Work With the OrgChanger

For 25 years, I built innovation inside one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies — not as a theorist, but as the person doing it. The work returned more than 10x its investment, became an Ivey Business School case study taught at 40+ schools worldwide, and is the subject of my book, The OrgChanger.

Now I help other organizations do the same: build innovation that lasts, turn stalled programs around, and equip the people trying to change their companies from the inside.

Most innovation efforts don’t fail for lack of ideas or talent. They fail for lack of pathways — the sponsors, structures, and conditions that let a good idea travel from where it starts to where it gets funded and built. That’s the work. – Here is how I can help you with it:

Advisory — For Leaders & Organizations

Hands-on engagements for executives and innovation leaders who need results, not a framework.

Innovation Program Rescue & Diagnostic

Your innovation initiative launched with energy and went quiet. Before you fund another program, find out why the last one stalled. In a focused diagnostic, I pinpoint which of the three structural barriers is killing it — ideas that can’t travel up, can’t travel across, or die in the gap between talk and action — and map the pathways that get work moving again. It’s the fastest way to work together, and often the first step toward everything below. Grounded in the same approach that drove a 360% revenue turnaround as interim CEO of a stalled company.

Innovation Ecosystem & Intrapreneurship Design

You have ideas and talent, but nothing reliably turns them into results — and your best builders stay hidden in the org chart. I help you build the system that fixes both: sponsor structures and seed-funding mechanisms that let early-stage ideas travel, plus a merit-based intrapreneurship pipeline — a “School for Intrapreneurs” — that surfaces inventive people and develops leaders through real work, not training modules. This is the system behind a 75+ project portfolio that returned over 10x, refined with Gifford Pinchot III, who coined the term “intrapreneur.” The same pathway-building applies when the goal is to turn employee and business resource groups into business-critical contributors.

Fractional & Interim Innovation Leadership

You need senior innovation leadership now, not a year-long search. I step in — as I did as an interim CEO — to stabilize, focus, and build: cutting the priority list down to what matters, standing up the structures, and preparing the organization for what’s next. For companies in transition, turnaround, or a critical build phase.

Facilitated Workshops

High-energy, hands-on sessions that move a team from talk to a concrete next move — in a half-day, a full day, or a multi-session program.

Innovation & Intrapreneurship Workshops

Your team is ready to work on the real problem, not sit through another presentation. I design and facilitate working sessions where your people diagnose their own barriers, pressure-test a live initiative, and leave with a completed diagnostic and a decision — not a deck. Formats range from a single keynote-plus-workshop day to a structured program. I’ve run these for corporate teams internationally, from an “Intrapreneurial Spirit” workshop for a global pharmaceutical group in Paris to innovation and digital-transformation sessions across Europe. Ideal as a leadership offsite, an innovation-program kickoff, or the practical follow-on to a keynote.

Speaking — For Events & Conferences

Keynotes and sessions for leadership offsites, innovation summits, industry conferences, and executive education.

Keynote — “Why Organizations Reject the Change They Ask For”

Every company says it wants innovation, launches a program, and watches it quietly die. This talk reveals why — the organizational immune system that rejects even the change an organization needs — and the counterintuitive way insiders get past it. Practical, story-driven, and grounded in a decade of doing the work. For a broad leadership audience.

Keynote — “Your Organization Doesn’t Lack Ideas. It Lacks Pathways.”

The idea at the center of my work: the bottleneck to innovation is never a shortage of ideas or talent, but the missing routes that let them travel. Audiences leave able to spot the missing pathways in their own organization — and with the confidence that anyone, at any level, can start building them.

The Ivey Case, Live

A session almost no one else can offer: I teach the Ivey Business School case study written about my own work — “Boehringer Ingelheim: Leading Innovation” — then reveal what the case leaves out: what actually happened next, what worked, and what it cost. For corporate leadership teams, executive-education programs, and business schools.

Every speaking engagement can be paired with copies of The OrgChanger book for your attendees. Ask about bulk and workshop packages.

Coaching — For Intrapreneurs & Change-Makers

For the people driving change from inside — with or without the authority to do it.

You have a good idea and no mandate. One-on-one coaching for people trying to build something inside a large organization: navigating the immune system, finding and keeping sponsors, building the credibility and evidence that protect you, and doing the work without burning out. For the person who keeps hitting walls and wants to learn where the doors are.

I also coach ERG and BRG leaders — individually or as a cohort — who want to move their group from social to strategic, prove its value, and grow their own influence in the process.

Start a Conversation

The best way to know if I can help is to tell me what you’re working on. Whether it’s a stalled innovation program, a team that needs a working session, an event that needs a voice, or your own fight to change a company from the inside — let’s talk.

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