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
Extraordinary Leadership Development Programs With
Exquisite 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.
Leadership Programs Customized To Fit Your Unique Strategy, Culture & Industry
Design that embraces, speaks to, and dances with the mood music of the organization, the hidden rules in the culture, the self-talk and stories in the cohort, and the emotions in the room to weave together every engagement and interaction to forge a compelling and coherent leadership development journey and accompanying narrative arc.
Leadership Programs With Innovation, Originality & Business Impact At The Core
Design that makes the most out of each interaction and associated time, reputation, and budget costs—from high-touch, in-person workshops to online check-ins and circles to messaging app activations—to avoid awkward mistakes and costly wastage and
Leadership Programs That Deliver Desired Skills For Boards, Line Mangers & HR
Design that aims to serve different leadership styles and types—aiming to achieve a *perfect* balance of ideas, networking, processing time, relaxation, discussion, innovation, and activities—while meeting the needs of the leaders themselves, what the strategy demands, what employees would like, and what in-house HR business partners and OD/L&D experts have identified.
Leadership Programs That Deliver Both Immediate Traction & Long-Term Value Creation
Design that focuses first on building excitement, engagement, and traction within the demanding realities your leaders are working with—their lived context—and then crafting a developmental journey that meets them where they are at and then takes them considerably higher with powerful and relevant content and experiences.
Leadership Programs That Strengthen Both The Inner & Outer Games Of Leadership To Win The Future
Design that aims to expand both the consciousness and competence of leaders so they can meet the VUCA world head-on with the inner resources and outer networks to cope with uncertainty and co-create with complexity to win the future.
Leadership Programs That Win Over Hearts & Minds To Drive Behavior Change
Facilitation by seasoned transformation experts who work hard to make every participant feel welcome, wanted, valued, seen, and truly heard, no matter their leadership style or personality type—and ensure that everyone listens, learns, and collaborates as much as speaks, discusses, and socializes.
Leadership Programs That Build Trust For Business Transformation & Team Effectiveness
Facilitation that rapidly wins hearts & minds to begin the process of group alchemy and quickly builds safety, trust, belonging, and a sense of "in-it-togetherness—which then radically increases the probabilities of extraordinary developmental breakthroughs occurring in individuals and groups.
Leadership Programs That Rewire Mindsets, Restore Emotional Connection & Renew Energy & Commitment
Facilitation that wins hearts and minds, building coherence in how leaders think and sense-make together as a cohort and culture and cultivating resonance in how they feel, connect, and relate to each other, leading to sustained high-performance and increased adaptability long after the program has completed.
Leadership Programs That Invite Leaders To Lean In, Step Up & Break Through To The Next Level
Facilitation that inspires and challenges people to lean in and step up by shifting them from observing and receiving to creating and contributing—while elegantly preventing strong personalities from hijacking the process and/or squandering precious time.
Leadership Programs That Upgrade How Leaders Feel, Think, Act, Interact, Influence, Communicate, Innovate & Collaborate
Facilitation that has mastered how to transform the mindsets, emotional states, moods, and behaviors of individual leaders and leadership teams based on our original theory of human development, Bio-Transformation, which seeks to change leaders as fast as humanly possible.
“Amazing, amazing feedback from our leaders!”
Global HR Director, Intel
Our Game-Changing Leadership
Curriculum, Interventions & Theory
Most leadership programs fail to deliver the results promised—because they are locked in an outdated training model that fails to deliver transformed leaders or concrete business impact.
With our origins in strategy and innovation consulting, training in behavioral and brain science, and years of experience, we have innovated a genuinely pioneering approach to maximize your leadership development investment by changing leaders as fast as humanly possible.
Coherent & 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. Our curriculum enables leaders to master the inner and outer games of leadership.
State-Of-The-Art Transformative Interventions
Alongside the curriculum, we developed a number of innovative interventions for unlocking and sustaining exceptional leadership. These range from peer-to-peer coaching that builds trust and traction to truly transformative experiences that can break persistent habits and unfold rapid change.
A Science-Backed Theory Of Change
Our curriculum and interventions have been built upon our own original theory of human development, Bio-Transformation. We developed this methodology to transform, as quickly as humanly possible, how leaders feel, think, act, interact, relate, innovate, and communicate by working with, not against, human biology and culture.
“The most challenging and valuable leadership program I’ve been on. And I’ve been on a lot in 30 years!”
COO, Syngenta
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