Scaling innovation today demands contributions from multiple partners. Many innovations fail not because of flawed ideas but because teams and organizations struggle to collaborate across boundaries. What’s needed is a particular kind of leader: the bridger. Bridgers excel at curating the right partners, translating across their differing ways of working, and integrating their efforts to maintain momentum. Bridgers’ effectiveness stems from both emotional intelligence and contextual intelligence. They understand each stakeholder’s environment, pressures, and values and know how to adapt from one context to another. The authors use real-world examples to illustrate how bridgers accelerate innovation. And they describe how firms can identify and develop bridgers of their own. Adapted from the authors’ book Genius at Scale (Harvard Business Review Press, 2026), this article offers a playbook for building a rare but critical kind of leadership.

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