KEYNOTE TWO
Becoming
an Idea
Factory:
How to build a culture where innovation is inevitable
Topics: Innovation Culture, Team Creativity, Leadership
Why do some teams consistently produce meaningful, breakthrough ideas while others stay stuck? The difference usually isn’t talent, motivation, or intelligence. It’s environment.
Kyle Scheele spent 20 years studying this question across teams, organizations, and his own real-world experiments. What he found is surprising:
Most teams don’t fail at innovation because they lack good ideas. They fail because those ideas are placed into environments that can’t support them.
Through hilarious stories, disarming honesty, and lessons drawn from his own successes and misfires, Kyle unpacks where ideas get stuck, why they stall, and what to do about it.
Becoming an Idea Factory gives leaders a shared language for innovation and a clear framework for building teams where great ideas aren’t rare moments of inspiration, but a natural byproduct of how work gets done.
In this talk, Kyle will:
