Organizations must embrace disruptive innovation or they will not survive in today’s business environment. No longer are lean operations and continual improvement sufficient. Driven by technology and business model innovation, we are moving from linear to exponential growth. Both incremental and disruptive solutions are required.For many successful companies, meeting current customer demands leaves little time for innovation. Executives keep doing what made them successful while the world changes. Survival, however, depends on continually creating new growth engines. Based on his extensive experience bridging the entrepreneurial and corporate worlds, Phil loves helping successful organizations move innovation, entrepreneruship and disruption into the C-suite.His recent venture, E|SPACES, INC., is an industry-disruptive solution that is redefining how people think about the office and work.As a principal in an early-stage investment firm, Phil consulted with and served on boards of portfolio companies including Passport Health Communications, an industry-disruptive healthcare technology company.The consulting firm he founded and led for over a decade, Executive Learning, Inc., was one of the country’s leading change agents focused on continual improvement in healthcare and included work with industry giant HCA and the prestigious Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston.Phil’s commitment to innovation is grounded in theory and began with his Ph.D. dissertation at The Ohio State University focused on how organizations achieve both high productivity and high innovation.His experience spans manufacturing, technology and healthcare, and includes studying improvement and innovation in multiple global cities, and teaching strategy and organizational behavior at the MBA level.