Over the past decade as Managing Director and Futures Practice Lead for ?What If! Innovation (part of Accenture), I built and led a $30M innovation practice, guided 80+ professionals through a successful acquisition, and delivered transformational strategies for Fortune 500 clients across consumer goods, logistics, aviation, media, technology, fashion and more.
I'm energized by challenging established orthodoxies to create future strategies, products and services, and developing productively impatient talent to do the same.
Today, I leverage my experience, as well as my engineering foundation and entrepreneurial background, to directly help organizations adapt their strategies, products, and people to future change.
Organizations are built to deliver the core business, not adapt for the future. I help by providing what they're challenged to have internally — a deeper understanding of the world outside their business, freedom from their institutional assumptions and organizational silos, and license to experiment with new directions.
I work to develop new strategic directions by understanding how the world is changing and collaborating on what that means for a client's organization. I also work to equip teams — using the time developing strategy together to prepare the team to execute going forward. This dual mandate yields the most impact, as the only way to truly help organizations become more resilient is through their people.
In short, I help organizations adapt to change.
New strategic directions.
A future-ready team.
I have worked with clients across nearly every industry, including CPG (PepsiCo), Financial Services (Vanguard), Technology (Google), Media & Entertainment (Disney), Retail (CHANEL), Pharmaceuticals (AbbVie), Logistics (FedEx), Airlines (JetBlue), and NGOs (The Rockefeller Foundation) — to name a few.
To get a feel for the type of work I do, here are a few select examples:
A global logistics company needed to evolve the value they offer customers in the changing digital commerce landscape. We defined new value to prevent future commoditization, designed and launched new data-led products, and scaled their transformation enterprise-wide.
A global media conglomerate needed to rethink their entertainment-experiences flywheel for a generation less engaged by traditional media. We redefined their business in the context of consumer value, launched products that ignored old silos, and shifted leadership thinking on growth.
A premier technology company needed their executives ready to lead the AI future. We designed and ran an executive program that prepared 60+ leaders to spot paradigm shifts and meet them with a "healthy disregard for the impossible."
A global beverage company needed to figure out what a brewery should offer a future consumer who no longer drinks alcohol. We defined future needs, launched products beyond alcohol, and built their corporate venturing function to scale into new categories.
Additional details and cases can be provided upon request.
Interested in working together? Partnering? Just catching up? Please reach out — always happy to chat.