Part 1: TEDx Creator Krisztina "Z" Holly on Innovation, Impact, and Manufacturing
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2017
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Krisztina Holly is an MIT-trained engineer, tech entrepreneur, and pioneer. She was curator and host of the first ever TEDx (TEDxUSC) and founder of two university innovation centers at MIT and USC. She hosts The Art of Manufacturing podcast and is Chief Instigator of MAKE IT IN LA, LA Mayor Garcetti's non-profit initiative to celebrate and support the nation's largest community of makers and manufacturers. Previously, Krisztina was vice provost for innovation at USC and founding executive director of two innovation centers--MIT Deshpande Center and USC Stevens–which helped launch 39 funded startups and expand innovation ecosystems in Boston and LA. She has been adjunct Professor of Innovation Practice at USC and an advisor and board member to nearly two dozen non-profit and private sector organizations globally, including the Obama Administration and World Economic Forum. I wanted to have this conversation with her to learn how how she develops and innovates at a global scale. She has a track record for building platforms for ideas and people to make an impact. I hope that you will pay attention to how she thinks about risk and risk-taking -- and -- how she approaches authenticity and building, both herself, and others -- and being able to do that at scale.
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| 0:00.0 | Creativity is the generation of ideas. It's the thinking |
| 0:04.3 | imaginatively, whatever. You may be an inventor, you create one of something, |
| 0:08.6 | but innovation is then taking that idea or that one the thing for yourself. |
| 0:13.7 | It's almost like a very self-centered thing, creativity, |
| 0:17.2 | then turning it outward and making it make an impact in the world. All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Michael Jervay. All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. |
| 0:33.6 | I'm Michael Jervay. |
| 0:35.1 | And the idea behind these conversations is to learn. |
| 0:38.3 | Learn from people who are on the path of mastery, who have a rich point of view about it, who have put in the hard yards to understand the nuances, |
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