Work With Me
For leaders facing the kind of decision that keeps you up at night.
Work With Me
The growth of the modern economy comes from inventions that did not exist a generation ago. Containerized shipping. The transistor. The mobile phone. Each of them started as an idea.
Then somebody said yes, they would invent it. That is the whole mechanism, and it is more human than the word innovation makes it sound.
I've spent forty years on both halves of it. Deciding what was worth building, and then building it. The best ways to engage depend on where you are on the journey.
The Innovators Studio
The Studio has existed since 2012. About a thousand square feet, on my ranch in Colorado, and nearly everything I make comes out of it.
An idea without execution is a hobby, and I'm not in the hobby business. That's the job here, and the form changes with the idea. Nearly 1,000 free podcasts and videos, where I show others what and how I do it. Short films where we tell the story of an innovation that is still years from shipping. Rooms and experiences built for museums and public venues, where people walk into a future instead of dreaming about it.
It is also how I end up in other people's rooms. Keynotes and custom sessions, and workshops for teams that want to walk out with a pipeline of their next innovations. Disney, NASA, Mayo Clinic, Marines, Kroger, the Green Bay Packers, and dozens of others have all experienced it.
The portfolio is on the Studio page.
Go to the Studio →Techtrend Group
Bringing in outside analysis used to buy you cover. It doesn't anymore. Your competitors have the same data, the same tools, the same first-pass answer you do. What's left is judgment, and that only comes from someone who has actually sat in your chair and made these calls before.
Which signal is real, and which is noise. Which project gets funded and which gets killed. When to commit and when to wait. When to go alone and when to bring in a partner. Every one of them looks obvious after the fact. In the chair, none of them are.
None of this works as a one-time engagement. It's a retained relationship, a small number of leaders at a time, close enough to the business that when the next call comes, neither of us is starting from zero.
I say yes when I can make a difference. If I can't, I say so.
Go to Techtrend →Innovation Tools
Everything in the store started as something I built and used myself, years before I thought about selling it. The Killer Questions Card Deck is the set of questions I collected over decades and used in my own practice. My book, Beyond the Obvious, grew out of those same questions and the podcast, and it's the closest thing to a written record of how the Studio does what it does.
The 7 Laws of Innovation started as a checklist I built for myself. The poster came later, when a fan asked for one to use around their office. Every dollar it earns goes to Hacking Autism.
None of it requires a conversation or an introduction. A handful of the downloads, including the AI Creativity Multiplier, cost nothing at all.
Go to Innovation.Tools →Follow Along
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