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2. After two weeks of torrid voting and much passionate support, along with a lot of gut-wrenching consideration
and jostling during the judging round, I am proud to announce your Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2013:
1. Jeffrey Baumgartner
Jeffrey Baumgartner is the author of the book, The Way of the Innovation Master; the
author/editor of Report 103, a popular newsletter on creativity and innovation in business. He is
currently developing and running workshops around the world on Anticonventional Thinking, a
radical new approach to achieving goals through creativity — and an alternative to brainstorming.
2. Paul Hobcraft
Paul Hobcraft runs Agility Innovation, an advisory business that stimulates sound innovation
practice, researches topics that relate to innovation for the future, as well as aligning innovation to
organizations core capabilities.
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3. Gijs van Wulfen
Gijs van Wulfen helps organizations to structure the chaotic start of innovation as author, speaker
and facilitator. He is the founder of the FORTH innovation method and author of the innovation
bestseller The Innovation Expedition. He was chosen by LinkedIn as one of their first 150
Influencers.
4. Jeffrey Phillips
Jeffrey Phillips is a senior leader at OVO Innovation. OVO works with large distributed
organizations to build innovation teams, processes and capabilities. Jeffrey is the author of
Relentless Innovation and the blog Innovate on Purpose.
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5. Mike Shipulski
Mike Shipulski brings together people, culture, and tools to change engineering behavior. He
writes daily on Twitter as @MikeShipulski and weekly on his blog Shipulski On Design.
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6. Greg Satell
Greg Satell is an internationally recognized authority on Digital Strategy and Innovation. He is a
speaker and consultant for digital innovation, innovation management, digital marketing and
publishing, as well as offshore web and app development. Follow Greg @digitaltonto.

4. 7. Holly G Green
Holly is the CEO of THE HUMAN FACTOR, Inc. (www.TheHumanFactor.biz) and is a highly sought
after and acclaimed speaker, business consultant, and author. Her unique approach to creating
strategic agility, helping others go slow to go fast, will change your thinking.
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8. Braden Kelley
Braden Kelley is an experienced innovation speaker, content marketing strategist,
innovation trainer, inbound marketer, and social business architect. He is the author of
Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire and has been advising companies on how to increase
their revenue and cut their costs since 1996. Braden writes frequently on the topic of
continuous innovation and works with clients to create innovative strategies, effective
customer marketing, organizational change, and improved organizational performance.
He has maximized profits for companies while living and working in England, Germany,
and the United States. Braden earned his MBA from top-rated London Business School.
He is @innovate on Twitter.
9. Tim Kastelle
Tim Kastelle is a Lecturer in Innovation Management in the University of Queensland Business
School. He blogs about innovation at the Innovation Leadership Network.
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10. Steve Todd
Steve Todd is an EMC Fellow and author of the books Innovate With Influence and Innovate With
Global Influence. As an EMC Intrapreneur with 200+ patents filed, Steve is a Top 10 Innovation
Blogger and EMC’s Vice President of Strategy and Innovation.
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5. 11. Stefan Lindegaard
Stefan Lindegaard is a speaker, network facilitator and strategic advisor who focus on the topics of
open innovation, intrapreneurship and how to identify and develop the people who drive
innovation.
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12. Richard Hughes-Jones
Richard Hughes-Jones is an experienced management consultant, having spent most of his career
with Deloitte UK and working in a senior management role for Her Majesty’s Treasury. He now
works with high growth businesses, bringing strategic business thinking to support sustainable
growth. Richard blogs about a range of business issues at FireLDN and is on Twitter @FireLDN
13. Robert F Brands
Robert Brands is the founder of InnovationCoach.com, and the author of “Robert’s Rules of
Innovation: A 10-Step Program for Corporate Survival,” with Martin Kleinman – published Spring
2010 by Wiley (www.robertsrulesofinnovation.com).

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14. Deborah Mills-Scofield
Deb, founder of Mills-Scofield LLC, is an innovator, entrepreneur and non-traditional strategist
with 20 years experience in industries ranging from the Internet to Manufacturing with
multinationals to start ups. She is also a partner at Glengary LLC, a Venture Capital Firm.
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15. Nicolas Bry
Nicolas Bry is a Senior VP at Orange. He’s developed strong expertise in innovation management,
creating digital business units with international challenges. He completed a professional thesis on
rapid innovation at HEC Business School.
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16. Kevin McFarthing
Kevin McFarthing runs the Innovation Fixer consultancy, helping companies to improve the output
and efficiency of their innovation, and to implement Open Innovation. He spent 17 years with
Reckitt Benckiser in innovation leadership positions, and also has experience in life sciences.
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17. Mike Brown
Mike Brown is an award-winning innovator in strategy, communications, and experience marketing.
He authors the BrainzoomingTM blog, and serves as the company’s chief Catalyst. He wrote the
ebook “Taking the NO Out of InNOvation” and is a frequent keynote presenter.
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18. Miriam Clifford
Miriam Clifford holds a Masters in Teaching from City University and a Bachelor in Science from
Cornell. She loves research and is passionate about education. She is a foodie and on her time off
enjoys cooking and gardening. You can find her @miriamoclifford or Google+.
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7. mike@shipulski.com

8. 19. Peter Cook
Peter Cook is Rock’n’Roll Innovation Editor at Innovation Excellence. He leads Human Dynamics
and The Academy of Rock, and provides Keynote speaking, Organisation Development and
Business Coaching. You can follow him on twitter @Academyofrock and contact him for a copy of
his book Punk Rock Business.
20. Adam Hartung
Adam Hartung, author of “Create Marketplace Disruption“, is a Faculty and Board member of the
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, Managing Partner of Spark Partners, and writes for
“Forbes” and the “Journal for Innovation Science.”
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21. Kevin Riley
Kevin Riley is an entrepreneur, healthcare executive, and business model innovator who works
with start-ups and legacy companies across the healthcare industry. He founded and was CEO of a
national health care retail company, has played leadership roles for national retail health start-ups,
and served as the first Chief Innovation Officer of a major insurance plan. In 2006 he started Kevin
Riley & Associates Health Model Innovation to help companies with the convergence of health
care and the consumer.
22. Donna Sturgess
Donna Sturgess is the President and Co-founder of Buyology Inc and former Global Head of
Innovation for GlaxoSmithKline. Her latest book is Eyeballs Out: How To Step Into Another World,
Discover New Ideas, and Make Your Business Thrive

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11. 26. Stephen Shapiro
Stephen Shapiro is the author of five books including “Best Practices Are Stupid” and “Personality
Poker” (both published by Penguin). He is also a popular innovation speaker and business advisor.
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27. Paul Sloane
Paul Sloane writes, speaks and leads workshops on creativity, innovation and leadership. He is the
author of The Innovative Leader and editor of A Guide to Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing,
both published by Kogan-Page.
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28. Matthew E May
Matthew E. May is founder of EDIT Innovation and author most recently of The Laws of
Subtraction: 6 Simple Rules for Winning in the Age of Excess Everything.
29. Rowan Gibson
Rowan Gibson is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on enterprise innovation.
He is a co-founder of Innovation Excellence and author of the bestseller Innovation to the Core.
Rowan Gibson is a much in-demand public speaker around the globe. On Twitter he is
@RowanGibson

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13. 33. Jorge Barba
Jorge Barba is an Innovation Insurgent and is the Creative Strategist at Blu Maya, a San Diego
based Digital Marketing Firm that helps organizations build their online business with strategy
development for new products and services. He’s also the author of the innovation blog Game
Changer. And lastly, you can follow him on Twitter @jorgebarba.
34. Drew Boyd
Drew Boyd is Assistant Professor of Marketing and Innovation at the University of Cincinnati and
Executive Director of the MS-Marketing program. Follow him at www.innovationinpractice.com
and at http://twitter.com/drewboyd
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35. Linda Bernardi
Linda Bernardi is a Technology Strategist, Investor, and Founder & CEO at StraTerra Partners, The
Bernardi Leadership Institute and a Strategic Advisor at Cloudant Inc. She is also the Author of
Provoke, Why the Global Culture of Disruption is the Only Hope for Innovation. Learn more here
about Linda’s work on disrupting large enterprise analytics.

14. 36. Nicholas Skillicorn
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37. Kamal Hassan
Kamal Hassan is President and CEO of Innovation 360 Institute, an innovation management and
operation advisory group based in Dubai. Mr. Hassan works with public and private organizations
on business model innovation, innovation strategy, innovation project execution and
organizational change. He leads international workshops on Business Model Innovation.
www.i360institute.com.
38. Doug Williams
Doug Williams, Chief Research Officer, leads the development of IX Research. Doug is the primary
author of IX Research‘s syndicated research reports, and is responsible for the development of the
IX Research Panel and IX Custom Research lines of business. A former analyst at both Forrester
Research and JupiterResearch, he launched and led Forrester’s innovation and co-creation practice
for product strategy professionals. Doug tweets from @DougWilliamsMHD.
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39. Kate Hammer
Based in London, Kate Hammer is a commercial storyteller, creativity and courage
coach, honoured in her first year of blogging to be named as an Innovation Excellence
Top 40 blogger in 2013. Creator of StoryFORMs, Kate helps teams learn how to distill
a core story, be relevant and make a difference – very handy if you are innovating.
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40. Gregg Fraley
Gregg Fraley is an author, speaker, and innovation consultant. His deep background in
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worked with many prominent brands and start-ups. Gregg is a noted expert on structured
innovation process – his business novel Jack’s Notebook features on reading lists at U Cal
Berkeley, St. John’s and Cambridge Judge School. Gregg speaks with passion and humor –
he informs audiences with deeply practical advice and cutting edge new innovation
frameworks, tools and techniques. He entertains -- drawing on his Emmy winning
experiences in television and improv training with Players Workshop of Second City. He’s
spoken to Associations like the American Assoc. of Design Professionals and at conferences
around the globe including TEDxNASA, ESOMAR, FUSE, CREA and CPSI.
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If your favorite didn’t make the list, then next year try to rally more votes for them or convince them to become an
Innovation Excellence contributing author and they’ll earn more points based on the quality of their contributions.
Our lists from the three previous years have been tremendously popular:
Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2010 (download the PDF)
Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2011 (download the PDF)
Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2012 (download the PDF)

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