Innovation & Strategy Advisory

Ventures with impact

As a former IDEO Design Director and Manager at Accenture Strategy, with a more than 15 years of strategic consulting experience, I help startups, scale-ups, and corporate ventures to turn vision into strategy and strategy into tangible results. Together, we define and challenge business models, implement validated learning & test hypothesis, design structures, develop growth paths and intentional experimentation for sustainable impact.

Topics I work on with clients:

  • Strengthening business models for sustainable and scalable growth

  • Clarifying strategic choices, value creation and define actionable hypothesis testing to measure impact

  • Crafting a compelling, purpose-driven narrative that aligns teams and investors

  • Building innovation capabilities and adaptive structures for continuous learning and growth

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  • I work with intra-/entrepreneurs and leadership teams to clarify strategic direction and narrative, guide next steps to get from strategy to action and support accelerated decisions making to move forward with confidence.

  • I partner with startups/ scaleups and ventures to uncover untapped potential by deeply understanding customer needs, defining how to create & capture value, and designing the customer experience as well as defining capability needs to deliver.

  • Feeling stuck in old ways of working? I help your organization build the muscle and structure to continuously innovate from within, transforming new ideas into real, lasting impact for a more agile future.

Selected Work Examples

  • Innovation Strategy

    Building innovation accelerator to unleash organizational exploration power

    Fostering innovation across the organization I worked with a global organization establishing a connected, customer-centric innovation entity. Through building capabilities and processes for prototyping, validating, and scaling, we empowered teams to push boundaries and drive change. As a result, 5 beacon projects were successfully delivered, with 3 scaling, creating a sustainable innovation culture aligned with strategic goals.

  • Gaining strategic alignment and action-based decision making for a new venture

    I designed and facilitated an interactive workshop that guided participants through defining their strategic 'Where to Play, How to Win' framework, establishing core values, co-creating a concrete learning framework, mapping customer journeys, and reviewing first prototypes for a new venture. 

    This process led to clear alignment, identified key success factors, and surfaced potential risks, enabling the client to move forward and define a clear action plan.

  • Mentoring for climate-focused startups to refine business model and decision making

    I support entrepreneurs to develop their business ideas, provide feedback along viability, desirability and feasibility as well as act as board member in mock board meetings to refine their decision-making and strengthen their ability to engage with a board effectively.

    Since 2009 VilCap Investments, has invested in 110 startups that have gone on to raise more than $500 million in follow-on capital. The Greentech Europe program supports gender-diverse Greentech innovation in Europe.

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Let’s explore your current challenges, understand what matters most to you, and see how we could work together to strengthen your impact. No obligations — just a conversation to gain clarity, share perspectives, and find the best way forward.

You can also contact me via Email:

rebecca@futureforwardleadership.eu

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