The Chief Explorer, Chief Scout and others in the Innovation Expedition are often engaged by a senior leader of an organization (CEO, VP or Executive Leadership Team) to provide personalized mentoring aimed at improving the capacity of these leaders to create entrepreneurial, collaborative, innovative, high-performing organizations.
We have a distinctive capacity to mentor senior government leaders to understand the whole “supply chain of innovation” and to set the environment for the appropriate balance in investments across this supply chain in order to maximize a region’s or a country’s ability to build innovative enterprises.
Recent examples of this work include our mentoring of leaders in a global network of scientific research centres concerned with agricultural research and a number of University leaders concerned with increasing the capacity of their institution to mobilize, share and utilize knowledge and unleash innovations to support community development.
The team has also been engaged by several high level policy groups in both provincial and federal government agencies to provide them with mentoring on strategies and the process for unleashing innovation. This is positioning the Expedition in a powerful way. For example, our work with provincial Research and Innovation Councils, with the Canadian network of Provincial and Territorial Senior Officers for Innovation, and with senior policy groups serve as powerful examples of the importance of this line of business. |
