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Leadership Development for Strategic Thinking & Innovation

Do you want to build strategic thinking, innovation, and growth strategy capabilities into your high-potential managers and executive leadership?

Most leaders want business breakthroughs, but many struggle with the elusive and “messy” process required for creating them. Why? Because strategy and innovation in today’s world isn’t formulaic. It requires an agile mindset coupled with rapid learning and iteration. It mandates leaders create a “culture of innovation” that fosters risk-taking and experimentation. That’s how you get breakthrough new strategies, products, services, processes, and business models. And often some of the most important leadership success factors involve how we approach uncertainty, manage ambiguity, and respond to the inevitable positive and negative surprises we experience during the process.

Soren Kaplan founded one of the first strategic innovation consulting firms in the early 2000s. For 20+ years, he has delivered strategic growth, leadership development, and innovation culture change initiatives to some of the world’s most innovative organizations – including Disney, NBCUniversal, Cisco, Colgate-Palmolive, Red Bull, PepsiCo, Hershey’s, AAA Insurance Group, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Visa, Kaiser Permanente, Ascension Health, Medtronic, Philips, American Nurses Association, AARP, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and dozens of others.

Through extensive research and practical application, Soren guides leaders through the steps to go through when leapfrogging to the next big thing. Whether going after new markets or transforming existing ones, Soren delivers the path to effectively leading disruptive innovation and change.

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Instill best practices for innovation and business growth in your leaders.

Our Innovation Academy integrates leadership development and new business creation to build leaders’ innovation competencies while uncovering untapped sources of business growth. The Innovation Academy is a comprehensive leadership experience conducted over 9-12 months that will transform your leaders and culture while driving real innovation.
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Our Leadership Development Programs deliver customized, highly experiential and collaborative 1-2 day programs for high-potential leaders and executives that combine breakthrough innovation and change strategies with practical tools for making them real. Most programs focus on current business challenges, giving participants the potential to apply knowledge in real-time to create real business impact while gaining instant feedback that helps embed new-found new skills and competencies.
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Our Silicon Valley Innovation Immersions are 1-2 day highly experiential, customized programs that expose a leadership team to a hand-picked cadre of innovation pioneers and leaders, to hear their stories and learn about their approaches and practices. The visits include tours, presentations and highly interactive discussions with top Silicon Valley innovators and thought leaders. Following these visits, debrief sessions catalyze insights, reveal implications and prioritize key actions for advancing innovation and driving growth within your organization.
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Our Innovation Advisors Coaching gives managers and leaders a dedicated “innovation coach” to help uncover new opportunities, define specific strategies for pursuing them, tap into personal potential, help foster a culture of innovation, and hone the most critical leadership behaviors for guiding their teams and organizations into the future.
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