Keynotes, masterclasses and hands-on workshops with Pinaki Bhowmick, your Innovation PlayerCoach. Explore business challenges, question familiar assumptions and develop ideas your team can take forward.
For business conferences, corporate innovation days, leadership offsites, GCCs and enterprise teams.
Rethink how your organisation approaches innovation.
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For events & Conferences
For GCC & Enterprises
Build a working session around any challenge your leaders or teams need to address, from problem definition/customer understanding to business models, strategy & innovation culture.
Relevant occasions: Executive leadership sessions, CXO roundtables, signature workshops and tailored bootcamps.
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themes
Conversations for your next conference or innovation day.
Choose a theme below, or share your event brief to shape a session around your audience and programme.
top themes
Innovation is a Discipline
How leaders shape the decisions, practices and learning that support innovation beyond individual events.
From AI Hype to Business Value
How to identify meaningful business opportunities for generative AI and decide what merits exploration.
Customer Experience as an Innovation Engine
Using design thinking to examine customer needs and identify opportunities for better products and services.
Moonshot Thinking
Helping established teams explore ambitious possibilities and question business-as-usual assumptions.
Innovation that Employees Actually Own
Building participation through ownership, working practices and opportunities to experiment.
Leading Innovation During Transformation
Leadership choices that help teams explore new possibilities while responding to uncertainty and delivery demands.
signature
workshops
Choose a workshop around the work ahead.
Five signature workshops address different business needs. The format and depth are selected around your challenge, participants and intended outputs.
5 key workshops
Examine assumptions and define the challenge before committing resources to solutions.
Best suited to: Annual planning offsites, GCC strategy sessions, cross-functional teams and product or service teams preparing for a new cycle.
Formats:
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Leadership session: Half-day
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Cross-functional workshop: 1 - 2 full days
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Conference masterclass: Approx. 2.5 hours
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Examine how market shifts, AI and disruption affect your business model, and identify what to protect, evolve or reconsider.
Best suited to: C-suite teams, business heads and strategy leaders conducting strategic reviews; GCC leaders examining their contribution to the global business.
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Enterprise workshop: 2 full days
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Conference masterclass: 2.5 hours
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Examine the behaviours, decisions and systems that shape innovation, and design practical changes your organisation can test.
Best suited to: Joint CHRO and business leadership teams, cross-functional leaders, and GCC teams developing an innovation mandate.
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Fundamentals: 1 day
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Full design workshop: 2 days
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Larger groups or multiple business units: 3 days
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Work backwards from plausible futures to examine today’s strategy and identify innovation bets.
Best suited to: Leadership teams entering strategic planning, business heads developing a three-year strategy, and GCC leaders defining an evolution roadmap.
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Focused workshop: 2 days
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Extended workshop: 3 days
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Conference masterclass: 2.5 hours
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Use Jobs-to-be-Done thinking to understand what customers are trying to achieve and identify opportunities to improve their experience.
Best suited to: Product, service, customer experience and innovation teams; leaders reviewing customer propositions.
Formats:
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Enterprise workshop: 2–3 full days
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Conference masterclass: 2.5 hours
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Got a challenge that refuses to move?
Or, a big idea that's stuck between slides and execution?
Bring me the messy version!
- The customer pain you can't yet decode/decide
- The process that's bleeding efficiency
- The half-formed thought
- The "we've tried everything" problem
- The AI initiative that looks great on paper but won't scale
Basically, anything that you haven't yet placed in your "cracked it, will do" basket!
I'll start where it hurts.
I'll listen. I'll dig in. Understand your context.
Then come back with how I'd approach it.
