For the past three years, I’ve been a consultant with Innovation Crossroads, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Lab Embedded Entrepreneurship Program (LEEP). I work with the Fellows to develop their technologies, business models, and teams so they can help solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. We just completed this year’s Leadership Council meeting where we heard from finalists invited to the lab to pitch their business opportunity. I was honored to be included among the stakeholders tasked with evaluating them.