Ideas Elevated

From Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs, it's Ideas Elevated: the podcast that elevates innovative products to their full potential.Join host Danielle Cohn as she explores the tools and tactics that successful entrepreneurs, industry experts, and up-and-coming CEOs use to take their ideas, products, and startups to the next level.Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs gives talented entrepreneurs access to Comcast NBCUniversal’s renowned network of partners, brands and mentors to foster rapid breakthroughs in connectivity, media, and entertainment.

Business
Technology
1
Bree Kellum Ballogun: Cultivating Client Relati...
You'll walk away with tips on how to build trust, set boundaries, and develop new strategies to gain and maintain client relationships.
27 min
2
Kendra Bracken-Ferguson: Telling Your Brand Story
Kendra Bracken-Ferguson is a digital marketer, brand architect, and entrepreneur. In this episode she shares tactics to help you tell your brand story, and you’ll learn Kendra’s strategies for maintaining balance in her life as a busy entrepreneur.
27 min
3
How to Build a More Diverse Talent Pool
Marlin and Tani join my colleague Khalilah Lawson to chat about the best hiring practices for creating an inclusive work environment.
33 min
4
Cultivating a More Inclusive Company Culture
In this episode, Stefanie K. Johnson and Andrea Perdomo share steps that you can take right now to start building the foundation for a more equitable future in your workplace.
28 min
5
Creating an Equitable Workplace
Rashaad, Alicia, and Chris chat with Kendra Lee during one of our Live@LIFT virtual events. They’ll discuss the role that management plays in fostering inclusive work environments and explore the difference between reactive and proactive inclusivity.
30 min
6
Nir Bashan: How to Cultivate a Creative Mentality
Nir Bashan is a creativity expert and the CEO and founder of The Creator Mindset Consulting. Through his business, Nir has taught thousands of people how to harness the power of creativity to improve profitability, increase sales, and ultimately create more meaning in their work.
28 min
7
AirBnB’s Chip Conley on The Modern Elder At Work
At age 52, Chip Conley sold his successful boutique hotel business and was recruited by Airbnb to serve as its head of global hospitality and strategy while also mentoring its CEO, Brian Chesky.
30 min
8
Emily Heyward: Building A Brand People Love
Emily Heyward is a ground-breaking entrepreneur and branding expert that has helped companies like Casper and Allbirds become household names.
29 min
9
Shanel Fields: How to Recruit the Right Investors
Shanel Fields is the dynamic Founder and CEO of telemedicine service MD Ally. She is also a member of the Board of Directors for Techstars, a startup accelerator.
32 min
10
Yancey Strickler: Better Decisions that will Ki...
Yancey Strickler cofounded Kickstarter, the global crowdfunding platform for founders. Kickstarter went on to become the number one network in the world for supporting and growing new creative ideas.
46 min
11
Alex Kantrowitz: How The Tech Titans Still Oper...
Alex Kantrowitz is the founder of Big Technology, a independent newsletter and podcast that focuses on the tech giants. He’s the author of Always Day One: How The Tech Titans Plan To Stay On Top Forever, a book that explores how even the most successful companies still operate like startups.
28 min
12
Cal Fussman: Lessons from World Leaders and Icons
Cal Fussman is a New York Times bestselling author, longtime Esquire writer, corporate consultant, and host of the Big Questions podcast. He’s best known for his column in Esquire magazine, where he’s interviewed leaders such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Jeff Bezos, Muhammad Ali, and so many more.
23 min
13
Natalie Nixon: Balancing Wonder and Rigor to St...
Natalie W. Nixon is a PHD, strategist, and a regular contributor to INC online magazine. Her latest book The Creativity Leap, provides a fresh look into how to cultivate creativity in the workplace.
37 min
14
Shauna Griffiths: Don't Just Work from Home, LE...
Shauna Griffiths is a dynamic, hybrid-marketer who has successfully worked and led remotely for the last 5 years. She was named a 2017 Game Changer by SportsBusiness Journal, and was selected as one of the 2017 HATCH 100.
18 min
15
Rohit Bhargava: How to Think in Non-Obvious Ways
Rohit Bhargava is an innovation and marketing expert and the founder of the Non-Obvious Company.
27 min
16
David Marquet: Leadership Empowered by the Mili...
David Marquet is a retired U.S. Naval Captain who spent years managing nuclear submarines. Now, decades later, he’s using the skills he learned 800 feet underwater to maneuver leadership in the workplace.
14 min
17
Kelly Hoey: Building Your Network From Home
Kelly Hoey is a networking expert, and the author of Build Your Dream Network: Forging Powerful Relationships In A Hyper-Connected World.
28 min
18
Steven Levy: The Inside Story of Facebook
Steven Levy is the editor-at-large at WIRED Magazine and has written multiple books about technology, cryptography, the internet, cybersecurity, and privacy. He was named as America’s Premier Technology Journalist by The Washington Post.
20 min
19
Bob Moore: Building and Growing a Company Durin...
Bob Moore is Co-Founder and CEO of Crossbeam, a data platform that helps companies discover which customers and leads they have in common.
24 min
20
Zaza: Why You Should Consider Applying for a St...
Sumorwuo Zaza is the CEO and Co-Founder of NICKL, a software company focused on making it easy to access quality news and information. In this episode, Zaza will share tips for any entrepreneur who’s considering applying for an accelerator program.
25 min
21
Howard Gray: Watching Out for Blind Spots in Yo...
Howard is a project builder and leadership coach who guides founders and entrepreneurs to reach their full potential. He’s crafted programs for execs at IBM, Mastercard, and General Electric.
20 min
22
David Meerman Scott: Turning Fans into Customer...
David is a marketing strategist, entrepreneur, advisor, and author of several bestselling books. He and his daughter, Reiko, collaborated to write David’s latest book: “Fanocracy: Turning Fans into Customers and Customers into Fans.”
28 min
23
Randi Zuckerberg: From Facebook to Broadway
Randi Zuckerberg is an entrepreneur, author, Tony-award winning producer. She spent years in Silicon Valley as the director of market development for Facebook. Later, she founded the production company Zuckerberg Media.
51 min
24
John Maeda: How Computational Thinking Can Tran...
John Maeda is one of the world's preeminent interdisciplinary thinkers on technology and design. In How to Speak Machine, he offers a set of simple laws that govern not only the computers of today, but the unimaginable machines of the future.
14 min
25
Ben Nemtin: From Crippling Depression to Playin...
Ben Nemtim is a TV producer, motivational speaker, and New York Times bestselling author.
23 min