Innovation Expert Debbie Schwartz on the “five things your company should consider in order to create an innovative and adaptable culture”

Technology and consumer behavior are changing so rapidly that even if your organization has a successful product or service or seems “too big to fail,” if you miss the changes happening around you, your organization is ripe for disruption.

As a part of my series about strong female leaders, I had the pleasure of interviewing Debbie Schwartz, chief innovation consultant at Blank Page Advisory. Debbie helps organizations build the innovation competency required to adapt to a quickly evolving consumer and technological landscape. Debbie has applied her expertise in developing solutions for challenging, deeply-felt problems across a range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, technology and education (so far).

Thank you so much for doing this with us Debbie! Can you tell us a story about what brought you to this specific career path?

I was always a change agent, both as an entrepreneur and within companies of all sizes, but I took the turn into corporate innovation at Transamerica, a global…