I can support your growth to become an effective leader of innovation.
Innovation Coaching
Innovation Coaching for Leaders who want to guide their organisation towards profitable transformation.
A rolling of one to one coaching for senior or aspiring innovation leaders. You have decided to take the step towards innovation excellence but want the reassurance of a guide and coach while tapping into the innovation management methods appropriate to your situation. The result is renewed confidence in being able to lead and guide an organisation towards transformation.
If 80% of CEOs state that innovation is a top 3 priority, why do only a minority take action? In a time of significant economic disruption, a company must be ‘match fit’ to renew itself and to thrive. The same is true of leaders. High Innovation performance comes from the company becoming agile in several areas with personal leadership of innovation at the top of the agenda.
Why do you need this?
You want personal expert-led support as part of a short-term challenge or your longer-term personal development.
Your company is moving towards, or has just undergone, a moment of change and you need to be equipped with the skillset, toolset and mindset to lead it.
How it works:
Understand the reality of your organisation and the key high-performing innovation dimensions within your business context.
Understand your own innovation leadership profile; its strengths and set your personal improvement priorities.
Rob will be a sparring partner for you as you confront and help you overcome your innovation leadership challenges.
“Rob and I worked together on a research project to articulate the roadmaps for the Stations of the Future, on behalf of DfT. Rob was the technical lead in the curation of these roadmaps and in selecting the best innovations for developing outline business cases. Rob was an asset to the team and has since turned into a mentor of mine whose opinions and support I highly value. We continue our professional relationship and seek opportunities for working together. I would always seek Rob’s support in adding professional services around future scenario development opportunities.”
Innovation Manager
“Rob is a great networker, with many contacts throughout the industry. He is an effective communicator and his observations are always constructive and helpful. I particularly value his insight and analysis of business issues in helping make innovation programmes become a reality. I asked Rob to critically review an important strategic project – he was able to quickly translate his own experience to create value and reduce technologic risk.”
Development Director, FTSE100 Manufacturing Company
“Rob produced a Technology Road Map which outlines a critical element of our innovation programme. He conducted the work professionally, sensitively capturing, analysing and articulating inputs from various sources and provided a means of communicating the complex challenges and opportunities to our members.
This proved to be very effective and now forms the basis of our innovation programme in this area. Rob has a clear passion for promoting innovation and we were very pleased with his engagement with our members and with the manner in which he was able to identify and articulate in a generic sense the challenges presented to him by organizations from across the pharmaceutical, fine and specialty chemicals sectors.”
CEO and Innovation Director
“The workshop was well organised, structured and engaged and helped us to understand the process of convergence on key ideas without any compromise to our content!”
Project delivered under my association with IfM Engage.
Strategy Director
“I think you can reasonably claim that £100mpa of new products and services was identified: I consider that to be a good return on investment. And we were also able to develop a rigorous process to develop business cases bound for our new digital innovation centre.”
Project delivered under my association with IfM Engage.
Chief Technology Officer
“Rob worked with the team at John Hogg Technical Solutions, leading a strategy refresh programme in conjunction with the IfM. Rob was an excellent facilitator of the sessions, bringing both his personal experience and the tools of the IfM to the sessions enabling John Hogg to re-build their strategy. The investment in working with Rob gave excellent returns when set against the growth the company has seen since. I look forward to the chance of working with Rob again.
The workshops were a fantastic way to get alignment, understand the value in the business and crystallise our thinking. We were able to link technology and market drivers together to create new product ideas, identify areas for continuous improvement, and ultimately we came away better equipped to make changes in the business going forward.”
Project delivered under association with IfM Engage.
Technical and Commercial Director
Features:
Complete a survey of your personal innovation leadership traits and set a plan for development through real situational improvement.
Receive feedback from being observed in action in the workplace.
Minimum of 3 months commitment with monthly one to one session (2h each) and 30-minute weekly video calls.
Complete a close out or continuation review.
…and a personal improvement process focused on you and your innovation leadership capacity by an industry experienced practitioner.
