Why Well-Run Companies Will Continue to Fail
Join Alex Slawsby, Chief Growth Officer at InnoLead in Boston MA, for a discussion about why employees' fear of speaking up is the single greatest obstacle to success when companies innovate.
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What will the process of creation and renewal look like by 2035? How will we leverage innovation to meet the challenges of the future in areas from our power grid and collaborative intelligence to community health and resilience building? Explore questions, ideas, and trends likely to affect business and society over the next decade. Let these ideas serve as a springboard for structured speculation about emerging issues and the next ten years.
Join Alex Slawsby, Chief Growth Officer at InnoLead in Boston MA, for a discussion about why employees’ fear of speaking up is the single greatest obstacle to success when companies innovate.
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Meet the Speaker: Alex Slawsby

Alex Slawsby is Chief Growth Officer of InnoLead, an organization that creates content, events and tools to help the world’s largest network of corporate strategy, innovation and R&D leaders drive change more successfully. Slawsby has dedicated more than 20 years to researching, teaching, guiding and leading corporate innovation strategy development, capability building and new business incubation.
Prior to joining InnoLead, Alex was Director of Innovation for EmbraerX, the new growth group of the Brazilian aerospace company, Embraer, the third largest producer of civil aircraft in the world. He also worked for ten years as an innovation consultant, including seven years working for Innosight, Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation consultancy.
Slawsby earned a B.A. in Political Science from Brown University and an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management.