Contributors

Aaron is an innovation expert with seventeen years of experience innovating in complex organisations.

Adi is an experienced innovation writer and consultant who has worked with organisations such as Deloitte, GSK, Salesforce, the NHS and BIS.

Adi is an entrepreneur and investor working as Head of Product Innovation with over 13 years of experience across Fashion, E-commerce and Technology Industries.

Adrian is a customer experience consultant and advisor, and has been growing and helping develop customer-focused large and small businesses for 20 years.  

Alice de Casanove is leading culture transformation at Airbus North America.

Andreas represents Switzerland’s largest mobility player SBB CFF FFS in Silicon Valley. His mission is to find and connect the best startups with the railway business and open new business opportunities.

Andreas believes that collaboration and teamwork are at the centre of successful digital transformation.

Consulting Director @ Clustre – The Innovation Brokers

Executive coach and strategic advisor with thirty years’ experience, a proven track record and a desire to make a difference.

Andy is the founder of the innovation strategy firm Lean Ventures and a serial entrepreneur turned advisor.

Anne-Laure likes to deconstruct misconceptions, received ideas and habits founded on imagined or irrational justifications, to ensure that excellence prevails. She is convinced that innovation has to be driven by a vision of the common good for the people and for the planet. This is what ethics is about.

Aymar has worked for several innovative organisations with a focus on  behavioural sociology as well as new technologies. His scenario-based foresight approach is dedicated to highlight how to evolve and adapt, as opposed to focus on what to do next. 

Baruch helps global clients develop new ways of streamlining their operations and improving their customer experience.

Customer Success Manager
Bea is an innovation enthusiast working in the Customer Success Team at Wazoku.

Using brand and customer insights to inform digital experiences that people remember.

Ben has a passion for making work more exciting, more inclusive and more democratic for everyone.

Executive coach, author, speaker, and thought leader on organisational change and employee engagement.

Brett is a Founding Partner of pluralthinking, an insight, brand thinking and cultural intelligence agency based in the UK.

Bruno Pešec helps business leaders innovate profitably.

Carolina is the founder of Design Thinking Institute & Creative Thinker Global Group.

Catherine is a design, research, product, technology and work systems advisor and coach with almost two decades’ experience in technology, working in innovation, strategy and delivery. Her passions include knowledge, learning, data, vision, change, organisation & system innovation.

Cecilia is a strategic communications consultant with over 20 years’ experience.

Chris helps organizations apply the principles of positive psychology for increased performance and engagement.

Dan is co-founder and creative director of Scriberia, where clients are empowered to think, work and communicate visually, through a range of innovative services.

Dan is the founder & CEO of Deliberate Innovation, he is also a keynote speaker and former head of World Wide Innovation at Pfizer.

Dan is a lean innovation practitioner, keynote speaker and co-author of the book ‘The Corporate Startup’

Daniel is leading the Innovation Circle at Fidelity International, a group responsible for facilitating everyday innovation with employees, as well as creating and curating the professional track to accelerate disruption.

Danny is an experienced leader, with a varied career focused on delivering value through transformation and innovation

Head of Business Consultancy at Eliga and RegTech industry specialist

David orchestrates innovation efforts in a way that enables gradual, yet quick enough culture change.

Co-founder of Culture Consultancy Expert at designing and embedding organisational cultures; shaping and executing plans for transformational change.

Dick supports in creating and shaping the future. The background of an engineer, trained as CEO and strong in imagination.

Doug is an innovative and adaptable experience design leader and coach.

Douglas is an entrepreneur and human-centered technologist with over 20 years of experience.

Transforming opportunities into sustainable value & cash by creating and validating new business models and business ideas.

Fran is the founder of DicereGlobal and together with his friend and colleague, Professor Jay Rao, he co-founded InnoQuotient.

Bringing digital transformation to life by accelerating adoption and building proficiency at scale.

Gabrielle brings a unique blend of experience in communications and business in her work as Events and Marketing Executive for Qandor.

Gaja is a workspace design manager, advisor on innovation and co-author of the book “New Workspace Playbook”.

Gareth is viewed as a thought leader in the area of the intrapreneurial leader mind-set and now works globally with organisations regularly giving key note speeches on how businesses can become more intrapreneurial.

Gareth is a veteran of change delivery for business and technology, with 19 years’ experience in Financial Services.

George Krasadakis is an Innovation and Technology Director with two decades of experience in both startups and big tech/consulting companies and is the author of ‘The Innovation Mode’ (Springer, 2020).

Change companion, transforming business by aligning strategy, culture and brand.

Gordon is an Inc Magazine Top 100 Leadership Expert and Speaker, and Author of FAST 4 Principles Every Business Needs To Achieve Success and Drive Results.

Group Director, Digital Marketing and Digital Transformation at Thales.

Hannah ensures investment in innovation has the greatest impact.

Hans is an experienced Digital Expert in the ICT/Digital industry.

Enabling you to transform your world.

Henra is the CEO of Innocentrix (Pty) Ltd, an innovation and ideas company that helps their clients to create, engage, and deliver the future.

Putting a human face on leadership!

Co-Marketing Director @ Clustre – The Innovation Brokers

A senior and highly digitally literate CMO and storyteller, with over 25 years experience in brand strategy and development.

Marketing Director @ Clustre

Ian Spencer is a marketing professional with extensive experience in advertising.

Ian is a Senior Strategic Change & Innovation Advisor focused on translating strategy into meaningful execution.

Jack is an inspiring leader who is determined to help organisations realise their innovation potential by providing them with the right tools whilst changing their mindsets and challenging their established beliefs.

Jeffrey is an expert at the front end of innovation, having lead trend spotting and scenario planning activities, customer insight research, idea generation, open innovation and rapid prototyping.

Director Consulting Services at CGI

Jelena is a changemaker. She makes change happen.

Co-founder and Chairman at Viima Jesse is an entrepreneur with a passion for building and growing businesses and organizations to scale in the digital age.

Jim Conaway, founder and President of Compendium Analytics, Inc., has over 20 years’ experience in the analytics space. 

Co-founder of Culture Consultancy Entrepreneur, culture expert, author, speaker and guest lecturer, champion of women in business, women in tech and flexible working.

Jon is the Co-founder of Generous Mind, a think tank dedicated to helping people release ideas into the world, and a nonprofit executive.

Jonathan is the managing director of Blue Globe Innovation, a global boutique innovation consultancy specialising in running both small and large scale crowdsourced innovation challenges/prizes/processes.

Jorge is co-founding partner of Innoway. Before that he spent more than seven years in Palladium, a boutique consulting firm specialized in Strategy Execution.

Marketing at Viima Julia has a passion for helping companies uncover their innovative potential.

Product enthusiast looking for new challenges in the Amsterdam region.

Kate is a semiotician, corporate innovation catalyst and ICF-accredited coach with an international track record helping complex organisations and start-ups understand trends and develop the front-end-of-innovation process and creative climate.

Kursty is an award-winning designer, innovation consultant, TV presenter, professor and workplace strategy advisor.

Laszlo is Project Lead of SME Digital Transformation Program at Budapest Institute of Banking and a Partner at Future-Now. Laszlo has 15 years experience in innovation consulting and services the financial industry. He has a MSc degree in Sociology.

VP, Intrapreneurship Airbus and People/Culture Acubed, Louise is a highly regarded thought leader, an instigator of change and innovation always with the focus on people. She has 20 years of management experience within world leading multinational organisations.

Luciana is the founder and leader of The Human Behaviour People, a consulting firm focused on human behaviour research and advisory for business success and sustainability. Luciana has many years of proven consulting, business & cultural innovation experience as both a start-up founder and corporate executive.

Marc is a Professor of Management & Innovation  and works with global leadership teams on how to grow, renew, transform and evolve their organisations — in fresh ways.

Vice President at CGI

Leading the HR Solutions business focusing on Payroll, HR automation and Cloud HR solutions.

Martin is covering all aspects of innovative Data Management, as a Consultant, Speaker and Author.

Matteo is a tech enthusiast who has travelled across the globe to help companies of all sizes work on innovative and disruptive technologies.

Author, speaker, ReOrganizer.

Michael is an innovation futurist who helps organizations see what’s coming over the horizon, 3-10 years forward.

Natalie is the Author of – Yes, You Can Innovate, Keynote Speaker, Inventor of 6 ‘I’s® of Innovation & Founder of Women who Lead.

Nate connects startups to corporates who need to grow and innovate.

Neil is a workplace and change professional with 30 years international multi-sector experience, a prolific blogger and twice-published author.   

Nick is a Data Evangelist and part of the Technology and Innovation Division at NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration).

Nic is an adaptability coach. As an innovator and human potential consultant Nic keeps all things human at the centre of focus for organisations to transform, have purpose and enable epic people, products and performance.

Nikolay is an experienced technology innovation leader, having around 15 years of experience in technology space consulting global companies, including some of the FTSE 100.

Paul is a frequent writer, striving to be informative, creative and knowledgeable in piecing together the broader understanding of innovation.

Perry is the founder & Director of PTHR (People & Transformational HR Ltd).

CEO of Intergence Providing clarity into the new digital world of cloud and applications.

Partner at Luman Philip Horvath is an expert on mindset, leadership and culture and supporting corporate innovators in making the future real.

Pierre is the Innovation Director for a fast growing IT SME and also acts as a consultant and mentor. Pierre shapes innovation cultures to offer new value to teams and clients alike.

Pietro leads the innovation department at Deltatre, he is responsible for the coordination of innovation efforts across divisions, and ensures that robust processes are in place for innovation to thrive. 

Rachel is head of content at Scriberia, where clients are empowered to think, work and communicate visually through an innovative range of services.

A business leader with diverse industry experience in Power Generation, Oil & Gas, Environmental portfolios and Aviation sector.

Raymond is a management designer, advisor, educator and speaker.

Richard is an entrepreneur, Investor, Strategist, Thinker, Writer and Commentator.

A compelling speaker and the author of seven books, Richard is currently Executive Director of Centre for the Future – a unique international enterprise whose mission is to make the world work for everyone by reinventing systems that are failing the human family. 

Rita is an international speaker on the subjects of business and HR transformation and ranked among the Top 100 Human Resources Officers by ExecRank in 2012.

MD at Clustre – The Innovation Brokers

Robert has 40 years’ experience of conceiving, selling and delivering multi-million pound solutions to major institutions.

People management, personal development, leadership, and team dynamics specialist.

Roberto is an economist with a strong interest in sales, leadership, entrepreneurship and innovation.

Rodolphe is an idea stimulator who creates alternative and sustainable harmonies for people.

Speaker, futurist, ecopreneur, author, storyteller.

Chief Strategy & Product Officer
Rosemarie leads strategy & product for the award winning innovation management software company, Wazoku.

Sabine is the host of Women In Leadership Summit. Founder of The Empowerment Portal, bestselling author and speaker.

Sabine Simon | Coaching, Supervision, Organisationsberatung (sabine-simon.de)

Specialist in customer relations and experience and growing her company on a culture and transformation journey close to that of startups.

Director of sales development & operations
Sarah is an innovation and technology enthusiast who hails from sunny California and leads the Inside Sales function at Wazoku.

Founder and CEO
Leading Edge Only is the world’s largest Innovation Marketplace helping major corporations find new relevant innovations – quickly and cost effectively.

Siddharth is a corporate strategy & innovations professional.

CEO of Wazoku
Simon is the founder of the award winning innovation management software company, Wazoku.

Thomas Franklin is a senior partner at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton and founder of Triangle IP.

Corporate innovation leader with broad industry experience.

Tim is passionate about helping established companies develop and nurture ‘in-house’ entrepreneurs so that they can innovate more like a start-up and respond to disruption more effectively.

Tim Westall is a Managing Partner of April Strategy LLP.

CEO of LUMAN
Tirza Hollenhorst helps transform companies by developing intrapreneurial leadership capacity while getting work done.

Tom is an executive manager experienced in executing business and procurement strategy.

Tomislav is an innovation practitioner in IT industry. He is also a writer and lecturer.

A fine artist in a quest to achieve through patience, passion and perseverance.

Transforming the way large organisations innovate.

Ulf Löwenhav is a managing partner of Aalto Capital Group and an investment banking and strategy advisor.

Zena is the operations Director for ideasUK.