation at MCEC, she has also recently been appointed as Senior Manager (Commercial Lead) of the new Geelong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Focused on creativity and collaboration, Katie is passionate about business transformation and creating an impactful customer experience.

Follow Katie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-tinetti-74b2131b/
Follow us: www.linkedin.com/company/naked-ambition
www.naked-ambition.com.au

In our latest ‘How They Did It’ episode we speak with Maryborough District Health Service (MDHS)’s CEO, Nickola Allan, and Director of Infrastructure, Technology & Experience and Deputy CEO, David Edwards. An exciting new era for healthcare in the Maryborough community, Nickola and David have recently led MDHS through a period of significant organisational change, while overseeing a $100 million redevelopment project, due for completion in 2025.

We discuss:
• The approach the MDHS team took to understand patient and carer’s experiences, and the simple fixes that are making a big difference to ‘change the healthcare story’ at Maryborough Hospital and in the community
• Using the mantra of “appropriate care, appropriate place” to innovate new solutions for primary care patients
• The importance of customer service in the health industry and consistency in providing care and kindness to community members
• The strategic steps David & Nickola took to enhance staff experience and wellbeing in the wake of Covid-19
• Advice for leaders tackling organisational change, and the necessity of investing in your people and taking risks in innovation

As CEO of MDHS, Nickola Allan is excited to be playing a leading role in changing the healthcare story for communities in regional Victoria. With more than 20 years’ experience in public health in both metropolitan and rural health services, she has developed expertise in patient safety, risk management and improving outcomes and systems to keep abreast of changing demographics, environments, and technology.

A strategic leader in regional health, David Edwards is committed to finding new and innovative ways to use patient, client, and staff experience stories to drive change in clinical and non-clinical systems. His current role provides him with the opportunity to deliver large scale transformation through consumer and employee collaboration, using experience-driven systems, co-design, and data to provide unique insights and drive improvement in health services and infrastructure.

Follow Nickola: linkedin.com/in/nickola-allan-3001aaa5
Follow David: linkedin.com/in/david-edwards-72bb50110

Follow us: www.linkedin.com/company/naked-ambition
www.naked-ambition.com.au

In our latest podcast episode, we speak with Leslie Barry, the Founder and Director of Exponentially, where he uses the Google-developed method for de-risking innovation and shortening product development cycles called “Pretotyping”.

In this super practical episode, we talk about

• The origins of pretotyping and why it is different from prototyping
• Key pretotyping techniques and how you can use them to test hypotheses before product builds
• The ethics of customer experimentation and best practices for product testing
• Stories from the field – when to use the technique, and when not to!
• The complexities of including cash for commitment and price point testing during the pretotyping phase
• The future of pretotyping and how you can ‘pretotype the pretotype’ to start using this methodology in your own customer research

Working in the innovation space for over a decade, Leslie has headed Innovation at ThoughtWorks and Sportsbet, built four startups, sold two, and guest lectures on experimentation and pretotyping at Stanford University. He has trained over 800 pretotypers and 150 start-up and scale-up founders across the world, run over 1000 pretotypes, and saved organisations over $25 million by not building the wrong 'it'.

Follow Leslie on Twitter & Linkedin: @LeslieCBarry https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliebarry/
Follow Exponentially on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/think-exponentially
Check out the Exponentially website: https://www.exponentially.com/about
Check out Rapidly Software: https://www.testrapidly.com/
Join the Slack channel: https://www.exponentially.com/join-the-community
Pretotyping Online Training: https://www.exponentially.com/online-training

Follow us: www.linkedin.com/company/naked-ambition
www.naked-ambition.com.au

In this ‘How They Did It’ podcast episode we speak with the Head of Innovation Services at Allens, Liza Greenwood. At Allens, Liza leads strategic transformational programs for lawyers, focusing on innovation skills development and behavioural shifts – leading with the mindset of “getting better at getting better”. In an exciting time for law and innovation, we discuss the emergence of design thinking in the legal industry and new legal tech on the rise including:

• Overcoming time constraints, ‘lawyer mindset’ and perfectionist mentalities to curate a culture of collaborative innovation
• The importance of capability building – including an inspiring story of how one Junior lawyer taught a whole new group how to adopt design thinking
• The innovation time bank – an organisational incentive to breed creativity and change the culture on time constraints
• Some of the legal tech solutions being developed at Allens and how concepts could apply to other industries

Liza Greenwood has over 20 years' experience in the legal industry and specialises in innovation, strategy, change management and project management. Managing a team of innovation experts, she employs best practice methods (design thinking, lean startup and agile) to coach partners and lawyers to surface problems, discover solutions and deliver value to the firm and their clients.

Get in touch with Liza: liza.greenwood@allens.com.au
https://www.allens.com.au/people/this-is-allens/profile-liza-greenwood/

Follow us: www.linkedin.com/company/naked-ambition
www.naked-ambition.com.au

In this latest episode we speak with Jo Mikleus. As the Executive General Manager of Latitude’s Insurance business, Jo was appointed to lead the strategic design and future of the insurance business. Naked Ambition partnered with the team at Latitude to build the prototype of this entirely new offer over 7 months in 2021. We discuss how this project emerged and tell the story – the ups and downs – of what it takes to innovate like a start-up in an established business – including:

• The role of execs – hands on or hands off in exploratory innovation – and Jo’s advice for leaders here
• The impact of embedding customer data not just in the initial design, but ongoing iteration of the product
• The power of innovation visioning, thinking forward and back-casting to energise + focus teams during the enviable dips and ambiguity that come with new product development
• Using intelligent failure to learn and grow
• And why regulation in your industry could be the customer-focused constraint you need

Jo Mikleus has over 30 years’ experience as growth-focus leader, including in CEO Roles – spanning business, technology, and finacial services and in public, private and PE-backed companies. Before this role at Latitude Jo lead a range of large business at ANZ, co-founding the machine co-founding a machine learning company CorticAi and being the CEO of fast-growing data firm RUBIX.

Follow Jo: @JoMikleus
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jomikleus/

Follow us: @_nakedambition
www.naked-ambition.com.au

A political scientist and futurist, Professor Sohail Inayatullah is the co-host of Metafuture and its Online Futures School, an educational think tank that explores alternative and preferred futures and the worldviews and myths that underlie them. He is a Professor at Tamkang University, Taipei, and an Associate at Melbourne Business School, as well as the inaugural UNESCO Chair in Futures Studies. Passionate about future methodologies and theorising how the future is constructed, Professor Inayatullah works as a writer, lecturer, and consultant to help individuals and organisations transform the future.

In this latest podcast episode, Professor Inayatullah joins us to discuss all things future-thinking, including:

• What it means to be a futurist and how you can use future thinking to create your desired reality
• How COVID has forced businesses and individuals to change, and what realities could exist in the future due to the pandemic
• Some of the methodologists Professor Inayatullah uses and how organisations and governments can take action now to control the future
• The power of thinking ahead not just 50 years from now, but 500


Professor Inayatullah is the Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Futures Studies and on the editorial boards of Future, Prout Journal, East West Affairs, World Future Review and Foresight. He has published more than 350 journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia entries and magazine editorials, co-edited 25 books/CDs and has received the Laurel award for all-time best futurist by the Shaping Tomorrow Foresight Network. Continuing his work on shaping the future, Professor Inayatullah is the futurist-in-residence for 2021 with the government of Abu Dhabi, Culture and Tourism.

Learn more about Casual Layered Analysis with Professor Inayatullah’s Ted Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImWDmFPfifI

Follow Professor Inayatullah on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sohail-inayatullah-6b7b765/

Check out the Metafuture website: https://www.metafuture.org/

Metafuture Futures School: https://www.metafutureschool.org/

Follow us: @_nakedambition
www.naked-ambition.com.au