In this podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover talks with Helene Cahen about her book, Fire Up Innovation: Sparking and Sustaining Innovation Teams. Helene Cahen, MS, author of Fire Up Innovation: Sparking and Sustaining Innovation Teams (www.fireupinnovation.com/book), is an innovation strategist, trainer, facilitator, and speaker with over 20 years of experience helping companies navigate innovation challenges. She is the founder and principal consultant at Fire Up Innovation Consulting (previously Strategic Insights), where she guides Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and non-profits to understand innovation, create innovative new products/services, build effective teams, and support a user-centered culture. Cahen has been a facilitator and lecturer for the Haas School of Business and is now coaching in their Executive Program. She was also the vice president of innovation for a startup and worked in and for package goods corporations in the beginning of her career. She is in demand as a speaker on the topic of innovation, design thinking and creativity, and recently did a TEDx talk on high-performance collaboration for teams. Trained in creative problem solving and design thinking, Cahen received an MS in Creativity and Change Leadership from the Center for Applied Imagination at the State University of New York (SUNY) Buffalo. She also has a business degree from Sciences Po Paris, a prestigious French business school. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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