How Olympic Athletes and Le Mans Racers Spark Innovation

What can high jumpers and race car drivers teach you about workplace innovation? Explore how athletic innovation fuels breakthrough thinking—and what it means for your next brainstorming session.

• The Fosbury Flop: How one athlete's radical innovation changed high jumping forever.
• Le Mans Innovation: What endurance racing reveals about continuous improvement.
• Incremental vs. Radical: Understanding different innovation approaches and when to use each.
• Ideas That Stick: Why some innovations land perfectly while others crash and burn.
• Brainstorming Lessons: Apply athletic innovation principles to corporate creativity.

Full episode explores innovation in Olympic disciplines and Le Mans racing with practical business applications.

Learn how innovation has fueled (pun very much intended) the sport of Le Mans, which attributes are necessary for athletes to jump higher, and how these same principles help high performers in your organization present ideas that stick the landing. Dive into different innovation approaches—incremental versus radical—and what that means for your approach in the next company brainstorming session. Discover why some innovations transform entire industries while others fade away, how constraints drive creative breakthroughs in competitive sports, and practical frameworks for applying athletic innovation principles to business challenges. Whether you're leading innovation initiatives or contributing ideas, these surprising parallels will change how you think about creativity.