The "From Here To There" Game Plan: Strategy & Leadership for C-Suite to Early Career
Our goal is to holistically address the entire leadership-innovation space, and facilitate understanding for seeking to become fluent in and build up effective cultures for innovation & aspiration.
In the months ahead, we’ll be writing across several themes for people working in—or aspiring toward—the innovation space. Whether you’re leading major initiatives, managing teams at the project level, or just starting your journey, our goal is to offer perspective, tools, and frameworks that help at every stage.
Here’s a high level overview of how upcoming posts will be organized:
1. Vision & Strategy for Senior Leaders
Vision at Altitude: Strategy, Systems, and Leading from the Top
For C-suite executives, strategic advisors, and those thinking about the big picture:
We’ll explore how vision-setting, grand strategy, and leadership mindsets shape innovation ecosystems. It’s less about titles and hierarchy, and more about the unique challenges and roles that fall within this realm of responsibility. What problems should innovators be aiming to solve, sure - but more so, how can you build up your organization to sustainably pursue them? How can leaders stay ahead as technology, markets, and institutions evolve?
What does all of this mean developing a coherent vision and communicating through these times of great change, challenge, and opportunity? We look at core, timeless principles of management, strategy, and leadership, while seeking to apply them to our contemporary context, and reflect on how these endeavors may shape the future ahead.
2. Project Leadership, Management, and In-The-Trenches Tactics & Strategies.
Execution In the Arena: Project Leadership and Tactical Applications
For team leads, project managers, and operational innovators:
We'll dive into what it means to steer real teams doing real work—the builders, makers, and thinkers turning ideas into reality. When you are leading a team through the trenches, finding unknowns, and looking to both build new things and traverse to new destinations - this requires unique skills and tactics. We'll talk about leadership in practice: project planning, communication, team dynamics, navigating ambiguity, and delivering results.
3. Early Career: Learning, Growing, Contributing
For students, early professionals, and emerging changemakers:
We’ll share advice on how to build a foundation, how to seek mentorship, and how to participate meaningfully even before holding formal leadership roles. Everyone’s journey begins somewhere, and this space is for those who are eager to listen, learn, and engage.
Note: We also know you are sometimes wearing multiple hats: a first time project manager who is sitting in on the CTO or CEO’s meetings; a first-time startup founder who may be essentially all stages at once, and other configurations are likely. But we differentiate these three levels for the sake of referencing the roles and challenges they may face thematically, rather than supposing they are necessarily clearly demarcated as such in practice.
Leave a comment — have you had to wear multiple roles, even in this context?
But Wait - There’s More! Other Columns & Themes
In addition to posts by role and experience level, I’ll be covering:
AI & Technology in Leadership — How emerging tech trends and AI tools are influencing how we innovate, manage, and decide.
Book Reviews — Focused on leadership, innovation, strategic thinking, and the future of technology.
Podcasts & Interviews — Conversations with innovators, founders, researchers, and decision-makers across startups, academia, nonprofits, and government.
Why Structure It This Way?
Because we believe innovation succeeds when we create learning across levels:
Early career changemakers need visibility into how strategic decisions are made.
Mid-career leaders need tools for bridging vision into execution.
Senior executives benefit from reconnecting to the reality of daily innovation work and from seeing who the next generation is becoming.
Innovation isn’t just about technology—it’s about people, leadership, stewardship, and learning across disciplines and stages of growth.
We’re excited to share what we’ve learned so far and to continue learning alongside you.
Thanks for being here.
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