Crowd Resources Consulting LLC

Crowd Resources Consulting, LLC was formed in 2019 to help organizations better understand the methods and approaches to creating a culture of innovation and adopt practical tools like open innovation.    Steve Rader has experience with many different federal agencies and companies on innovation programs.  He has led the execution of over 100 crowd-based challenges and projects.  Steve is  one of 13 mentors for government prizes and challenges for U.S. federal agencies.   He speaks and lectures around the world at conferences, workshops, and universities. He is a skilled facilitator that is able to work with organizations to understand problems, apply innovative solution seeking methods, establish programs and cultures focused on innovation, and advise on trends in the future of work.

Steve  has been engaged in open innovation and crowdsourcing since 2011.   He has worked at NASA for over 30 years where he has helped to lead and grow an enterprise open innovation program since he joined NASA's Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation as its deputy program manager in 2013 and as program manager in 2021.   Steve has a mechanical engineering degree from Rice University.