Chris helped us up super-effective IDEATE design thinking workshops, generating new prototypes in record time, delighting our customers.

Chris spelled out a compelling vision for the future of commerce – we adjusted our product roadmap, and a year later, his predictions were spot on. He is an invaluable resource in any strategic planning session, bringing his optimistic futurism to help us to understand “what’s next.”

For our 20th anniversary, we tapped Chris to use his IDEATE practice to look at our future product roadmap. We crowdsourced concepts from our employees, giving out awards for the best ideas and dropping them into a time capsule, finding the best and building those now.

Chris helped us to understand that our plan to build in China was premature – we needed to protect our medical device from possible IP theft. Additionally, he helped direct us to new markets we hadn’t considered.

Chris is awesome at developing new product concepts – whenever he is in the room we are sure to generate profitable product ideas.

Chris overhauled our whole product roadmap, generating tons of new ideas. He also created a really fun futurist program which not only generated a lot of interesting new products and patents but also shot our employee engagement numbers through the roof.

Chris created whole new product categories with intensive IDEATE sessions with our teams and in some sessions generated over 50 product ideas in less than 2 hours. Phenomenal! Really helped us to build a valuable portfolio – when the company was sold it was valued at over $1B, mostly due to his work.

Our smoking cessation app was in trouble. Chris advised us to increase our prices instead of reducing them. To become a more exclusive, expensive product. A smaller, more lucrative market was better for us than a broader pitch to other habits. We reached profitability faster.

Chris ran his IDEATE 10-year scenario backcast session with our team to develop our next years’ product roadmap.  I was skeptical at first but when we were done, we got more value from his two-hour-long session than our week-long “planning offsite”

We are an old-school retailer, getting crushed by Amazon (like most others in our space). Chris reworked our product line to “leapfrog” over our competition, invent beyond what they do, and leverage our core strengths — catching up fast.

We were building an innovative new job-finding solution and were flailing. Chris helped us to pivot in a completely new direction, blowing our competitors out of the water. Got to product/market fit faster than we thought. Invaluable advice!