The Agile Innovation Organisation  (featuring “The Innovation Race” gamified simulation)

1. The Future of the Innovation Race:

The Future of the Innovation Race: Rethinking What It Takes to Win

While the pace of innovation continues to accelerate, many leaders struggle to move beyond trendspotting to true transformation. This session challenges the assumption that today’s frontrunners — like Google and OpenAI — hold all the answers, and instead reveals why most organisations are only solving half the puzzle. Drawing on global research and real-world case studies, this presentation introduces a new model for sustainable innovation. It explores how shifting perspective can unlock untapped potential, and how diverse cultures, companies, and countries are navigating the race differently — and often more effectively. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of what it really means to compete, adapt, and thrive in the innovation race.

Key Focus Areas:

• Challenging assumptions about who’s truly leading innovation and why
• Exploring global case studies that reveal overlooked innovation strategies
• Equipping leaders with practical models to drive sustainable, long-term transformation

🔑 Key Takeaways:
✔ Innovation leadership requires more than trend-following — it demands a shift in mindset, not just tools.
✔ Sustainable innovation thrives on perspective diversity, not imitation of market leaders.
✔ Winning the innovation race means balancing speed with strategic depth — not everyone who moves fast finishes strong.

2. Organisational Innovation Culture Mapping Best Practices

An interactive workshop (that can include the featured ‘The Amazing Innovation Race’ gamified simulation) that takes participants on a global innovation journey packed with both historical and contemporary case studies of companies, countries and cultures that successfully and unsuccessfully navigated the innovation pathway. (Who wins, loses and gets eliminated)

Building an Innovation-Ready Organisation: Aligning for Agile yet Sustainable Growth
This session empowers organisations to identify and address the structural tensions that emerge during growth and transformation. By aligning individual and team strengths with strategic goals, leaders can foster a culture that embraces change, enhances adaptability, and drives long-term innovation.

Key Focus Areas:

• Understand how to surface and manage organisational tensions that impact innovation and transformation.
• Align leadership, teams, and strategy to support scalable, sustainable growth.
• Build a culture that balances agility with long-term direction.

💡Key Takeaways:

✔ A unified organisational roadmap that supports innovation at every level
✔ Stronger cross-functional collaboration and role clarity.
✔ Increased capacity to lead and sustain transformation across the enterprise.

✔ Map a clear, adaptive path for individuals and teams to lead sustainable innovation fro their organisation, into the future.

3: Innovation Culture Applications Checklist

This session covers how to use a detailed checklist learn to plot the best practices of innovative cultures (including companies and countries). The paradox checkpoint summary checklist helps participants to reflect on these successful culture and practices and map current and desired states.

Outcomes & Takeaways

1. Map ‘current’ and ‘desired’ states‘ revealing innovation readiness for your organisation.
2. Learn how to lead a culture of innovation and navigate rapid change through case studies and ‘our organisation’ checklists.
3. Identify how to navigate the organisation through the 4 key ‘Paradox Pair’ behaviors using the Polar Positioning tool
4. Connect behaviors with practical applications and actions required to innovate forward.
5. Create a strategic implementable plan / road map for sustainable innovation with practical action plans and behavior strategies.
6. Identify how to ensure the goals can be reached through filtering through the leadership and the organisation.