Kia Ora, welcome to Creative Couch, a podcast brought to you by Creative HQ, Wellington's Innovation Hub. 

We'll be exploring everything from Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Creativity, Design and all the unobvious in between.

Joining us on the couch each week, will be trailblazers, thought leaders, creative champions and generally amazing humans who are contributing to these spaces in Aotearoa & afar. In this first season we will look at demystifying innovation, youth entrepreneurship and chat startup life with some Kiwi founders.

So grab a cuppa, settle in and join us on the Creative Couch.

Creative Couch is possible thanks to the support of our friends at the Institute of Directors and Wellington NZ. 

Creative HQ is based in Wellington, New Zealand. 

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Innovating. Innovative. Innovation. Innovate. 

What does innovation look like, feel like and sound like and how do those in the sector define it?

Welcome to the first episode of Creative Couch. This is the first episode in a 3-part series of “Demystifying innovation”. Each episode, we will be joined by experts in the industry who will be helping us unpack and understand what innovation truly is, and how we can all introduce and/or enhance it in our day-to-day lives. 

We are joined by special guests Alexandra Lutyens, a senior innovation specialist at Creative HQ, Chris Jackson, founder of We Create Futures, and Finn Lawrence, founding director of Mevo, who will begin to unravel the inner workings of an innovative life. 

What is innovation? 

What is the actual benefit of us being innovative? 

Together we will discuss these important, burning questions so many of us have, and what the impact innovation has had on us and our planet so far. 

This episode of Creative Couch is hosted by Dr Colin Kennedy, Head of Creative HQ's School of Innovation and Senior Innovation Specialist.

This episode was made possible thank you to the support from our friends at the Institute of Directors here in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. 

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How can innovation change and impact the workplace? How does an organisation implement innovation in a productive and successful way?

Continuing our journey to demystifying innovation, joining us on the couch in this episode are special guests Catherine Jones, CEO of Creative HQ) and Shannon Thorpe, CEO of Fortune Favours. We will be delving into innovation and why it’s essential for an organisation's success and survival. We discuss the advantages of a ‘culture of innovation’? What is the real risk of getting it wrong?

Success (and failure) stories will be shared with a new lens on how COVID-19 has shaped our different ways of working. 

This episode of Creative Couch is hosted by Dr Colin Kennedy, Head of Creative HQ's School of Innovation and Senior Innovation Specialist.

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