85: Finding Catalysts & Fighting Burnout in Innovation

Many innovators have an insatiable thirst for information and are continuously connecting the dots and learning how they can change the world. Shannon Lucas, Co-Founder, and Co-CEO of Catalyst Constellations has not only walked this path, but she has also written a book about it to help others feel better understood, connected, and supported throughout their innovation processes. In this week's episode of The Innovation Storytellers Show, Shannon discusses the importance of not creating an ivory tower of innovation in an organization and how to identify those who are doing innovative work in their areas. We explore how something magical happens when you bring a diverse range of people from across multiple departments together, bringing transformational projects to life. Shannon also shares her inspirational story about innovation and how being intentional and taking the time to slow down can help innovation teams move faster.

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Did you ever wonder how an innovation got to its finish line? How innovators saw the future, made a product, and created change – in our world and in their companies? I did. Innovation Storytellers invites changemakers to describe how they created their innovation and just as important – THE STORIES – that made us fall in love with them. Come learn how great innovations need great stories to make them move around the world and how to become a better storyteller in the process. I’m Susan Lindner, the Innovation Storyteller. But I wasn’t always. I’ve been a wannabe revolutionary, an epidemiologist at the CDC and an AIDS educator in the brothels of Thailand helping to turn former sex workers into entrepreneurs. Trained as an anthropologist and the Founder of Emerging Media, I’ve spent the last twenty years working with innovators from 60+ countries. Ranging from cutting edge startups to Fortune 100 companies like GE, Corning, Citi, Olayan, and nine foreign governments, helping their leaders to tell their stories and teaching them how to become incredible advocates for their innovations. Great innovation stories make change possible. They let us step into a future we can’t see yet. I started this podcast to shine a light on our generation of great innovators, to learn how they brought their innovation to life and the stories they told to bring them to the world.