Who am I?
I’m a Senior Innovation Consultant with 10+ years hands-on experience. I originally came from an arts background, trained in the design process through visual communication, graphic design, Web technologies, UI/UX design and development. I gained an MSc in International Business & Management for Design and started my PhD in Innovation & Entrepreneurship; giving me broad skill-sets, tools and methodologies to apply at strategic, tactical and operational levels, coupled with hand-on industry experience new technology R&D.
What do I do?
I work for Board of Innovation, cross-industry and help internal Fortune500 teams to innovate like start-ups, by applying my multi-disciplinary background across design, business and innovation management through hands-on consulting, training and facilitation of tailored innovation programmes. Ranging from bootcamps, corporate accelerator’s programs, long-term cultural change programs using methods like Design Thinking, Design Sprints, Lean Start-up and AGILE methodologies, business model innovation, pitching and commercialisation in both B2B and B2C.
What makes me tick?
I’m naturally inquisitive; passionate about the near-possible; an ENFJ; a critical design, business and innovation thinker who loves to uncover why questions and is keen to learn from everywhere and anyone around me. I love all things digital including hacking technology, reading, writing, art, sliding down mountains, cycling all over, creating things and I have a keen interest in all that flies.
Research interests
I’m particularly interested in how firms can harness and capture value from their extreme users, creative consumers or hackers by proactively-facilitating and overtly-absorbing external generativity as a vital source of innovation and added-value. I have so far written on the topic at PhD level, carried-out research, authored papers and monograph.
Latest Publications, Research & International Speaking
I recently gave an international keynote at POLISHOPA Design Thinking & Service Design Conference in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Here is the keynote on 'Applying Design Thinking in B2C & B2B Fortune…
I have the pleasure of being invited to speak at POLISHOPA Design Thinking & Service Design Conference in Bydgoszcz, Poland, 3rd-6th of June 2019. About POLISHOPA POLISHOPA Design Thinking Conference is…
I'll be speaking at the upcoming Nexxworks Kickstart Innovation Bootcamp Entrepreneur Edition at Spark 9, Antwerp, Belgium on the 16th May 2019. Topics will include: Innovation what it is and what…
I recently gave an interview to EH:21 Magazine (L'Entreprise et l'Homme) on how Board of Innovation helps large corporates to 'innovate like startups'. The publication is in French but feel free…
"How are we doing with our current innovation capabilities?" …We get this question a lot from c-suites and innovation managers around the World. They want to know how their organization…
Last year I participated in a quantitative research study by Dr Jan Schwarz into the role of the customer in the use of Design Thinking and how it is used…
Great to see Valmet's Innovation Pathways B2B Co-creation Accelerator feature in the Annual Report 2018 (https://bit.ly/2H7Lrre). It's been a pleasure designing, building and running the program with such great collaboration…
B2B co-creation is a powerful way to co-create new business value with your most valued customers by closely iterating back and forth throughout the innovation process. Our approach is to…
How to spot an intrapreneur on a corporate safari If you go on a corporate safari, one of the hardest employee animals to find is the intrapreneur. An intrapreneur is…
Innovation Management
Business Model Innovation
Design Thinking
Innovation Research
Lean Startup
Corporate Intrapreneurship
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