The LaunchStreet Journey

How to up your Elvis. You’ve probably had the experience of working in a team where everyone’s energy made the task at hand feel fun and easy. On the flip side, you might have encountered working with people who just exude negative energy, and that makes everything a challenge. The truth is, energy has a...

Insights from the King of Clarity in a world full of noise. I’ve always believed that communication is critical to innovation. If you have the best ideas in the world but nobody is listening, you can’t make a difference. Steve Woodruff, a.k.a., King of Clarity, joins me to dive into how best to get your...

  Genius is rare, but creativity is common. Did you know that being innovative is one of the most human things you can do? It is one of the fundamentally human things that we do all the time, but how are personality, intelligence, and creativity (or being innovative, as I like to call it) all...

  ‘Innovative solutions’ is a phrase that gets used a lot. But what exactly does that mean, and what does it take to stay ahead of the curve and not fall behind? How can you gauge a client’s appetite for innovation and disruption, and implement it in a way that allows for learning from failure?...

Find opportunity in patterns and major shifts. Technology is changing and moving extremely rapidly, particularly in the cybersecurity space, so how can you stay ahead of the curve? How do you find the opportunities in the gaps in constantly evolving industry, and create a business in these niches? Kristina Bergman, an expert in cybersecurity, has...

Empower your team to lead through intent-based leadership. How do you create a high-performing team where people are leaning into you as the leader, rather than you leaning into them? As a leader, what can you do to ensure you are creating an environment where your team thrives? There’s no better person to tap for...

Startup, scaleup, screwup In this episode, we’re diving into the three critical phases of innovation — startup, scaleup, and screwup. That’s not a mistake — repeat guest on the podcast, Jurgen Appelo, has authored his second book with just that title and he explains just what that means.   In the ‘startup’ phase, companies are...

Don't start with the product, start with the outcome. As a business, how do you figure out what your customers need, and how do you apply that customer-centric viewpoint to your internal processes so that it's infused into everything that you do? Jeff Gothelf joins me to dive into why it’s so important for us...

Brands as an active challenger of culture. In recent years, there has been a massive shift in the business world from brands and businesses being a passive stage for culture, to one where they are active challengers of culture. The role of business in people's personal lives is very different than it was — the...

Insights to apply to your own business. Today’s guest is not my usual kind of guest, but I have always believed in going wide and going deep in innovation. Looking outside our own backyard is sometimes necessary to avoid becoming too myopic in our outlook, which is why I have Marco Santarelli, real estate innovator,...