InnovationLabs was established in 2001. The four founding partners began working together as early as 1988. From its inception, InnovationLabs was designed to be a network organization, with a large team of associates and business partners located all over the world. Currently our network includes of dozens of people located in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. For each engagement, we bring together the right team of people and custom design the work flow and the client experience so that we discover and implement the best solutions for each situation.

Co-Founders

Bryan Coffman

Bryan has designed and facilitated hundreds of collaborative events focusing on strategy formation, organizational transformation, new product ideation and development, and innovation.  His clients have included a broad range of international firms, large companies, emerging growth firms, small start-ups, government and military organizations, not-for-profit organizations, public school systems, urban planning firms, real estate development and finance companies, and high tech firms. (321-287-1100 or email at bcoffman at innovationlabs dot com )

Michael Kaufman

Michael is an internationally recognized facilitator, consultant, and experiential educator, focusing on strategy formation, complex problem solving, innovative product and service design, and organizational transformation. His approach to facilitation combines twenty years of experience including the best of Accelerated Learning, the Design Process, brain-based learning and a rich background in the practice of innovation and collective creativity. (510-903-0652 or email at mkaufman at innovationlabs dot com )

Langdon Morris

Langdon is known worldwide for his work in innovation, strategy, and collaboration methodologies.  Recent clients include Novotel, NASA, Total Oil, SAP, Gemalto, the Federal Reserve Bank, Tata Group, France Telecom, StanfordUniversity, the University of Minnesota Medical School, Cap Gemini, DuPont,Wipro, L’Oréal, Accor Hotels, and many others.  He is Senior Practice Scholar of the Ackoff Center at the University of Pennsylvania; a Senior Fellow of the Economic Opportunities Program of the Aspen Institute; a member of the Scientific Committee of Business Digest, Paris, and a member of the Editorial Committee of The International Journal of Innovation Science. He has taught MBA courses in strategy at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris and Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires. He is the author, co-author, or editor of six highly acclaimed books, with editions in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and French, as well as of numerous white papers and articles. (925-934-1786 or email at lmorris at innovationlabs dot com )

Jay Smethurst

Jay has designed and co-facilitated dozens of sessions with businesses, government agencies, national design firms, and international corporations, dealing with such issues as new venture creation, strategic planning, process re-engineering, master planning, development financing, and curriculum development. His specialty is working with innovation teams to focus and prepare ideas for evaluation and investment. He has authored a number of articles on collaboration, intranets, and visual modeling. (321-287-4417 or email at jsmethurst at innovationlabs dot com )

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Business Associates

Avnindra Sharma

InnovationLabs South Asia
Avnindra InnovationLabs Resident Associate  for South Asia has pursued interests in research, training, consulting and writing on contemporary management issues.  He headed India Benchmarking Center at the Institute of Quality Limited (IQL), a leading management consulting company of India.  He now focuses on training executives through value-based executive development programs in innovation, creativity, and negotiation.

Chad Hostetler

Co-founder of Illumination Galleries and owner of White Oak Designs Chad brings a wealth of knowledge from more than 15 years in learning and development. He has worked with global companies and organizations in every sector of business and non-profits. His clients often refer to him as a creative tour de force as he seeks out every opportunity to make a big impact when designing and facilitating events that produce real results.

Christopher Fuller

For over 15 years, Christopher Fuller has worked as a graphic facilitator and is considered one of its leading talents in this unique industry. Capturing stories in real time with pictures and words for some of the most prominent companies and organizations throughout the world, Mr. Fuller has supported conferences and strategic planning sessions for a wide variety of industries covering a myriad of business topics and almost every conceivable organizational dilemma.

Since 1998 Mr. Fuller’s company, Griot’s Eye (www.griotseye.com), has provided strategic graphic recording services to corporations such as, Aventis Pasteur, Silicon Graphics Inc., M&M Mars, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Coca-Cola, and Disney Interactive Media Group. He received his degree in Visual Art from Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Dan Rose

Omakase Group is a boutique consulting firm specializing in designing and facilitating multi-day workshops that allow the potential of an organizations’ collective intelligence to rapidly solve its most complex problems.

Diane Castiglioni

Diane has been designing and facilitating collaborative experiences since 1999. Her experience with clients ranges from Fortune 100 to start-ups to not-for-profit and educational organizations. Diane brings her heart and soul to every project she is a part of.

Disa Kauk

Dscribe is a Toronto based company that links the ‘left brained’ world of business with the ‘right brained’ world of art and model creation to create an experience for people that enables them to identify with their work in new ways.

Frances Gillard

Frances has collaborated with a myriad of clients and teams all over the world to provide innovative results since 1992. She provides multiple talents and skills to each engagement, but is particularly known for her process management and graphic recording skills. She operates through her own successful company, Branching Out, located in middle Tennessee.

Liisa Sorsa

ThinkLinkGraphics – Liisa Sorsa is an experienced facilitator, graphic recorder and visual language expert. Liisa helps people to visualize concepts and turns complex problems into easy to understand models. Graphic facilitation helps people to ‘see what they mean’.

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Business Partners

CICIC:  China Institute for Creativity, Innovation, and Competitiveness

Continuum Global

ContinuumGlobal is a growth solutions firm with extensive domestic and international sales, marketing, technology and management experience with leading B2B and B2C corporations – from early stage start-ups to multinational corporations. Our team comprises experienced, very successful professionals with backgrounds in multinational corporations as well as start-ups they founded, built into multi-million dollar operations before they managed profitable exits.

Fonvillars Calligaro

Illumination Galleries

llumination Galleries is a meeting design company that focuses on great interactions. We transform meeting space into a dynamic grand central station filled with content, tools and resources to create a much more valuable face-to-face experience. It becomes the ideal place for people and ideas to converge.

InnoEnterprise China

Kinetic Energies

Kinetic Energies‘ vision is to allow everyone, with the desire to work in a collaborative environment, the ability to create that environment wherever that work might be. Our mission is to provide the physical infrastructure required for a collaborative environment. In line with our vision, this requires us to create portable collaborative work spaces of high quality and low cost.

Point Forward

Point Forward’s work is often used to develop key value propositions and to populate product funnels with new ideas. The principals of Point Forward are pioneers in creating customer insights and innovation based on ethnographic research. They thrive on crossing disciplinary boundaries, digging deep and challenging conventional wisdom.

Y Studios

Y Studios LLC is a multidisciplinary design consultancy with a diverse portfolio of work in graphics, packaging, interface, footwear and industrial design. Y Vision conducts socio-cultural research and translates unique insights into tangible design solutions that help their clients grow their businesses.

Research Edge

Research Edge, LLC is the leading real-time research firm. Focused exclusively on generating and delivering actionable investment ideas, the firm combines quantitative, bottoms-up and macro analysis with an emphasis on timing. The Research Edge team features some of the world’s most regarded research analysts – united around a vision of independent, un-compromised real-time investment research as a service. We measure ourselves on our core values: Transparency, Accountability, and Trust.

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