Innovation Culture Assessments, Strategy & Consulting

Create a culture of innovation

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Assessments and Consulting to Create a Culture of Innovation

Create a culture of innovation for your organization through proven assessments and culture change strategies.

Do you want a culture of innovation? Do you need to bust silos, foster collaboration, and drive value creation across the organization?

Just about everyone wants to be more innovative. But organizations define “innovation” differently. Some see it as introducing new products, while others measure innovation success in terms of new services, customer experiences, business models or internal practices. And while some organizations are widely revered as “innovative” (everybody wants to know the secrets of Apple, Google and other high fliers), many continually struggle to find their stride.

All companies, whether they are successful with innovation or not, have one thing in common: they have their own “personalities”, their own particular organizational culture – the shared experiences, values, norms, assumptions and beliefs that shape individual and group behavior, and that (for better or for worse) impact their success with innovation.

We wrote the book on innovation culture – literally. The Invisible Advantage has been profiled by Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, USA Today, and in other media.

We help our clients build innovation cultures through assessments, consulting engagements, leadership development programs, and by building broad-based employee training programs.

Our Innovation Culture Assessments uncover the deeper barriers and untapped opportunities for driving greater innovation and business growth.

Through customized surveys and in-depth interviews, we create a map of your organization’s culture that creates the basis for action-oriented programs designed to pull the various strategic and tactical levers necessary for shifting culture. These levers include:

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Strategy and Business Model

The organization’s explicit (or implicit) functional design, and strategies for competing and growing given the external environment.
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Leadership

How the organization’s leaders influence strategic direction and day-to-day operations, both through explicit communications and their more subtle behaviors.
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Processes

How strategies are executed and how work is accomplished through day-to-day practices and interactions, both internally – and externally-focused. This can be very broad, and includes: the ways the company interacts with its customers/ consumers; the ways various internal functions/departments interact relative to innovation; the ways information is shared; the ways employees contribute new ideas; the ways ideas are prioritized, tested, developed, killed off, and implemented.
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Structures

The formal/informal organizing principles and functional designs (both internal and external) that enable (or inhibit) collaboration and guide employee behavior.
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People

The skillsets and mindsets of individuals who work together, including employees, external partners and suppliers, etc. This has implications for hiring and training.
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Metrics, Incentives, Recognition & Rewards

The formal and informal measures that drive the kinds of innovation-related behaviors an organization wants to see from individuals, teams and departments. An unhealthy tension often exists between longer-term corporate aspirations and short-term metrics.
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Enabling Technology

Capabilities and tools (e.g., internet-based collaboration/ communications tools, idea management or idea competition applications, etc.), that allow employees (and external partners and customers) to connect, share knowledge, and innovate.
To foster sustainable business growth, today’s leaders must take a proactive role in fostering an organizational culture by pulling the levers that drive strategic innovation.

Our Customers Achieve Great Results

Chief Learning Officer, ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership
Anne Blouin, CAE

Soren reveals strategies for engaging people in the type of experiential learning that challenges assumptions and leads to breakthroughs.

Director, Global Innovation Center of Excellence, Hershey’s
Deborah Arcoleo

Soren outlines exactly the right principles for creating an organizational mindset that challenges orthodoxies, and seeks out and learns from surprises.

Co-Founder of OpenTable
Glenn Allen

Soren delivers new principles and tools that anyone can apply to their business. He provides the new guide for entrepreneurs and leaders in today’s environment.

President of Gatorade
Sarah Robb O’Hagan

Soren shows that leaders who look inward to challenge the status quo will be on track to truly change the game.

Kevin Martin
Chief Operating Officer, KQED Public Television & Radio, San Francisco

Soren helped our leadership team assess, design, and build an action plan for further embedding innovation into our culture.

Senior Vice President & Head of Global Talent Development, NBCUniversal
Rebecca Romano

Culture is the key to innovation, and Soren helps leaders assess, frame, and create a sustainable environment for both innovation and growth.

CEO, Best Practices Institute
Louis Carter

Soren’s book, Experiential Intelligence, is a major game-changer for the field of transforming organizations.

Head of Change and Transformation, Cigna
Rachael Orleans

Soren reveals how to create a culture of empowerment and innovation that enables true sustainable growth and engagement.

Group Vice President, HCA Healthcare
Juan Sanchez

Soren artfully blends concrete research with compelling storytelling to clearly show what leads to higher performance as a leader and for your organization.

Vice President of Philanthropy, United Nations Foundation
Valencia Bembry

Soren helps leaders unlock their hidden strengths and those of their teams to drive transformative outcomes.

President & CEO, Ascension Regional Health System
Dr. Stephanie Duggan

Soren knows what it takes to be successful in our rapid paced and constantly changing environment and redefines what all leaders and organizations need to build as competencies for the future.

Chief Technology Officer, Colgate-Palmolive
Pat Verduin, Ph.D.

Soren uses powerful storytelling to take us on a journey to deeply understand our experiences and teach us how to maximize the impact they have on our leadership and business success.

Vice President, Talent & Development, Amazon Web Services
Michael J. Arena

Soren provides a long overdue blueprint to more intentionally access the mindsets, abilities, and know-how gained from your unique life experience.

Chief Marketing Officer of Australia & New Zealand, Accenture
Carrie Smith

Soren’s concept of Experiential Intelligence is the new imperative for unlocking the peak potential of individuals, teams, and organizations.

Senior Vice President, Talent Leaning and Insights, 3M
Kathryn J. Coleman, Ph.D

Dr. Kaplan provides keen insights into how the experiences we have form our current mindsets and an approach for how to gain self-awareness into your unique assets to foster both personal and professional growth.

CEO, American Nurses Association
Dr. Loressa Cole

Soren delivers deep insight into how we show up and perform at work, in our relationships, and life itself.

Create a Culture of Innovation

Based on our award-winning book, The Invisible Advantage

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