"'Wow' doesn't happen by chance," explains tech pioneer, human-centric AI consultant and author/speaker/podcast host Elizabeth Bieniek, in her book Cake on Tuesday: 25 Lessons to Unlock Corporate Innovation.

And, Elizabeth says, "corporate" or not, we're all innovators.

Elizabeth built and led the team that created the groundbreaking Webex Hologram holographic collaboration system, in 2021. In Cake on Tuesday, she shares the lessons she learned, along the way. And while these are about leading a pioneering team of technological innovators, the principles could every bit as easily be applied to your next creative project.

Getting started, keeping the project going, and especially, building in the "wow!" element, for anyone who experiences what you've created, are all areas Elizabeth explores in Cake on Tuesday.

So are the elements of playfulness and fun.

"Do we (have to be serious)?" she asks, at one point, as we discuss focusing a team on a project.

(Indeed, the title of her book and podcast come from exactly that principle!)

And one of her own latest creative projects is her new podcast, Cake on Tuesday, in which she and her guests discuss tech leadership and entrepreneurship! (Be sure to subscribe.)

In this discussion we apply some of the principles from Elizabeth's book to a hypothetical educator's experience of creating a mini maker faire!