About Us

Innovation Culture Group offers in-house training, train-the-trainer sessions, presentations and keynote addresses on topics related to building organizational capacity for ongoing innovation. Madan Birla Photo

Madan Birla, Founder and C.E.O. of Innovation Culture group, is a veteran of the “hard” side of business. In his 22 years at FedEx, he was Managing Director of Long-Range Operations Planning and Materials and Resource Planning before being named Managing Director in the company’s Leadership Institute. For eight years he worked closely with Fred Smith (Founder & CEO) and the senior management team in evaluating strategic ‘what-ifs’.

His book, ‘FedEx Delivers: How the World’s Leading Shipping Company Keeps Innovating and Outperforming the Competition’, has been translated into Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Korean and Thai. He is a regular speaker in Executive Education programs at Kellogg Management Institute, Northwestern, Tuck Business School, Dartmouth, Global Human Resource Forums, Indian School of Business, Singapore Institute of Management, and others.

Mary Lou Nowak, SPHR, a certified HR professional with 24 years of corporate management and small business experience in human resources, operations, and marketing before going out on her own to provide project management, innovative educational initiatives and marketing co-ops for mid-sized business and professional associations.  Mary Lou is an active member of the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM), most recently holding the position of the Garden State Council Marketing Director for the SHRM association in New Jersey and running the Careers-In-Transition program that she founded for the Central NJ SHRM Chapter.  She has a B.A. degree from Muhlenberg College.