Founding Partner, InnoEngine. Practical Innovation. Storytelling. Engagement. Cultural intelligence. Helping communities & organizations get unstuck.
Joined November 2008
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A bit about what I’ve been up to work wise in the first few months of 2026…
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ICYMI: An update on what’s been happening with me and with our team at InnoEngine over the past few months. substack.com/@samfordky/note…
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Appreciate the National Civic League giving a shoutout to our civic imagination work on The BG 2050 Project in their piece about @CityofBGKY being a finalist as an “All-America City” for America 250.
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For three years, InnoEngine has been working with our Imagination Lead @sangitacivics on a civic imagination approach to bring leaders in a region together to collectively imagine the future of their place, confirm key shared values they want to preserve and grow…
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Excited to unveil this next milestone in our civic imagination work on @bg2050project last week! Per @bgdailynews:
“Very, very encouraging.”
This is how @DougGorman1 summed up the final report of the multi-year @bg2050project.
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.@cityofbgky is one of the Top 20 Finalists for the All-America City Award competition for America 250. Excited to have InnoEngine’s work on @bg2050project front and center in the application! wnky.com/bowling-green-in-to…
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InnoEngine is fortunate to be able to work with a range of innovative, scaling companies—like our client @shawnrubel @Vecteezy, which has bootstrapped their way to running a large, global two-sided marketplace for digital design/creative assets.
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Last night, InnoEngine was proud to be honored by @BFLouisville as a Startup to Watch in 2026. Great to see so many friends/collaborators from across Kentucky’s innovation ecosystem and for our team to join founders from three other startups to represent our HQ city @CityofBGKY!
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Thanks to the team @HarvardAsh for including our civic imagination work in Bowling Green on @bg2050project and our What Could BG Be? initiative conducted with the @Google @Jigsaw team in this review of deliberative public input technologies. ash.harvard.edu/resources/th…
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Feb 25
Final reminder: tomorrow is our Startup Garden with CREATE Programs Director Buddy Steen and @WarrenCountyGov Judge Executive @DougGorman1, moderated by CREATE Innovation Fellow @Sam_Ford.
RSVP here: eventbrite.com/e/startupgard…
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Enjoyed talking our BG 2050 work at InnoEngine & applying civic imagination to Massively Multistakeholder Ongoing Regional Placemaking Groups & to wide-scale public deliberation alongside @sangitacivics recently for the Getting Smart podcast.
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Our region just north of Nashville is growing fast. And we know that tech-enabled and innovation-led talent and companies will play a significant role in the next 25 years.
Come join us! RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/startupgard…
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It’s been a pleasure working on a Massively Multistakeholder Ongoing Regional Placemaking Group project (yes, MMORPG) harnessing civic imagination methods to imagine and build the future place we want to see with @bg2050project. We will discuss that and lots more!
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Honored to be profiled by the great team at The Onion! Thanks for calling attention to my work.
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We have coined my favorite acronym in a long time now at InnoEngine, and you can’t stop us!
Massively Multistakeholder Ongoing Regional Placemaking Groups (MMORPGs)
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Thanks to Peter Spear for inviting me on his latest That Business of Meaning podcast!
“We realized we were chasing the same questions—and we had independently developed similar approaches…”
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