Podcast appearances and mentions of katherine manuel

Gabby Hall, Social Media Manager at Women Who Code, interviews Katherine Manuel, Chief Operating Officer and a Board Director of House of Blueberry. They discuss the importance of networking for beginning, changing, or expanding your career path. Katherine shares how the pandemic influenced her drive to enter the gaming industry, leading to Blueberry Entertainment.

Long before the pandemic accelerated all things digital, House of Blueberry was selling digital fashion.  Founder and CEO Mishi Mcduff started House of Blueberry as an outfitter of Second Life avatars in 2012. In the 11 years since, the company has sold more than 20 million units of digital clothing across 10,000 SKUs. It's also collaborated with fashion brands including Jonathan Simkhai and hosted the first metaverse fashion show. It currently has a customer base of nearly 500,000 and growing.  House of Blueberry's chief operating officer, Katherine Manuel, joined the company just over a year ago after spending more than a decade at the data firm Thomson Reuters. In her last four years with Thomson Reuters, she was its vp of innovation. Manuel said she realized the potential for gaming platforms while watching her daughters use Roblox to socialize at the height of the pandemic. And, as these platforms increasingly connect technology and art, their impact over the next 10 years is set to be “mind-blowing,” she said.  House of Blueberry, therefore, is well positioned. “We're a digital-first company,” Manuel said on the latest episode of the Glossy Podcast. “We're really forward-thinking about fashion, but [fashion] entirely for avatars.”  Manuel also discussed current investor interest in digital fashion, and the ways digital and physical fashion can work to each other's advantage. 

Simone Ahuja, Author of Disrupt-It-Yourself: Eight Ways to Hack a Better Business---Before the Competition Does, researches barriers that are preventing large companies from innovating internally. Brian Ardinger, Founder of Inside Outside Innovation talks with Simone about these innovation barriers and what managers and leaders can do to support innovators.  Highlights from the discussion: Why is it so hard to innovate? - Lack of alignment - Disconnect between senior leaders and feet on the street. Lack of knowledge in the middle. Innovation is a relatively new discipline. There's a difference in metrics and incentives. Need to establish new metrics at all levels, creating space for innovation. - Innovation is different in companies that are large and older, where culture is deep. Not specific to the industry. - Need to encourage people to put forward innovative ideas (Value-creation innovation). It’s the pathway to innovation, but not everyone has to be an innovator or intrapreneur. Innovation Principles - Who is innovating inside large organizations or as a side hustle? How do we harness that? Engage people so they feel satisfied and want to stay around. Only 14% of college grads want to work in large corporations e.g., Medtronic. - How do you identify those people? Managers seem to know who they are. Action-oriented and risk-taking. Don’t know how to support them. Need to provide “air cover.” Built on trust, autonomy, and space. Assisting people in transitional innovation.  - Managers need to have the Idea of fluid and agility. How do you manage info and change? How do we create flexibility in our organizations? What’s exciting you about this space? - Optimistic that innovation is becoming more of a discipline. - The human side of innovation. Passion and purpose and why to harness it.  To find out more, you can purchase Simon’s book Disrupt-It-Yourself: Eight Ways to Hack a Better Business---Before the Competition Does or learn more at www.Blood-orange.com or on Twitter @simoneahuja. If you enjoyed this podcast, you might also enjoy: Ep. 124 - Amy Radin, Author of The Change Maker's Playbook & FinTech Guru, Ep. 109 - Greg Larkin, Corporate Entrepreneur and Author of “This Might Get Me Fired, and Ep. 78 - Katherine Manuel w/ Thomson Reuters. Find this episode of Inside Outside Innovation at insideoutside.io. You can also listen on Acast, iTunes, Sticher, Spotify, and Google Play FREE INNOVATION NEWSLETTER Get the latest episodes of the Inside Outside Innovation podcast, in addition to thought leadership in the form of blogs, innovation resources, videos, and invitations to exclusive events. SUBSCRIBE HERE For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Simone Ahuja, Author of Disrupt-It-Yourself: Eight Ways to Hack a Better Business---Before the Competition Does and founder of Blood Orange, researches barriers that are preventing large companies from innovating internally. Brian Ardinger, Founder of Inside Outside Innovation talks with Simone about these innovation barriers and what managers and leaders can do to support innovators.  Highlights from the discussion: Why is it so hard to innovate? - Lack of alignment - Disconnect between senior leaders and feet on the street. Lack of knowledge in the middle. Innovation is a relatively new discipline. There's a difference in metrics and incentives. Need to establish new metrics at all levels, creating space for innovation. - Innovation is different in companies that are large and older, where culture is deep. Not specific to the industry. - Need to encourage people to put forward innovative ideas (Value-creation innovation). It’s the pathway to innovation, but not everyone has to be an innovator or intrapreneur. Innovation Principles - Who is innovating inside large organizations or as a side hustle? How do we harness that? Engage people so they feel satisfied and want to stay around. Only 14% of college grads want to work in large corporations e.g., Medtronic. - How do you identify those people? Managers seem to know who they are. Action-oriented and risk-taking. Don’t know how to support them. Need to provide “air cover.” Built on trust, autonomy, and space. Assisting people in transitional innovation.  - Managers need to have the Idea of fluid and agility. How do you manage info and change? How do we create flexibility in our organizations? What’s exciting you about this space? - Optimistic that innovation is becoming more of a discipline. - The human side of innovation. Passion and purpose and why to harness it.  To find out more, you can purchase Simon’s book Disrupt-It-Yourself: Eight Ways to Hack a Better Business---Before the Competition Does or learn more at www.Blood-orange.com or on Twitter @simoneahuja. If you enjoyed this podcast, you might also enjoy: Ep. 124 - Amy Radin, Author of The Change Maker's Playbook & FinTech Guru, Ep. 109 - Greg Larkin, Corporate Entrepreneur and Author of “This Might Get Me Fired, and Ep. 78 - Katherine Manuel w/ Thomson Reuters. Find this episode of Inside Outside Innovation at insideoutside.io. You can also listen on Acast, iTunes, Sticher, Spotify, and Google Play FREE INNOVATION NEWSLETTER Get the latest episodes of the Inside Outside Innovation podcast, in addition to thought leadership in the form of blogs, innovation resources, videos, and invitations to exclusive events. SUBSCRIBE HERE For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

What’s needed to innovate and prepare local communities for the future? New research sheds light on the thinking of county executives and county CIOs about applying technology to best diagnose and solve for critical governance challenges. Katherine Manuel, Senior Vice President for Innovation at Thomson Reuters, chats with:   -Joe Morris, VP of Research for e.Republic governing magazine -David Bessen, IT Director, Arapahoe County, CO -Keith Nichols, Managing Director, Government

Katherine Manuel, senior vice president for innovation discusses why secure land rights are vital to reducing poverty and building a thriving community with: Klaus Deininger, Lead Land Economist at the World Bank, Elizabeth Stair, CEO of the Jamaican National Land Agency, James Kavanaugh, Director of the Land Division at the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and Chris Barlow, Senior Marketing Director for Thomson Reuters Tax & Accounting business. 

Katherine Manuel, senior vice president for innovation at Thomson Reuters is joined by Sergeant Gary Schuelke from the San Bernardino police Department and Dan DeSimone, senior director, investigative resources at Thomson Reuters here to discuss how technology is changing the way we fight crime.  Advances like big data, artificial intelligence and behavioral analytics are helping police departments keep pace with ever-more resourceful criminals.  Learn more: https://tmsnrt.rs/2IXc6t9

A conversation on Blockchain technology hosted by Katherine Manuel, Senior Vice President of Innovation in Strategy/Business Development, featuring Thomson Reuters experts: Jordan Kleinsmith - Director, Innovation in Strategy/Business Development Joseph Raczynski - Manager, Technical Client Management in Professional & Consulting Services Sam Chadwick - Director of Strategy in Innovation and Blockchain in Strategy/Business Development For an in-depth read, check out more insights at: https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/reports/blockchain.html

A conversation on Partnership with experts from Thomson Reuters. Katherine Manuel hosts with guests Melanie Childress Carucci, Irish McIntyre and Barry Dooney.

A conversation on ESG with experts from Thomson Reuters. Katherine Manuel hosts with guests Dawn Emling, Elena Philipova, Robert Jenkins 

A conversation on AI with experts from Thomson Reuters. Katherine Manuel hosts with guests Charlotte Rushton, Noelle Campbell, and Tonya Curtis. 

A conversation on digital identity with experts from Thomson Reuters. Katherine Manuel hosts with guests Bob Schukai, Steve Rubley and Asif Alam. 

A conversation on innovation with experts from Thomson Reuters. Katherine Manuel and Sarah McSweeny host with guests Brian Ulciny and Brian Zubert.

Katherine Manuel is the senior vice president of innovation at Thomson Reuters. She has had a vast and varied journey in innovation before coming into her present role a couple years ago. In her conversation with our host Brian Ardinger she talked about the real details of innovation at Thomson Reuters including some specific campaigns they ran to develop thinkers who go outside the boundaries. Katherine also shared some specific advice for people who might be new to a similar role as the one she is in. Learn more about Katherine’s team at innovation.thomsonreuters.com and our team at econic.co. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

An excellent podcast with Katherine Manuel, Senior Vice President of Innovation at Thomson Reuters.