Leaders in the Arena

By: Bridge Innovate
  • Summary

  • Leaders in the Arena is provided by Bridge Innovate® to share valuable insights and lessons from our clients and network to support your innovation journey. Be inspired by the experiences and stories of creative, impactful, and innovative leaders to help your team navigate tough challenges and enable deeper insights. Bridge Innovate® is a global network of business strategists, consultants, and designers that team up with you to spark distinctive strategies, courageous leadership, and agile change to transform your organization for growth and good.
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Episodes
  • Acceleration with AI-Enabled Design with Adam Walcott
    Jan 16 2025

    In a highly complex market, designing and prototyping solutions are critical to maintaining and growing market position.

    In this episode of ⁠⁠Leaders in the Arena⁠⁠, join us as we sit down with Bridge Consultant Adam Wolcott to discuss ‘Acceleration with AI-Enabled Design.’ Discover how artificial intelligence is transforming design by enhancing data analysis, optimizing patterns, and streamlining processes.

    Bridge Innovate brings this enhanced capability to market with the Future LAB.

    The Future Lab℠ provides the team with a range of design sprint options that may be used alone or connected together to form an overall transformation approach. Bridge certified facilitators provide the team with a full range of proven tools and methods to support their work, including access to generative AI for acceleration

    Every design sprint begins with a challenge. Based on your challenge, choose one Sprint or connect them to form an overall transformation approach.

    By synthesizing data, generating insights, and expanding brainstorming possibilities, AI enables teams to quickly uncover transformative solutions

    What You Will Learn:

    • What does AI-Enabled design look like?
    • Why speed matters in design today
    • How AI helps teams solve big problems
    • The human + AI Collaboration
    • Breaking down barriers to innovation

    • Catch the next episode of Leaders in the Arena, and check out other exciting events on our website: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.bridgeinnovate.com/events⁠⁠


      Subscribe to the ⁠⁠⁠Bridge Innovate® newsletter⁠⁠⁠ to keep up with our latest programs and services: http://eepurl.com/gv3ST5

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    32 mins
  • Shaping the Future Through Change with Dave Gambrell
    Dec 11 2024

    Change is inevitable, but how you lead through it shapes your future. In this episode of ⁠⁠Leaders in the Arena⁠⁠, Dave Gambrell, Dean of Enrollment Management at Covenant College, joins Bridge Innovate to discuss his leadership journey.


    Faced with the challenges of new leadership and growing operational demands, Covenant’s Admissions Department partnered with Bridge Innovate to take part in The Leadership Challenge.


    This leadership development program uncovered critical opportunities to improve their work management systems, ultimately leading to the design and implementation of Asana to streamline workflows and enhance collaboration.


    What You’ll Learn:

    • Leadership in Transition: How Dave guided his team during a time of change and inspired them to embrace new opportunities.
    • Empowering Teams Through Systems: How identifying and addressing gaps in work management supported team efficiency and future growth.
    • Advice for Leaders: Dave’s practical lessons for leading through change without overwhelming your team.


    Catch the next episode of Leaders in the Arena, and check out other exciting events on our website: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.bridgeinnovate.com/events⁠⁠


    Subscribe to the ⁠⁠⁠Bridge Innovate® newsletter⁠⁠⁠ to keep up with our latest programs and services: http://eepurl.com/gv3ST5

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    30 mins
  • The Power of Vision and Strategy: A Non-Profit Leader’s Story with Lucy Rymer
    Dec 4 2024

    How does a nonprofit build on its strengths to shape a brighter future?


    In this special episode of Leaders in the Arena, Lucy Rymer, Executive Director of the Museum and Cultural Center at 5ive Points, joins Bridge Innovate CEO Jenny Whitener to share how the Museum partnered with Bridge to design a bold vision and strategy to become an arts and culture anchor for their community.


    Together, they discuss the challenges nonprofits face, the keys to engaging a team, and the impact of a collaborative strategy process.


    This conversation offers inspiration and practical insights for nonprofit leaders looking to take their organization to the next level.


    Here’s What You’ll Learn:

    • Challenges in the Nonprofit Sector: Hear Lucy discuss the obstacles that held the organization back and how they approached them.
    • Vision and Strategy in Action: Explore how a guided vision and strategy process became a roadmap for progress.
    • Engaging Teams for Success: Learn Lucy’s secrets to gaining buy-in from her board and staff for lasting impact.
    • Results and Lessons Learned: Discover the outcomes of the project and the critical leadership insights Lucy is taking forward.
    • Advice for Leaders: Gain practical advice from Lucy for nonprofit leaders facing similar challenges.


    Catch the next episode of Leaders in the Arena, and check out other exciting events on our website: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.bridgeinnovate.com/events⁠⁠


    Subscribe to the ⁠⁠⁠Bridge Innovate® newsletter⁠⁠⁠ to keep up with our latest programs and services: http://eepurl.com/gv3ST5

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    33 mins

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