How Success Happens

Matt Jozwiak is a chef by trade who knows the high quality ingredients left at the end of a restaurant dinner service often go to waste. It’s part of the reason he launched Rethink Food, a non-profit that transforms food that would otherwise be thrown away into delicious meals for hungry people. He'll tell us about why this simple solution required long chats with lawyers and the FDA and how his solution could even be a boon to low-margin food businesses. He'll also explain how he's been able to innovate quickly -- and the important role that humility and listening to others played in making that innovation happen.

Justin Schneider is an industrial designer who took the skills he honed designing athletic shoes for New Balance and Adidas to found Wolf & Shepherd, a line of performance dress shoes for men -- shoes that recently set an unofficial half marathon record at 1 hour 17 minutes. He’s also a decathlete who competed in track and field events while in college at Notre Dame. He’ll talk about the unique training decathletes endure -- and how that practice helps him even today as entrepreneur.

Kyle Nel runs Lowe's Innovation Lab but he's not your typical tech guy. He's a behavioral scientist who uses his knowledge of how people work together (or don't) to get big changes to happen. His methods are non-traditional -- like giving comic books to execs. But they've helped build exosuits, holorooms and get a 3D printer into space. He'll explain the importance of behavior and and story to making the most of any real opportunity.

What Adventure Can Teach Entrepreneurs

Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries: You Can't Outsource Knowledge

Contently's Shane Snow: Look for Patterns of Success

Steve Hindy of Brooklyn Brewery: Be Calm and Do the Work

Will Dean of Tough Mudder: Strategy Can Be What You Don't Do

Kathryn Minshew of The Muse: Decide Who You Are, or Have it Decided for You

Shamus Jones of Brooklyn Brine: Don't Get Precious with Your Passions

Judith Glaser: Conversation is the Most Underused Innovation Tool

Michael Martin of RapidSOS: Together We Go Further

Matt Thomas of Brawl for a Cause: Fight to Find Your Inner Hero

Steve Herz is President of The Montag Group, a sports and entertainment talent and marketing consultancy. He is also a career advisor to CEOs, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and young professionals. Prior to joining TMG, Steve was the President and Founding...