Resilient organisations develop the ability to exploit their current position, and explore tomorrow’s potential business models at the same time.

Leveraging 20+ years of strategic advisory, and market leading strategic frameworks (incl. the business model canvas, the portfolio map and disruption risk assessment which I co-designed), I help executive teams crystalise how to best balance exploitation and exploration.

Within a few weeks in a strategy sprint, leaders develop clear strategic guidance for internal and external stakeholders on: 

Where they are today

Current business model(s), environment scan, disruption risk assessment

Where to play tomorrow

Evaluation and prioritisation of opportunity areas

How to win

Balance of new business ideas to explore and improvements in the current business model

More than a one-off exercise, the approach sustainably enriches the traditional strategic cycle with tools, processes and skills to anticipate disruption and seize the opportunities for transformation and growth.

It helps leadership teams summon the courage to tackle the big challenges ahead, in order to build more resilient, responsible organisations.

When it comes to innovation, too many organisations still fall into the trap of looking for the silver bullet, be it a new methodology, an incubator, a quarterly hackathon, etc.

In reality innovation requires strong fundamentals to be built and nurtured before it can deliver tangible growth and transformation outcomes.

With courage and pragmatism, I help leadership teams clarify their innovation’s objectives, honestly assess their organisation’s current capability and design the required interventions to build or improve their innovation ecosystem.

My approach is based on years of hands-on experience in large organisations and leads to concrete improvements of:

Explore portfolio

Adaptation of innovation process and framework to fit strategic objectives. Balancing efficiency, sustaining and transformative innovation

Innovation programs

Assessment of existing innovation programs and recommendations to increase their impact

Exploration culture

Codesign of interventions required on leadership support, organisation design or innovation practice

I aspire to help more and more leadership teams take a long-term view of their responsibility and contribution, invest in corporate innovation ecosystems with the awareness of challenges ahead, and stay on course to create more humane, and resilient organisations.

For bold change agents, it can be lonely at the top. It doesn’t have to be.

I work with courageous and authentic leaders willing to challenge the status quo, and own their full, unique potential.

My contributions include acting as their:

Innovation Go-To Person

Curating relevant strategic tools, frameworks, ideas, and case studies. Plugging you to the relevant experts and support networks

Strategy Alter Ego

Plugging together at the list of strategic challenges to be overcome and working through them to resolution

Wandering partner

Helping you disconnect and reconnect to what’s more important. Walking together to shake off old ideas, and let new ones emerge with great clarity

“I figured I couldn’t be fired on my first day.”

– Paul Polman (after he scrapped the FTSE 100 company’s quarterly earnings reports on his first day as Unilever CEO in 2009)

If, like Paul Polman and many others, you’re ready to lead in complete alignment with your values and are looking for a partner in crime, let’s talk.