PODCAST: Believe in your power to innovate

Everyone can be an innovator, says Vermont Federal Credit Union’s Doug Robinson.

Doug Robinson believes innovation might benefit from a well-thought-out public relations campaign.

“When you think of the term ‘innovator,’ you’re probably thinking of a Steve Jobs type character who’s [wearing] a black turtleneck and holding up some piece of shiny, new, breakthrough technology,” says Robinson, director of innovation and strategy at $556 million asset Vermont Federal Credit Union in Burlington. “Those are big shoes to fill in my opinion. And from my experience, a lot of people don’t believe they are innovators.”

But in a recent interview with the CUNA News Podcast, Robinson stresses that everyone has permission to be innovative and therefore, anyone can be considered an innovator.

 

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