How to Build an Innovative Culture with Paul Slater

Idea Time Innovation with Dr. Jo North

Paul Slater from the change shed is today's podcast guest.

Paul's an expert on change culture and transformation. In this episode we focus on how to build an innovative culture in your organisation. We talk about what an innovative culture is, what it means in practice, what it means for leaders, and speculate on the future of AI and its interaction with employee creativity.

Topics include:

• What is an innovative culture?
• Why is it important to build an innovation culture in organizations?
• The essential ingredients of a positive innovation culture
• Practical steps that leaders and senior managers can take to build an innovative culture, with real examples.
• The role of internal innovation ecosystems in creating intellectual capital in organizations.
• How AI might complement and extend employee creativity

Articles and tips on Innovation Culture:

Ten Steps to an Innovation Culture

8 Top Tips for Building an Innovative Culture in 2023

Paul Slater’s Biography

Paul is an accomplished facilitator and management consultant with a wealth of experience in helping companies innovate, change, and grow. His mission is to help businesses become more valuable, enjoyable, and future proof. Paul helps leaders develop growth cultures by focusing on clarity of purpose, vision, values, and aligning them with performance and operating models. His systems thinking approach spans multiple dimensions of growth and innovation, from strategy to process and technology. Paul is passionate about enabling people to develop themselves and their businesses in a sustainable and scalable way.

Paul has worked with many household names including General Motors. He enjoys translating his big company experience into meaningful strategies for smaller businesses and start-ups/scale-ups. He spent the early part of his career at Accenture before joining Oakland Consulting, where he led their People and Change service line as a Partner. For the last 7 years, he has been MD at The Change Shed Ltd.