Building Innovative Leaders

Building Innovative Leaders starts with challenging old thinking, casting a bold vision, building future-focused strategies, and turning ideas into action. Through four powerful pillars—Vision, Breaking the Script, Strategy, and Execution—leaders learn to challenge the status quo and start INNOVATING RELENTLESSLY within their organizations.

The Building Innovative Leaders platform challenges leaders to Smash the Box, Rip Off the Rearview Mirror, and turn bold ideas into measurable results.

Through four powerful pillars—Vision, Breaking the Script, Strategy, and Execution—leaders learn to challenge the status quo, break free from outdated thinking, and start INNOVATING RELENTLESSLY within their organizations.

1. VISION — Transforming Vision Into Winning Results

“The Innovative Leader” — Keynote Address

Innovative leaders don’t wait for the future. They create it.

This keynote challenges leaders to question assumptions, break unproductive routines, and move beyond the mindset of “this is the way we’ve always done it.”

Leaders discover how to build a bold vision, embrace adaptability, and combine human imagination with an innovative mindset to create new possibilities for their organizations.

2. BREAKING THE SCRIPT — Smash the Box!

“Smash the Box” — Keynote Address

Stop thinking outside the box—SMASH IT!

Every leader faces four mental walls that limit innovation: Fear, Perfection, Negativity, and Judgment.

Through interactive exercises and practical innovation techniques, leaders learn to break these walls, challenge self-limiting beliefs, embrace mistakes, and create an environment where new ideas can thrive.

It’s time to break the script and challenge the thinking that holds leaders back.

3. STRATEGY — Rip Off the Rearview Mirror

“Rip Off the Rearview Mirror” — Keynote Address

You can’t create the future by constantly looking in the rearview mirror.

Innovative leaders challenge outdated strategies, past successes, and old assumptions that prevent organizations from moving forward.

This keynote helps leaders break free from the past, embrace experimentation, and build future-focused strategies aligned with their organization’s vision and mission.

The goal? Stop allowing yesterday’s thinking to determine tomorrow’s results.

4. EXECUTION — Turn Bold Ideas Into Winning Results

“The Innovation Plan” — Interactive Workshop

Innovative leaders don’t just have great ideas—they execute them.

This hands-on leadership innovation workshop moves leaders from inspiration to implementation.

Participants take a real challenge or opportunity facing their organization and move their ideas through the Innovation Incubator, challenge them with the NAF Test, and apply a Fail Fast / Agile mindset to test, adjust, and move forward.

Every participant leaves with something tangible:

THEIR OWN INNOVATION PLAN.

A clear idea. A clear strategy. A clear next step.

Building Innovative Leaders Who Create the Future

VISION → BREAK THE SCRIPT → STRATEGY → EXECUTION

Chad J. Willett (MA, NSA, SAG-AFTRA) is the founder of Broadway2LA Acting Studio and a nationally recognized innovation and leadership speaker, TEDx presenter, and two-time author.

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