The Billion Dollar Innovation Blueprint Within Pharma, Oil & Gas & Manufacturing
Uncovering the costly problems hiding in plain sight across oil & gas, pharma, and manufacturing
Powerful insights from leaders of known brands like:
Hidden Problems. Honest Conversations.
What Is The Innovation Blueprint Podcast?
The Billion Dollar Innovation Blueprint brings together leaders from oil & gas, pharma, and manufacturing for candid conversations about the hidden inefficiencies costing their industries millions. We skip the corporate spin to explore the real operational challenges, the opportunities everyone else overlooks, and the solutions that shouldn't work but do.
No vendor pitches. No consultant speak. Just honest insights from executives who've found massive value where others weren't even looking.
Meet Your Host
Phil brings a unique perspective to conversations about operational blind spots in traditional industries. As someone who understands both the promise and reality of digital transformation, he knows the right questions to ask—and more importantly, when to just listen.
What makes Phil different? He's genuinely curious about the unglamorous problems that don't make it into case studies. The failed projects that taught you more than the successes. The "obvious" inefficiencies that aren't obvious at all when you're deep in the operational weeds.
Phil approaches each conversation with the understanding that every industry has its own complexity that outsiders rarely grasp. He's not here to prescribe silicon valley solutions to oil field problems, or pretend that pharma compliance is just a minor detail.
Instead, he creates a space where executives can share what's really happening—the workarounds that became standard practice, the million-dollar problems hiding in spreadsheets, and the solutions that worked for reasons nobody expected.
Why Leaders Open Up to Phil: He's more interested in understanding your actual challenges than promoting predetermined solutions. Each conversation is a genuine exchange of insights, where both sides learn something unexpected.
Why Industry Leaders In Pharma, Manufacturing & Oil & Gas Tune In:
Find out what your competitors know (and don't know) – Hear candid insights from peers across oil & gas, pharma, and manufacturing about the problems they're solving and the ones they're still missing
Discover expensive problems hiding in your own operations – Every episode reveals blind spots that listeners recognize in their own organizations, often worth millions in efficiency gains
Learn which "best practices" are actually worst practices – Get the real story on why certain industry standards and conventional solutions fail in practice
Steal solutions that actually work – Not theoretical frameworks, but battle-tested approaches from executives who've already paid the price of learning
Validate your hunches – Finally hear other leaders admit to the same "crazy" observations you've been making about industry inefficiencies
Get intelligence without consultants – Access peer-level insights without the six-figure engagement or generic recommendations
Prepare for board conversations – Arm yourself with industry insights and emerging trends your board members are likely hearing about
Spot opportunities before they become obvious – Learn where forward-thinking peers are placing bets and finding value in overlooked areas
Feel less alone in the complexity – Connect with the reality that every leader in traditional industries faces similar hidden challenges
Why You Should Be Our Next Guest:
Shape how your industry thinks about its blind spots – Your insights could help peers recognize million-dollar inefficiencies they're currently missing
Position yourself as a truth-teller, not just another executive – Stand out by sharing real operational insights instead of rehearsed corporate narratives
Control your narrative without PR handlers – Have an unfiltered conversation about what's actually working (and what isn't) in your organization
Build unexpected connections – Our listeners are senior executives facing similar challenges who value honest insights over polished presentations
Document your hard-won insights – Create a record of the valuable lessons you've learned that rarely get captured in official case studies
Give back without the time commitment – Share knowledge with industry peers in one focused conversation versus ongoing advisory roles or board positions
Explore ideas you can't discuss internally – Use this platform to think out loud about industry challenges in ways that might be too sensitive for internal meetings
Attract forward-thinking talent – Show potential employees and partners that you're willing to tackle the real problems, not just the comfortable ones
No prep, no pressure – Just show up and have a real conversation about the work you're already thinking about every day
Gain insights as much as you give them – Every guest learns something unexpected from the exchange of ideas that happens in these unscripted conversations
Testimonials
"Finally, a conversation about what actually keeps us up at night."
"I've done dozens of industry panels and podcasts, but they all want the same polished success story. Phil asked me about the problem we found hiding in our maintenance schedules—something I'd never discussed publicly. The conversation that followed was more valuable than our last quarterly board review. I left with three ideas I'm actually implementing, and my inbox lit up with messages from peers facing the exact same challenge. This is the conversation our industry needs to be having."
– VP Operations, Major North American Oil & Gas Company
"I learned more about my own blind spots than I expected to share."
"I went in thinking I'd share insights about our supply chain transformation. Instead, we ended up exploring why our industry accepts certain inefficiencies as 'just how things work.' Phil's questions made me realize we've been solving symptoms while ignoring a fundamental problem that's probably costing us millions annually. The other thing? Just genuine follow-ups from executives who resonated with what I shared. That's rare."
– Chief Innovation Officer, Global Pharmaceutical Manufacturer