Most corporate innovation programs fail. This is because most of what makes innovation so powerful contradicts conventional management thinking. It requires a step-change in innovation and creative leadership capabilities to prevent costly mistakes.
Our customized and experiential innovation and creative leadership programs empower your leaders—and their teams—to unlock value-creating new products, services, and business models and support them to drive forward innovations with confidence, competence, and courage.
“Inspirational yet incredibly strategic with long-term exponential value creation.”
Head of Mobile Division, Microsoft
Creative & Innovation Leadership Programs Customized To Your Unique Culture & Strategy
We tailor every program to fit your unique culture, industry, innovation history (including failures and traumas), long-term strategy, and ambitions—and help you choose which process stages, tools, and leadership capabilities you want leaders to focus on: from problem definition to smart experimentation, from customer insights to pitching for resources, from sustainable innovation to multi-horizon implementation roadmapping
Derisk Innovation With Our Proven Process & Tools
Leaders explore how to deploy financial and human resources effectively to deliver breakthrough innovation outcomes using our 8-stage process and toolset perfected through running 100+ high-profile innovation projects for orgs like Microsoft, Tesco, BBC, Vodafone, Diageo, Unilever, Virgin, Oxfam, Genentech, Novartis
Safely Explore Digital Technologies (AI, Blockchain, CRISPR) That Can Disrupt Markets
Leaders explore how to leverage the unique capabilities of 4th Industrial Revolution technologies—from AI to Blockchain to CRISPR—to reveal the business models of the future that can disrupt competitors and prevent disruption from more nimble start-ups
Learn From Leading Breakthrough Innovation Practitioners
Leaders gain direct insight, tips, hacks, coaching, feedback, and knowledge transfer from world-class innovation practitioners who lead high-stakes innovation programs in multinationals who transit their learning from doing, and learning from mistakes to your leaders
Pre-Empt Pitfalls To Lead Teams To Successful Innovation
Leaders understand the predictable moments in the 8-stage innovation where leadership failures drive costly mistakes, wasted efforts, burnt bridges, organizational trauma, and employee disappointment and disengagement—and embody and embed the leadership wisdom needed to avoid these errors in future
Experience & Experiment With 40+ Powerful Innovation Tools
Learn how to successfully use some of our 40+ innovation tools to progress breakthroughs from business purpose to implementation roadmaps in a structured way that blends rigor and creativity as leaders practice using the tools on live business problems in a psychologically safe yet strategically brave space
Build Essential Creative & Collaborative Leadership Capabilities
Explore how to successfully unleash creativity in any team or group, keep ideas safe from organizational immune systems, stop processes and organization lag and friction from crushing creativity, and lead different forms of cross-functional and cross-industry collaborations
Sharpen Strategic Thinking With Cutting-Edge Foresight
Learn how to harness techniques that unlock different lenses on the future to ensure your innovation teams can make sense of the VUCA complexity and identify the right problems—those that unlock transformative solutions—not those that will lead to merely incremental improvements
Learn How To Proactively Manage Key Stakeholders For Exponential Value Creation
Develop relational and systemic leadership skills so leaders can elegantly engage diverse stakeholders, manage competing demands and organizational tensions, and harness effective storytelling to pitch for resources in the right way
Leverage Purpose & Sustainability For Regenerative Innovation
Help your leaders identify and unlock the value of organizational purpose to guide innovation efforts, harness discretionary effort, maximize talent engagement and retention, and bake in social impact and sustainability from the start
Build A Shared Language, Process & Culture of Innovation
Create a shared foundation of innovation knowledge, language, process, tools, and experience; build trust, reciprocity, and cohesion as a force of innovation; transform past innovation pain and failures; and help leaders cope with the inherent tensions and anxieties of genuine innovation
Unleash Deep Insight, Empathy & Curiosity In Leaders
Cultivate the skills of radical empathy, human-centered insight, active listening, and beginner’s mind that are critical for successful innovation leadership—and use the program to develop these capabilities that are essential for leading high-performing and adaptive teams in VUCA realities
Learn Innovation Coaching & Leadership Techniques
We build into programs peer-powered and professional coaching, opportunities for group reflection and feedback, and time/space/permission to integrate new ways of thinking and new innovation habits into everyday work
“Extraordinarily rigorous and strategic—yet also had a creative passion that led to breakthrough ideas designed to serve new customer needs.”
Brand Director, Virgin Atlantic
See What Our Customized & Experiential Leadership Development Programs Look & Feel Like
“Amazing. Really eye-opening and inspirational.”
Head of Region, Tech Company
“Both a compass and a Gale Force 9 wind!”
Chief Marketing Officer, Tesco
Transformative Leadership Development Programs With
Exquisitely Customized Design & Expert Facilitation
When you partner with us, your program will be designed and facilitated by seasoned transformation catalysts with decades of experience inspiring, coaching, leading, and holding space for executives to change. We all walk the talk as leaders in our own fields and enterprises.
We work in transparent and trusted collaboration with our clients to design and deliver exceptional leadership journeys that fit your specific cohort, history, dynamics, industry, culture, strategy, and ambitions.
100K+ Leaders Developed
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1000+ Teams Coached
Brain-Based Talent Development Expertise & Decades Of Business Experience & Entrepeneurial Acumen
We Include But Transcend Exec Education To Aim For Innovation, Strategy, Culture Change & Teamwork Outcomes Via Leadership Development
30 Years of Experience Across Most Industries & Able To Share Insights From Other Sectors
Rigorous, Detail-Focus & Evidence-Based & Agile, Responsive & Creative
Cohesive & Coherent Science-Based Curriculum & Methodology
We Go Beyond Training To Transform Mindsets, Behaviors & Company Cultures
We Customize To Fit Your Unique Culture, Context, Strategy, History, Industry & Challenges
We Leverage Powerful Expert-Led Interventions & The Sustainable Power of Peer-To-Peer Coaching & Support
We Host Brave, Safe & Transformative Leadership Journeys, Harnessing The Best Of In-Person Experiences, Virtual Engagements, Asynchronous Support & On-Demand Materials
We Invest As Much Budget As Possible On Impact On Your Leaders—Avoiding Bloating That Comes From Unnecessary Juniors & Program Managers–Working According To "Minimal Viable Project Management"
We Have An Proprietary & Proven Methodology, Lots Of Original IP & Uniquely Scalable & Sustainable Tools & Toolkits
We Are A Purpose-Driven, Beyond-Profit & High-Integrity Boutique Consultancy That Goes the Extra Mile For Every Client
We Have A Global Vision Combined With A Hyper-Local, Fit To Context And Local Customs Approach
We Always Provide The Personal Touch From The Principals + We Are Humble, Down-To-Earth & Highly Collaborative
“Amazing, amazing feedback from our leaders!”
Global HR Director, Intel
Our Game-Changing Approach To Leadership Development & Executive Retreats
Most leadership programs fail to deliver the results they promise because they are locked into an outdated training model that doesn't produce transformed leaders or concrete business impact.
With roots in strategy, innovation consulting, and the creative industries, and deep training in behavioral and brain science, we have developed a genuinely pioneering approach to maximize your leadership development investment by changing leaders as fast as humanly possible.
Comprehensive Self-To-System™ Leadership Curriculum
Over 25 years, we have researched, evolved, tested, and codified a coherent and cohesive "Self-to-System" leadership development curriculum that starts with how to change oneself and ends with how to transform systems.
State-Of-The-Art Transformative Interventions
We have developed a wide range of transformative interventions to unlock and sustain exceptional leadership. These range from peer-to-peer coaching to AI and breakthrough innovation fieldwork, all aimed at driving breakthroughs in how leaders feel, think, act, interact, communicate, and collaborate.
Experiential Leadership Development For Immersive Impact
We design original, high-concept signature experiences that combine immersive learning, quests, sensory surprises, and expert facilitation to create unforgettable, genuinely transformative leadership journeys.
Deep Design For Maximum ROI
Deep Design™ turns leadership development from a collection of interesting activities and interventions into an intentional journey that drives lasting change. The goal is to create the highest-impact developmental arc possible within the available time, budget, culture, and ambitions.
Transformational Facilitation & Catalysis
Our transformation catalysts do something different from conventional facilitation. They combine master facilitation with executive coaching, leadership development, strategy and innovation expertise, neuroscience, and deep transformation expertise to help participants change themselves and their enterprise in the room.
Science-Backed Theory For Rapid Change
Everything we do is built upon a neuroscience-based theory of leadership development, Bio-Transformation, or BTX®. We developed this methodology to ensure that all our activities work with, not against, the realities of human biology, so leaders transform as quickly as humanly possible.
“The most challenging and valuable leadership program I’ve been on. And I’ve been on a lot in 30 years!”
COO, Syngenta
Let's Start With a Conversation
No pitch, no pressure. Just a focused dialogue about your business and leadership challenges and whether we're the right partner to help.
You tell us what's happening in your organization, what feels stuck, what the future is demanding, and what your leaders need to be capable of next.
We'll show you what a transformative leadership development program or executive retreat could look like for your enterprise.