570: Inside the executive room: The innovation challenges leaders don’t discuss publicly – with Matt Phillips, Mike Hyzy, and Will Evans
Product Mastery Now for Product Managers, Leaders, and Innovators · 2025-12-15 · 36 min
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How top industry leaders are breaking down barriers in product management and innovation Watch on YouTube TLDR Three innovation consultants—Matt Phillips, Mike Hyzy, and Will Evans—share insights from facilitating the executive innovation track at PDMA's Ignite Innovation Conference. The session brought together 25 senior directors and VPs from Fortune 100 companies to discuss their most pressing innovation challenges. They discussed key challenges to innovation, including managing capacity to carve out space for innovation work, driving AI adoption across the workforce, and building innovation cultures that spread beyond dedicated innovation teams. Solutions discussed include celebrating effort over success, creating visible recognition systems for innovators, and developing innovation models that train innovation champions across different parts of organizations. Introduction What happens when innovation executives from across industries gather in one room to surface their most urgent challenges?