Masters of Craft

Very few musicians have mastered the art of reinvention. In a hyper digitally connected world where everyone's vying to get the most followers, subscribers, and likes, James Lanman has sent himself out on a 100-day tour across the United States-- playing backyards and living rooms of perfect strangers. With his "action trumps perfection" motto, The former graphic and web designer turned musician/e...

"It's all about operation preparedness. It's about training, it's about rehearsing." -Afzal Ali, UK Defence Solutions Centre. During a recent visit to London, Innovation Crush host Chris Denson stops by Digital Jam Sessions podcast to chat with host Tanya Laird and Afzal Ali from the UK Defence Solutions Centre about collaborative thinking, advanced technology, and borrowing ideas from the private...

As one of the nicest guys on the planet, Scott Keeney (aka DJ SKee)is a music artist, television host, radio personality, philanthropist and entrepreneur. As the host of Skee TV, Scott saw over 3 BILLION views on content the network created. Fresh off a partnership with Amazon Alexa, his startup music listening platform, Dash Radio has amassed millions of listeners and celebrity curated stations f...

Chairman and co-founder of Sid Lee, founding partner of C2 Montreal, a member of the Kyu Collective, award-winning photographer, and long standing partner of Cirque Du Soleil, J.F. Bouchard is no stranger to what it takes to develop some of the most inventive experiences on the planet. Over the years, he has broken his skill for creative alchemy down to the a simple mechanic -- bring different poi...

Ben Parr is no stranger to capturing attention. As the former editor-at-large of Mashable, he wrote close 2500 articles on technology and innovation and oversaw thousands more. A few years later, he wrote a book on the subject, Captivology: The Science of Capturing Attention. He is a sought after adviser and investor for startups, and recently launched Octane. AI, a chat bot company that uses arti...

2017 marks the 20th anniversary of the Case Foundation, one of the world's top philanthropic organizations, led by technology pioneer, Jean Case (along with her husband and AOL co-founder, Steve Case). Recorded live during SXSW 2017 at Walmart's Spark VIP Lounge, Jean joins Innovation Crush to discuss closing the vast divides in entrepreneurship, her own humble beginnings, her new leadership role...

Every brand, entrepreneur, product, and movement has a story -- and across many talents and crafts, Orlando Jones is a master storyteller. The actor, musician, designer, and marketer has entertained audiences by the millions, whether in notable roles in series like Sleepy Hollow and the highly anticipated Starz series, American Gods, or helming marketing initiatives for brands like King's Hawaiian...

Every week, 140 million people around the world set foot in a Walmart owned store. Easily taking first position as the world's largest retailer, its family of brands include Sam's Club, Jet, and a host of others. For the past 5-plus years, WalmartLabs has been the backbone of the company's innovation ecosystem, catalyzed by a a simple goal: create a seamless shopping experience so customers can sa...

Adage 40 under 40, CNBC top 50 disruptor, Ernst & Young winner, holder of almost 10 patents, and recipient of numerous other accolades, Rodney Williams thinks like a social psychologist, operates like a marketing genius, and leads like an NBA coach. Shortly after founding his company LISNR (who's biggest customer is the U.S. Government), Rodney coined the phrase "Internet of Sound," referring to L...

The son of a journalist and a classical music composer, Eden Chen started his young adulthood as a video game playing, shoplifting, failing high school student. Then he found Jesus. By the time he was ready to graduate college he had already started his own hedge fund. Almost 10 years later, the life long learner is in the midst master life pivot-- a member Forbes 30 Under 30 club; part owner in C...

Mick Batyske is no ordinary DJ. Not only has the consummate connoisseur of cool traveled the world spinning records for the ranks of Jay-Z, GQ, Twitter, Cannes Lions and the White House Correspondents' Dinner, he's a highly sought after influencer who partners with brands like Cadillac, Coach and EA for marketing campaigns, and invests in startups like Localeur. On this episode of the Crush, Mick...

At the age of 16, armed with nothing but blind faith, Patty Rodriguez drove herself to a radio station to ask for a job. 8 years later, after moving up the ranks at KIIS FM, she became the senior producer of the #1 morning drive show in America, On Air With Ryan Seacrest Show -- a position she holds to this date. In addition to her radio work, Patty is a multi-hyphenate entrepreneur -- a jewelry d...

As president of globally recognized public radio entity, KCRW, Jennifer Ferro describes herself as the company's Chief Resource Officer -- a role that empowers and participates in the exploration of new ideas, methods, and tools to reach and engage the KCRW audience. From virtual reality, to artificial intelligence, to exploratory programming and more, the hyper local/extremely global non-profit o...

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Serial entrepreneur, investor, author, tv personality, speaker, White House Ambassador, and all around motivator, Daymond John steps out of the shark tank and joins this episode of Innovation Crush. The innovator's journey is never a smooth one and Daymond is no stranger to the pitfalls, triumphs, passion and heart it takes. On the show, he discusses everything from losing his mom's money, to his...

Since its inception, Jodi Goldstein has been the managing director of the Harvard Innovation Lab, a unique program that democratizes access to creative entrepreneurial resources and thinking across all twelve Harvard Schools. A Harvard graduate herself, she spent most of her career before the iLab on the management teams of several venture-backed startups including iMarket (sold to D&B), Planetall...

Having lost his ability to walk at age 5, and the ability to breath solely on his own later in life, Dr. Victor Pineda has grown to become the consummate multi-hyphenate. A scholar, professor, activist, filmmaker, international guest speaker, social design thinker, and White House appointee under President Obama. His day job affords him the ability to travel the world, working with governments, bu...

Two-time Emmy® winner, author, professor, advisor, speaker, expert witness, founder, former hip hop producer... these are just a few of things that describe Seth Shapiro, who's career has been steeped in the technological advancing of television development. His clients include The Walt Disney Company, Comcast, DIRECTV, Intel, IPG, NBC, Showtime, RTL, SBS, Universal, Slamdance Studios, Goldman Sac...

McKenna Walsh has spent much of her life in the practice of learning to think differently. From absorbing business from inventive tech pioneer parents, to partnering in her brother's ultra-analog doggie daycare start up, to attending an all women's university, to mentoring NASA's robotics program, to advising and investing in entrepreneurs, to now operating her own artificial intelligence company,...

Having graced the stages and the boardrooms of the likes of TED, Nike, Oprah, Worldz, Time Warner, Hillary Clinton, Cisco, Google, and a countless number of others, Sekou Andrews is the poetic voice of the innovation diaspora. An award-winning slam poet, he almost effortlessly uses poetic performance as a means to push some of the world's greatest thinkers to higher levels of achievement and inter...

Visionaries like Diplo, Mark Cuban, Calvin Harris, Tim Draper, and others have all graced the stages of Recess, a college tour that combines EDM concerts, business inspiration, networking opportunities, and pitch competitions for students and young entrepreneurs around the country. Having graced over 85 campuses and close to 100,000 students in just a couple years, Recess has become one of the top...

One part cultural anthropologist, one part creative genius and all social media muscle, Patrick Mulford serves as Chief Creative Officer of TheAudience, one of the world's leading social media marketing firms. TheAudience connects global brands like Target, Unilever, and Ford, to billions of consumers through celebrity and cultural influencers as well as standalone presence. On this episode of Inn...

Elizabeth Gore has undying passion to empower the world's best entrepreneur talent to change the world at scale. In addition to her role as Dell's Entrepreneur-In-Residence, Elizabeth is the Emeritus Chair of the United Nations Foundation’s Global Entrepreneurs Council that builds global partnerships that positively affect the UN’s most pressing humanitarian issues. At Dell, she is working with th...

What happens when you grow up on both Fat Albert and Albert Einstein? You get Hakeem Oluseyi. As one of the world's foremost scientists, Hakeem wears many hats-- TV personality, professor, life coach, consultant, voice actor, philanthropist, and chief science officer at the Discovery Channel, to name a few. As a kid, he grew up in some of the poorest neighborhoods. As an adult he has traveled the...

With a brain as wild, stylish, and immaculately brilliant as the hair-do that sits on top of it, David Shing spits hot fire every where he goes. And he literally goes everywhere. As AOL's Digital Prophet (real title), "Shingy" travels the globe recording and reporting on digital trends and social behaviors that inform the way AOL and its clients should be thinking about their businesses in the nea...