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Creative Velocity: The Innovator Interview with Pat Copeland (opens the original)
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I met Pat Copeland when we both worked at Amazon Ads. Pat is currently GM of Moloco Commerce Media and serves on the Board of Trustees at Harvey Mudd College. What inspires me about Pat is that he’s not just a great technology leader. He’s also an extremely talented artist. He is endlessly curious and enjoys exploring everything from astrophotography to medieval English literature.That combination of technologist, education “omnivore”, and practicing artist makes Pat an especially interesting pe
Creative Velocity: The Innovator Interview with Scott Belsky (opens the original)
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[When I wrote “Creative Velocity”, I included an interview in each of the ten chapters with people I encountered across my career who inspired me to grow as a creative thinker. My publisher limited each interview to five of the ten questions I asked each person. But over the coming weeks, I’ll be sharing the complete interviews here.]At the heart of my interview with Scott Belsky, former Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Product Officer at Adobe and now a partner at A24, is the abund
Customer care is the ultimate training ground for creative problem-solving. (opens the original)
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I recently had three horrible customer service experiences with three different companies. (As prices have gone up, service quality seems to have gone down.). My first bad experience was with an appliance retailer. The second was with a pool maintenance company, the third was with a smart bed manufacturer, and the fourth was with a luxury resale marketplace. None of the interactions involved AI agents or chatbots, but they might as well have, given the near-total lack of problem-solving.Much lik
Creative Velocity Conversations: Coaches Collection with Dr. Cynthia Bentzen-Mercer. (opens the original)
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In this episode of What If? with Leslie Grandy, I sit down with Dr. Cynthia Bentzen-Mercer, human capital strategist, executive coach, and author of Human Capital Investment Strategy, to explore a fundamental shift happening inside organizations:Agency is no longer optional. It’s required.As AI reshapes work—automating execution, accelerating analysis, and leveling access to information—the rules of value creation are changing. Effort alone is no lo
Creative Velocity Conversations: Coaches Collection with Hortense le Gentil (opens the original)
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This week’s edition of the Creative Velocity Conversations: The Coaches Collection reintroduces Hortense le Gentil. Hortense is an executive leadership coach, speaker, and author of Aligned and The Unlocked Leader. Together we explore why the future of leadership requires something very different from the old superhero model. Hortense offers a powerful reframe for this moment: leadership requires humility and the recognition that “I don’t know” is not a weakness. Instead, it invites others to co
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