driving INNOVATION
In competitive and disruptive markets, innovation cannot depend on isolated ideas or a few enthusiastic individuals. It requires the right leadership, strategic clarity, management disciplines and working environment to turn opportunity into action. We help organisations strengthen innovation capability, remove barriers that slow progress, and build conditions for consistent commercial impact.
THE PROBLEM
Most innovation activity does not deliver meaningful growth
Innovation is a top strategic priority for many leadership teams, but very few organisations have the capability and conditions needed to deliver it consistently. Too often, innovation effort gets trapped in safe, incremental activity with limited commercial return, rather than being channelled into more meaningful growth and differentiation.
Without a clearer system for how innovation is defined, supported and scaled, organisations end up with scattered initiatives, slow decision-making and unrealised potential.
the solution
Our approach combines strategy and leadership expertise with behavioural change, shifting innovation from sporadic projects to a repeatable engine embedded in how your organisation works.
We assess where your organisation is today, surfacing the practical barriers that may be holding innovation back. That can include gaps in leadership sponsorship, management capability, strategic clarity, collaboration, decision-making, risk appetite, processes or everyday behaviours.
We help translate ambition into something clearer and more actionable, aligning innovation with your corporate goals, commercial priorities and operating reality. This includes creating a shared definition of innovation, clarifying leadership expectations and identifying where innovation capability needs to be strengthened across the organisation.
We support you to embed stronger innovation practices through leadership, management, ways of working and measurement, so innovation becomes a more repeatable capability. That helps your organisation move faster on opportunities, respond to disruption with greater agility and solve higher value problems that create competitive advantage.
Whether you need to understand what is blocking innovation, align leaders around a clearer innovation agenda or strengthen the conditions for ideas to translate into commercial value, we tailor our support to build innovation capability where it matters most.
A focused workshop to help you get clear on the challenge, uncover what is getting in the way of performance, and decide where to act first.
Our online tool uses a five-stage innovation framework to assess what is enabling or limiting innovation across leadership, team, culture, process and strategy.
Build the leadership conditions, mindset and behaviours that make innovation repeatable and practical.
Create the operating conditions and process flow innovation needs to work in practice.
Manage and track innovation as a system with clearer visibility of what drives performance.
A structured programme that helps organisations turn priorities, principles and desired behaviours into everyday ways of working.
Rapidly shift the behaviours that are slowing experimentation, collaboration or follow-through.
Build shared understanding and momentum for innovation, focusing on practical and immersive application.
RESULTS
We’ve helped organisations turn innovation from sporadic activity into a more repeatable capability that drives growth, agility and competitive advantage.
A European Insurtech which had once led its market was struggling to launch new products. We helped them regain the ability to innovate and reclaim their trailblazing position.
A major defence partnership needed to shift to innovation-led collaboration. We built shared language, behaviours and tools to enable teams to innovate together.
Facing rising competition, the bank needed innovation-ready leadership. We helped diagnose cultural blockers and upskill leaders to drive a more agile, innovative organisation.
Our Team
Meet our team of Innovation specialists
DIRECTOR
Jo
Ex-head of HR for Goldman Sachs, speaker, and author on the topics of high-performance leadership, culture and employee experience.
consultant
Cris
A world renowned thought leader on innovation and how to align strategy, leadership, and culture to drive sustainable growth.
DIRECTOR
Derek
Former AXA Head of Customer Service, thought leader, and author with over 20 years experience leading teams and delivering results.
consultant
Drew
A PhD Anthropologist, Former Business School Professor, Author and longtime Culture and Workplace Consultant. Based in the US.
consultant
Ed
An organisational psychologist with more than 15 years experience working with clients like the BBC, HSBC, and Expedia.
consultant
Paul
With two decades’ experience and a background in BP’s global social investment, Paul helps organisations unlock performance through people.
consultant
Quentin
Quentin helps clients overcome hidden barriers to change, drawing on his senior experience at tier-one banks
Ready to build a system of innovation?
You’ll be speaking with Jo Geraghty, our founder and culture expert, and Cris Beswick, our Head of Innovation. They’ll personally guide you through your next steps.
Frequently asked questions
An Innovation Maturity Assessment provides a structured, evidence-based views of your organisation’s current capacity to innovate. It benchmarks your current innovation capabilities across cultural alignment, team dynamics, processes and leadership. Businesses use it to identify gaps, build a roadmap for innovation and drive growth. In an era where innovation is a strategic necessity, this tool helps leaders make informed, focused investments that accelerate business growth.
You can measure innovation culture by assessing leadership behaviours, collaboration levels, psychological safety, risk-taking attitudes and how ideas are implemented. Our award-winning framework provides a practical and evidence-based way to capture this across your teams – it provides a clear map of where you’re excelling and where targeted improvements are needed to unlock value.
Knowing your innovation maturity enables smarter investment decisions, faster team alignment, stronger leadership buy-in and more targeted innovation initiatives. Innovation assessments foster honest conversations, build shared language, and reduce resistance to change. They help organisations move towards a culture of continuous creativity, and empower teams to take ownership of innovation goals. Research shows organisations that assess maturity are 3x more likely to succeed at embedding innovation.
Organisations that use our framework report higher innovation success rates, increased market responsiveness, reduced waste in innovation investments, and stronger leadership engagement. These outcomes are tracked through clear KPIs, enabling you to demonstrate true return on innovation.
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