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S11E18: The Leader-Innovator: Why innovation is no longer a nice-to-have but a fundamental requirement for modern leadership
The Rethink Leadership PodcastMay 18, 2026
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S11E18: The Leader-Innovator: Why innovation is no longer a nice-to-have but a fundamental requirement for modern leadership

S11E18: The Leader-Innovator: Why innovation is no longer a nice-to-have but a fundamental requirement for modern leadership

Guest:

Tom Pullen

CEO of Innovinco® and award-winning author of INNOVATOR: 10 simple steps to innovate with speed, scale, and confidence

Tom Pullen is the award-winning author of INNOVATOR and CEO of Innovinco®, a company that helps large corporations to maximise business growth by accelerating innovation.

Tom spent the first 18 years of his career driving business growth inside major companies, including Boots, Mars, and Danone, where he became Global Innovation Director.

Since founding Innovinco® in 2017, he has had the privilege of helping over 30 of the world’s leading companies to accelerate innovation performance. These include Danone, Essilor, Estée Lauder, The Coca-Cola Company, Toyota, Unilever, and many more.

Tom holds an Executive MBA with an Innovation major from HEC Paris, frequently ranked Europe’s number one business school, where he now regularly teaches innovation to executives.


Charity: We have made a donation to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity – in London, UK as a thank you to Tom for joining me. Specifically to an initiative established by a friend of Tom's, who has raised £355k for Great Ormond Street Hospital in memory of her daughter, who received treatment there. For further information and to participate, please get involved here: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/anna-lewis-bff

 

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[00:00:02] Welcome to The Rethink Leadership Podcast with me, Jeremy Blaine. I interview leaders, experts and business professionals from around the world who are bringing leadership principles and know-how into the digitally-driven 21st-century workplace, with focus firmly on the how-to rather than the what. Each episode is in aid of a charity chosen by my guests, and since 2020, we've made donations to over 80 global and local causes.

[00:00:31] Welcome to The Rethink Leadership Podcast with my guest, Tom Pullen, the award-winning author of Innovator and CEO of Invinco, a company that helps large corporations to maximize business growth by accelerating innovation. Since founding Invinco in 2017, Tom has helped over 30 of the world's leading companies to accelerate innovation performance, including Coca-Cola, Toyota, Unilever, and many more.

[00:00:59] In this deep dive, Tom helps us dismantle the myth that innovation belongs in a lab or a specialized department. As the pace of market transformation accelerates, we explore how to bridge the gap between high-level strategy, leadership sponsorship, and grassroots creativity to experiment, innovate, and make it happen at all levels with the full support of management.

[00:01:23] This episode is in aid of the Great Ormond Street Hospital children's charity in London, UK, as a thank you to Tom for joining me, specifically to an initiative established by a friend of Tom's who raised over £350,000 for Great Ormond Street Hospital in memory of her daughter. Tom, thank you very much for joining me. Please introduce yourself and your expertise.

[00:01:47] Tom, thank you very much for joining me.

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