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Strategy & Innovation Consulting

InnovationPoint is a boutique consulting firm focused on the practice of Strategic Innovation. We blend non-traditional and conventional consulting methodologies to deliver business breakthroughs that grow the topline – through opportunity identification, new business creation, strategy development and new product, service and category innovation. In our capability-building work we help clients design organizational structures, processes and cultures that tightly align to business strategy and create sustainable innovation.

Disruptive Innovation Keynote Speaker

A number of factors set us apart:

Focus
We focus exclusively on the practice of Strategic Innovation.
Deep experience in innovation consulting
For over twenty years we have been thought leaders and practitioners in innovation consulting, working closely with Fortune 1000 clients.
Visionary yet pragmatic approach
Leveraging our Silicon Valley heritage and mindset, we lead teams from future-oriented exploration through implementation planning.
Proprietary, multidisciplinary methodologies
We combine non-traditional and conventional approaches that integrate foresight, insight and organizational success factors to drive breakthrough results.
Principal-led programs
Our team includes seasoned practitioners with proven backgrounds and experience. Our firm’s principals lead every client engagement.
Accelerated implementation
We help teams accelerate investment decisions and move seamlessly into implementation.
Breakthrough results
We deliver solid results that have lasting impact.
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In the management consulting landscape, InnovationPoint sits at the intersection of a number of disciplines. In working with us you will experience:
  • The non-traditional approaches to innovation found in the business creativity movement.
  • The traditional strategy consulting of large consulting firms.
  • Futures research and scenario development that creates an understanding of emerging trends and potential opportunities.
  • New product development viewpoint of industrial design firms.
  • Qualitative consumer/customer research to ensure that our work is inspired by deep insights.
  • Organizational design and change management perspective that builds a company’s internal capability for sustainable innovation.

Through our diverse and extensive consulting experience we have created a multidisciplinary approach to growth-related challenges founded upon proven innovation principles. By blending proprietary innovation-based tools and techniques with more conventional methods, we inspire and challenge leadership teams to create breakthrough strategies, business models, new ventures, categories, products and services that lead to significant new revenue streams, and institutionalize an organizational capacity for Strategic Innovation.

What Makes Our Consulting Firm Unique

Seasoned Business Leaders

We are a group of seasoned business leaders and consultants who know what it takes to get to the next level. We help innovative leaders disrupt the mindsets of their teams and organizations in order to disrupt their markets with business breakthroughs that positively surprise customers and grow the top line.

Our tools

Our tools and processes are based upon decades of experience. We know that breakthrough innovation and business growth demands a dual-focus – on new strategies, products, services and business models and also on the leadership and strategic business alignment necessary for accelerating disruptive organizational change.

Thought Leadership

We provide thought leadership on what it takes to create new opportunities and business models, with an emphasis on the often overlooked and under-appreciated success factors and capabilities required for leading strategic innovation and change.

InnovationPoint Founder, Soren Kaplan

Soren Kaplan is a bestselling and award winning author, an Affiliate at the Center for Effective Organizations at USC’s Marshall School of Business, a Columnist for Inc. Magazine, a globally recognized keynote speaker, and the Founder of InnovationPoint. Business Insider and the Thinkers50 have named him one of the world’s top management thought leaders and consultants.

Soren has advised and led professional development programs for thousands of executives around the world, including Disney, NBCUniversal, Kimberly-Clark, Colgate-Palmolive, Hershey, Red Bull, Medtronic, Roche, Philips, Cisco, Visa, Ascension Health, Kaiser Permanente, CSAA Insurance Group, American Nurses Association, and many others. He has lectured at the Harvard Business School, Copenhagen Business School, Melbourne Business School, Breda University in the Netherlands, and with other MBA and executive education programs globally. Soren’s debut book, Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs, was named “Best Leadership Book” and The Invisible Advantage: How to Create a Culture of Innovation received the “Best General Business Book” distinction by the International Book Awards. He has been quoted, published, and interviewed by Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Forbes, CNBC, National Public Radio, the American Management Association, USA Today, Strategy & Leadership, and The International Handbook on Innovation, among many others. He holds Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Organizational Psychology and possesses dual US-French citizenship.

What They Say

Mary Beth Robles
Vice President, Innovation Capability & Systems, Colgate-Palmolive

Soren understood our audience and he made the topic of disruptive innovation accessible and inspirational. People are still buzzing about his presentation.

Teppo Paavola
Vice President & Head of Global Business Development, PayPal

Soren’s talk inspired our organization while providing both strategic and practical approaches for driving breakthroughs in the business and for our leadership.

Tatyana Kanzaveli
Organizer, TEDx Bay Area / Silicon Valley

Soren’s new spin on the popular topic of innovation kept the entire audience on the edge of their seats. His talk was amazing.

Eric Silfen, MD
Senior Vice-President and Chief Medical Officer, Philips Healthcare

Soren’s engaging keynote jump started our event and got the entire audience thinking about how we can transform the healthcare landscape. He tailored his message to our company, worked collaboratively, and delivered both strategic insights and practical ideas that we can use moving forward.

John S. Jordan, CAE
Executive Vice President & CEO, Academy of Family Physicians

Working with Dr. Kaplan has taken our thinking on leadership to the next level, leapfrogging from one stimulating thought to the next. Dr. Kaplan offers what every organization needs to take innovation and performance to the next level, especially with the ever changing business environment and challenges we all face every day.

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.

Alexis Edelstein
Trade Marketing Innovation, Red Bull

Soren nails down the often hidden success factors that lead to real, sustainable innovation.

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.

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.

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