88. The Power of the Corporate Why, with James Quigley

On this episode of The Innovation Engine, we talk with Canvas CEO James Quigley about the power of the corporate why. Among the topics we discuss are why establishing and communicating your corporate why is vital if you want to have inspired team members, how knowing what the corporate why is can fuel innovation on an individual level, and how a company called Canvas is revolutionizing the way data is submitted and collected through mobile forms. 

James Quigley is the CEO & Co-Founder of Canvas. He has a long history of building successful wireless companies. Prior to Canvas, he was Vice President and Managing Director at inCode Wireless, which was later acquired by VeriSign. Other successful start-ups with which he has worked include Aether Systems, Orbcomm, and Peak Technologies (formerly a division of R.R. Donnelley). James has won numerous awards for corporate leadership, including being named one of 2012’s Top 50 CEOs by the Center for Innovative Technology, one of the top 20 global executives in his field by CLO Magazine and the World Supply Chain Forum, and one of the top 15 DC start-up CEOs to follow on Twitter. In 2007, his team designed and delivered a mobile solution that was used for tracking deadly global pandemics, an application that ultimately won the Motorola Wireless Solution of the Year Award.