Edited Fireside Chat and Q&A responses from the Executive Innovation Summit, September 2017.

Matt Ridings - Innovation As A Purpose

The move to social requires systemic change, as we all know, but sometimes "the people that power those systems are fraught with flaws"—which express themselves as a lack of innate curiosity, a low risk tolerance, or simply a culture of distrust.

When driving organizational change, you have two ways to address the "human element." On the one hand, there's the culture. By stressing new values and organizational habits, you can influence attitudes and, ideally, bring people around.

However, to do so, Matt insists, "you have to foster an environment in which those desired culture traits can thrive," a process of "fostering" in which the actions and reactions of the leadership play a key role.

Playlists by Matt Ridings (XVA Labs)