What if the company you worked for went bankrupt overnight—only for a bold new leader to step in and turn it into a multi-billion-dollar powerhouse?
That’s exactly what happened to SHI’s first employee, Melissa Graham.
In this special episode of Innovation Heroes, we’re celebrating the 35th anniversary of SHI. Melissa, the company's very first employee, ... Show More
Feb 19
When AI Can’t Afford to Be Wrong: Inside Bot Auto’s Autonomous Trucking Mission
Everyone’s talking about AI that writes code and answers questions. But what happens when AI has to operate in the physical world, where mistakes don’t just generate weird sentences, they have real consequences? On this episode of Innovation Heroes, host Ed McNamara sits down wit ... Show More
27m 22s
Feb 5
The Quantum Security Threat: Get Ready Today for Tomorrow's Tech
The encryption protecting your most sensitive data has as an expiration date. Nation-states are harvesting encrypted traffic right now, stockpiling it until quantum computers become powerful enough to crack it in seconds. In this episode, Ed McNamara sits down with Brad Bowers, S ... Show More
27m 6s
Dec 2024
E87: What It Takes to Win Big (in MENA): Insights from a $35B Founder and Global Investor
Chris Rogers is a global entrepreneur who co-founded Nextel Communications, a wireless connectivity company, in 1987 and sold it for $35B in 2005. In the early 2000s, Chris came to Saudi Arabia to launch Nextel as a joint venture with Saudi Telecom. His deep connection to the reg ... Show More
1h 19m
Jun 2023
Leadership: Refocusing on the fundamentals
Text us your thoughts on this episodeAfter a tumultuous few years, business leaders are now focused on growth to survive. From people to technology, they are applying the lessons learned as they navigate through the headwinds of today’s environment.In this episode, Tim Ryan, PwC’ ... Show More
22m 29s
Sep 2023
609: Decision Sprint: The New Way to Innovate into the Unknown and Move from Strategy to Action (with the first Chief Digital Officer in the history of the Fortune 500, Atif Rafiq)
Welcome to an interview with the author of Decision Sprint: The New Way to Innovate into the Unknown and Move from Strategy to Action, Atif Rafiq. In this book, Atif shares the breakthrough methods to put your company on the path to innovation, creativity, and growth. Atif has wr ... Show More
52m 37s
Oct 2025
The Man Behind McDonald’s $1B Tech Gamble | Atif Rafiq
As a digital pioneer across companies like Amazon, McDonald’s, and Volvo, Atif Raffiq has built a career turning legacy brands into innovation powerhouses.In this episode, Atif shares how his first month at McDonald’s led to a billion-dollar digital transformation, the culture sh ... Show More
49m 9s
Sep 2021
“My first client was a Fortune 500 company”
Meet Sophie Bolzer, founder and CEO of Audvice, a software solution that enables people to share knowledge with audio (not quite a podcast, not quite an audio book, but somewhere in between). She talks about her entrepreneurial journey to heading up a startup business with global ... Show More
28m 15s
Dec 2024
E86: Maha Abouelenein: build your brand, bet on yourself and live with no regrets!
I sat down with Maha Abouelenein, powerhouse communicator, entrepreneur, and best-selling author of Seven Rules of Self-Reliance. Maha shares her incredible journey—from starting as a secretary for Naguib Sawiris to building a PR empire, working with global icons like Gary Vee, a ... Show More
1h 13m