The Knowledge Series 2025

October 8th, 2025
10 AM EST | 3 PM GMT | 4 PM CEST

 

6 Practical Steps that Foster an Innovation Climate

What if your organization didn’t just support innovation, but actively created the conditions for it to thrive? In this follow-up session to our earlier webinar, "Winning Over Top Management: How to Secure Support for Your Innovation Initiatives", Colin Nelson dives deeper into what it really takes for leadership to go beyond verbal support and start enabling innovation at every level. You’ll explore six essential leadership behaviors that foster a true innovation climate. 

Join us to move from persuasion to capability and leave with actionable steps you can use to shape your 2026 innovation strategy. 

Start shaping your 2026 Innovation Strategy!

What You’ll Learn

You’ll get practical guidance on how leadership can enable success via: 

  • Making time for innovation.
  • Recognizing the innovative behaviors we need.
  • A portfolio approach to your innovation bets.
  • How to manage uncertainty when no innovation is a sure thing. 
  • Getting your innovation measures right. 
  • How to move beyond the gate review to add real value at every stage.
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This session is ideal for heads of innovation, strategy leads, and exec sponsors who want to move from persuasion to sustained capability. 

Register now to access exclusive insights and take a data-driven approach to transforming your innovation strategy.

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Colin Nelson, Chief Innovation Consultant at HYPE 

Colin Nelson is an experienced innovation strategist with over 20 years of helping complex organizations build and scale collaborative innovation processes. He specializes in engaging employees, partners, and customers to harness collective intelligence and deliver business value.

Colin supports clients in defining metrics that resonate with leadership, aligning innovation efforts with standards like ISO 56000. He helps drive initiatives in Continuous Improvement, Innovation, and Business Transformation by uniting diverse groups under common goals.

Previously, he led the European division of Imaginatik, where he pioneered crowdsourcing and collaborative innovation methods that drove transformation and improvement.

Specialties: Innovation Measurement, Collaborative Processes, Innovation Management Systems, ISO 56000, Crowdsourcing, Collective Intelligence, Business Transformation, Strategic Alignment.