Innovation Currency

Innovation isn’t reserved for a select few—it belongs to all of us.  

Too often, the stories we tell about the world’s most celebrated innovators leave out people from varied backgrounds, identities, experiences, and geographies. Innovation Currency challenges that narrative. Innovation is not exclusive to Silicon Valley founders or corporate strategists—it’s a natural human practice that unfolds in classrooms, barbershops, community centers, and corner offices alike.

This book exposes how invisible structures—like culture, identity, and language—have distorted how we define and qualify innovators.  These barriers have long obscured a simple truth: innovation is for everyone.  With the right framework, anyone can discover their hidden innovator.

Developed through years of research, real-world observation, and qualitative inquiry, this book introduces the Innovation Currency® framework – a practical roadmap was designed to make innovation accessible, actionable, and personal. This book is your guide to unlocking your unique innovation style and using it to reimagine how to change the world around you.

Through compelling stories, practical insights, and a personalized assessment, you’ll learn how to:

• Distinguish innovation from creativity and idea generation

• Identify the internal and external barriers that stifle innovation

• Discover your unique innovation style and apply it in everyday life

• Maximize your innovative contributions within teams, classrooms, and organizations

Featuring four distinct styles—the Disruptor, the Connector, the Distributor, and the Influencer—this book offers a new model to understand how people innovate naturally (and where they have room to grow). Whether you're an entrepreneur, educator, student, policymaker, or community builder, Innovation Currency will help you develop more impactful solutions to challenges you encounter and the existential threats that face humanity and the planet.  Whether you’ve always seen yourself as an innovator—or never thought you could be one—this book is for you.

If you have ever asked yourself, "Am I an innovator?" then this book is for you.