As my innovation tribe was set to visit Australia for a solid two weeks in March 2023, an idea took root in my mind: what if we organized an event during their stay?

And that’s how the Corporate Innovation in Action conference was conceived…

Eight years after discovering the Business Model Canvas at Agile Australia in 2014, an event that shifted my whole career towards strategy & innovation consulting, I was asked to be a keynote speaker on the main stage of the AgileAustralia conference in 2022 and share my key learnings on what unlocks innovation in large organisations.

Justice may be blind but the legal industry shouldn’t be deaf. If you heard the weak signals of disruption in the legal industry, what would you do if you were leading one of the key players of that industry?

In 2021 we helped a legal firm answer that question and develop their breakthrough innovation capability.

After the publication of the Invincible Company in April 2020, I shifted my focus back to advisory work and helping leaders take a wider, more systemic approach to developing an innovation capability within their company. Building on the Innovation Ecosystem framework and my 20+ year experience, I help leadership teams to clarify their innovation strategy, to honestly assess their organisation’s current capability and to design the required interventions to improve their innovation ecosystem over time.

In 2020 I synthesised the key learnings from The Invincible Company and from collaborations with innovation thought leaders such as Greg Bernarda, Tendayi Vicki and Alex Osterwalder into a program specifically designed to help senior leaders in large organisations adjust their leadership to drive better outcomes with corporate innovation.

My favourite pictures from the value proposition and business model design masterclass that I co-facilitated with Greg Bernarda and Nick Rakis in Melbourne in October 2017. First time this groundbreaking innovation training was offered in Australia.

My favourite pictures from the 1.5 day workshop on how to create an inclusive future that I co-designed and co-facilitated in October 2017. An exploration with the Catalyst Network of Universal Basic Income, the future of work and the kind of society we want to create.

In 2017 I project managed the writing of a book, the first book by my friends, and former colleagues at wheretofromhere?, Philippe Coullomb and Charles Collingwood-Boots. I knew Philippe and Charles were master of their craft, the design and facilitation of large complex workshops, and I was convinced that they had a great book in them to share with the growing community of workshop designers and facilitators in the world.

Between September 2017 and March 2018, I led the co-creation of Strategyzer innovation metrics with Alex Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, and a consortium of three multinational companies and a SME with an ambitious innovation agenda.

Greg Bernarda and I led several innovation sprints within a leading pharmaceutical company in 2018.

The overall innovation program was designed by Strategyzer with the objective to help the company develop and manage its innovation portfolio. A series of innovation sprints were run in parallel to take cohorts of “intrapreneurs” from a new business idea to a tested business model in 10 weeks.

Greg Bernarda and I were assigned 5 teams in Asia Pacific.

The two-day masterclass by Strategyzer is such a fantastic training on the new language, methods and tools required for Strategy & Innovation today. It is a great fit with my personal mission to inspire people to innovate, and contribute to building the ambidextrous organisations our business world needs.

I facilitate regular masterclasses in Europe, the US and Asia.

In 2019 I co-created with Alex Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur a tool to help leaders assess the risk of disruption of their business(es). This is a key element of the new toolkit we introduce in The Invincible Company.

Assessing the risk of disruption of a business model is critically important because it enables you to take the required actions and avoid future crises. And when crises cannot be avoided, like today’s Covid-19 crisis, at least you can enter them better prepared.

In Q3 2016, Gy Wallace and I started to work together on the strategy for the In-Home Care business at IRT. Gy had just been appointed CEO of IRT’s In-Home Care business and felt the business was missing the required clarity, sense of purpose and focus that a strategy could bring. In some ways, his business was keeping its head in the sand, not ready for the next curve balls thrown out by our VUCA world. Gy was ready to try something new. Together we designed a 9-week Strategy Sprint to address challenges of the future, and be prescriptive on immediate actions.

In Australia, the Aged Care sector is ongoing massive change triggered by legislative and regulatory changes, by a shift in customer behaviours and, like so many other sectors, by technology (robotics, wearables, etc.)

At the end of 2014 I took a client engagement to design and lead the In-Home Care (IHC) business transformation of IRT, an Aged Care provider in Australia.

In June 2018 I joined forces with Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur and Alan Smith to work on the fourth book in the Strategyzer series, The Invincible Company.

The book was launched in April 2020. Here are my highlights and favourite pictures from the sometimes rocky but incredible human and creative adventure to produce this book.