Total Innovation Podcast

The Infinite Loop

Welcome to "Total Innovation," the podcast where I explore all the different aspects of innovation, transformation and change. From the disruptive minds of startup founders to the strategic meeting rooms of global giants, I bring you the stories of change-makers. The podcast will engage with different voices, and peer into the multi-faceted world of innovation across and within large organisations. I speak to those on the ground floor, the strategists, the analysts, and the unsung heroes who make innovation tick. From technology breakthroughs to cultural shifts within companies, I'm on a quest to understand how innovation breathes new life into business. I embrace the diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, and experiences that inform and drive the corporate renewal and evolution from both sides of the microphone. The Total Innovation journey will take you through the challenges, the victories, and the lessons learned in the ever-evolving landscape of innovation. Join me as we explore the narratives of those shaping the market, those writing about it, and those doing the hard work. This is "Total Innovation," where every voice counts and every story matters.  Brought to you by The Infinite Loop – Where Ideas Evolve, Knowledge Flows, and Innovation Never Stops. Powered by Wazoku, helping to Change the World, One Idea at a Time. 

  1. 47. Martin Eriksson: The Decision Stack: How Strategic Alignment Unlocks Organizational Momentum

    6D AGO

    47. Martin Eriksson: The Decision Stack: How Strategic Alignment Unlocks Organizational Momentum

    Martin Eriksson has spent three decades helping organisations figure out why they're stuck — and what to do about it. He's been building digital products since 1994, built SaaS before anyone called it SaaS, and has worked his way through companies of every size and stage: The Financial Times, Monster, Huddle, Covestor, Cazoo, and most recently as Product Partner at EQT, one of the world's largest private investors. Along the way, he's advised over 150 companies on the thing most of them were missing: not better tools or frameworks, but the connective tissue between their strategy and the people doing the work. Today, Martin works as a board member, strategic advisor, and leadership coach — helping founders, CEOs, and product leaders build the clarity their organisations need to move at pace. His most recent book, The Decision Stack: How Strategic Alignment Unlocks Organizational Momentum, distils everything he's learned about what it actually takes to align an organisation from vision to execution. As the founder of ProductTank, co-founder of Mind the Product — together, the world's largest product community, active in over 200 cities — and co-author of Product Leadership (O'Reilly, 2017), he has helped define the product management discipline and shaped the practices of a generation of product leaders.

    47 min
  2. 46. Vladislav Belousov: How to be a successful solver

    APR 21

    46. Vladislav Belousov: How to be a successful solver

    Vladislav grew up in Russia. He left to pursue a doctorate in Italy. He has worked in industrial automation, certified himself across robotics and control systems, served an internship at Bosch Rexroth, and built a career working on the kind of complex engineering problems that most people would find impenetrable. And then, sometime in 2024, he heard a rumour. About a place — almost mythical in the telling of it — where companies with genuinely hard problems would post them openly, and pay strangers to solve them. He was suspicious. He went looking anyway. And then he won. Three times. On problems ranging from glass recycling robotics in Italy, to crop protein vulnerability at elevated temperatures for the Gates Foundation, to reinforcing underground electrical substations. Three wins, from a standing start, in under two years.

    55 min
  3. 45. Fernanda Torre: Governing in the Age of AI and Sustainability:

    APR 14

    45. Fernanda Torre: Governing in the Age of AI and Sustainability:

    Fernanda Torre is a recognized expert in sustainability-driven innovation and CEO of the consultancy Next Agents, whose mission is to create value for people and the planet—both now and into the future. She is also the co-founder of One Global Action, an international initiative that fosters capacity-building and collaborative innovation to tackle major sustainability and ESG challenges. Fernanda serves as Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of the Boards Impact Forum, the Nordic chapter of the World Economic Forum’s Climate Governance Initiative, where she co-leads training programs on Board Oversight of Sustainability and Responsible AI for Value Creation. She is the co-author of the book AI Leadership for Boards: Leading Responsible AI for Value Creation, published by Springer Nature, which explores how boards can shape innovation, risk oversight, and strategic renewal in an AI-powered world. Fernanda is affiliated with the House of Innovation at the Stockholm School of Economics and teaches at the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship (SSES), where she leads programs on strategic innovation, foresight, and entrepreneurship. With an award-winning background in graphic and experience design, she has worked across industries and institutions, including Stora Enso, the Stockholm Resilience Centre, and Karolinska Institutet. She holds an MBA with distinction (President’s List) from SSE, an MFA in Experience Design from Konstfack, and a BA in Graphic Design from the University of Porto.

    49 min
  4. 44. Sonia Ferreira: Inside Maersk’s Innovation Ecosystem

    APR 7

    44. Sonia Ferreira: Inside Maersk’s Innovation Ecosystem

    Sonia is a global executive, board member and strategic advisor with over 20 years of experience across Europe, USA, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Bringing a blend of commercial strategy, technology leadership and innovation expertise, with a focus on enterprise-level decision-making, long-term value creation and responsible growth. She's led and overseen digital transformation, product innovation and global commercial initiatives across multiple industries, supporting organizations as they navigate scale, complexity, risk and disruption. Contributes a forward-looking perspective on innovation, AI, sustainability and ecosystem partnerships, grounded in practical experience operating across mature and emerging markets. Sonia serves ona number of boards and advisory councils including Stanford Seed, Harvard Business Review and the European Innovation Council, contributing to governance, strategy, and long-term value creation across global organizations.. Recognized for sound judgment, constructive challenge and the ability to operate effectively at board level across cultures and geographies.

    42 min
  5. 43. Marta Jakab: Aligning Strategy, Innovation, and AI

    MAR 31

    43. Marta Jakab: Aligning Strategy, Innovation, and AI

    Marta started her journey in innovation in 1998 as the product manager of the first idea management platform, which became a market leader and served global customers such as Pfizer, Cargill, Belgacom and many more, to which she also consulted on innovation best practices. Subsequently, Marta moved into corporate technology consulting, then back again into innovation management with a Spanish startup. For the past six years, Marta served as a Strategy and Innovation manager at NatWest bank, where she implemented an intrapreneurship programme and oversaw the delivery of enterprise-grade AI innovation solutions. Outside work, Marta is interested in social innovation and robotics. She currently lives in Edinburgh with her family.

    56 min
  6. 42. Robyn Bolton: The Value Gap: How Leaders Unlock Real Innovation

    MAR 24

    42. Robyn Bolton: The Value Gap: How Leaders Unlock Real Innovation

    Robyn Bolton works with leaders of medium and large businesses to help them navigate uncertainty and confidently grow revenue. At MileZero, she has worked with companies including Medtronic, Ariadne Labs, and Teachers Pay Teachers to transform deep customer insights into viable businesses. She has also worked with organizations including Alexion, Sanofi, and The Cable Center to build their innovation capabilities and cultures. Prior to founding MileZero, Robyn was a Partner at Innosight, the innovation and growth strategy consulting firm founded by Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen. She served Global 1000 companies, nonprofits, and startups in industries including healthcare, retail and apparel, and consumer packaged goods. Her teams collaborated closely with clients like Nike, Ahold USA, and Nestle to identify new markets, design and launch new business models, build innovation structures and processes. After earning her MBA at Harvard Business School, she worked as a consultant and project leader for The Boston Consulting Group in both Boston and Copenhagen Denmark.

    42 min
  7. 41. Tom Staley: Why Open Innovation Still Fails – and How the Best Organisations Are Finally Making It Work

    MAR 17

    41. Tom Staley: Why Open Innovation Still Fails – and How the Best Organisations Are Finally Making It Work

    Recognised as a Trusted Advisor, Tom works across the Public, Private and Defence Sectors, enabling organisations to establish the foundations to innovate, while leverage the capabilities of a diverse partner ecosystem; from startups to hyperscalers, in order to experiment, scale and commercialise new solutions. Tom is a member of the British Standards Institute (BSI) committee for Innovation Management, and is actively contributing to the ISO 56000 series of Innovation Management standards.

    41 min
  8. 40. Susanna Laurson: The Edge Advantage: Building Innovation from the Faroe Islands

    MAR 12

    40. Susanna Laurson: The Edge Advantage: Building Innovation from the Faroe Islands

    Súsanna Laursen is one of the driving forces behind the Faroe Islands' emerging innovation ecosystem. Based in Tórshavn, she works at Hugskotið — the Islands' startup incubator, founded in 2014 by the municipality of Tórshavn — where she supports early-stage founders and helps shape an environment where bold ideas can take root in one of the world's most remote and distinctive places. In eight years working in the ecosystem, she has seen Hugskotið support over 200 companies, the launch of FarBAN (the Faroe Business Angels Network), and growing interest from international investors who are increasingly paying attention to what's being built here. Súsanna is also co-founder of TONIK itself — the event you're at right now. TONIK was born out of a conviction that a small island nation doesn't have to think small. By blending technology, art, and meaningful human connection against the backdrop of the Faroese landscape, TONIK has become a gathering that draws founders, investors, and creative thinkers from across the Nordics and beyond — and sends them home with new collaborations, new friendships, and a new understanding of what's possible at the edge of the world. Her work is rooted in a simple but powerful idea: that the same qualities that make the Faroe Islands distinctive — resourcefulness, creativity, the habit of wearing many hats, and the necessity of solving your own problems — are precisely the qualities that make great innovators.

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Welcome to "Total Innovation," the podcast where I explore all the different aspects of innovation, transformation and change. From the disruptive minds of startup founders to the strategic meeting rooms of global giants, I bring you the stories of change-makers. The podcast will engage with different voices, and peer into the multi-faceted world of innovation across and within large organisations. I speak to those on the ground floor, the strategists, the analysts, and the unsung heroes who make innovation tick. From technology breakthroughs to cultural shifts within companies, I'm on a quest to understand how innovation breathes new life into business. I embrace the diversity of thoughts, backgrounds, and experiences that inform and drive the corporate renewal and evolution from both sides of the microphone. The Total Innovation journey will take you through the challenges, the victories, and the lessons learned in the ever-evolving landscape of innovation. Join me as we explore the narratives of those shaping the market, those writing about it, and those doing the hard work. This is "Total Innovation," where every voice counts and every story matters.  Brought to you by The Infinite Loop – Where Ideas Evolve, Knowledge Flows, and Innovation Never Stops. Powered by Wazoku, helping to Change the World, One Idea at a Time. 

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  • Creator
    The Infinite Loop
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    48
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 Total Innovation Podcast
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