DR. DAVE RICHARDS · ADVISOR. AUTHOR. SPEAKER.
Bridge strategy and culture.
Build the leadership that makes it happen.
For CEOs and senior teams ready to turn growth ambitions into shared direction, stronger capabilities and meaningful progress.
Innovation requires leadership and strategy. But culture eats strategy for breakfast. The key is bridging the two—with the right leadership mindset.
Your ambition is on the page. Progress depends on what people believe, commit to and do. Dave’s approach connects those human realities with the strategy.
Seven connections. Select one to see its bridging agendas.
Bridging agendas: Results and Strategic Intent.
Bridging agendas: Strategic Intent and Intelligence.
Bridging agendas: Intelligence and Value & Values.
Bridging agendas: Value & Values and Relationships.
Bridging agendas: Relationships and Transformation.
Bridging agendas: Transformation and Capabilities.
Bridging agendas: Capabilities and Results.
Follow the relationships between strategy, human nature and the bridging agendas.
Discover how strategy, leadership and human nature connect to build innovation capability.
Advice for your decisions. A shared direction for your team. A new perspective for your audience.
CEOs & SENIOR LEADERS
Bring the questions at the intersection of strategy, leadership, culture and innovation. Gain an outside perspective grounded in executive experience and psychology.
LEADERSHIP TEAMS & ORGANIZATIONS
Understand the cultural patterns affecting performance. Create shared direction and strengthen the capabilities your strategy needs.
CONFERENCES & LEADERSHIP EVENTS
Keynotes and masterclasses that make complex ideas accessible and give your audience insights and tools for strategic innovation leadership.
“Dr Dave has a unique ability to take complex ideas and make them both accessible and actionable.”
Focused workshops and sustained engagements, shaped around the work an organization needs to do.
Explore all client engagementsTechnology manufacturing
Build leadership cohesion around complex customer relationships and a shared commercial goal.
Read the engagementFinancial services
Connect mission, vision, goals and measures in a plan the leadership team can work with.
Read the engagementOrganizational culture
Connect workforce engagement with staff loyalty and the experience customers receive.
Read the engagementDave’s framework connects the seven elements of strategy to the seven aspects of human nature. Every sin has a corresponding virtue—a capability you can strengthen.
“Elevates the thinking on this crucial subject to the highest level.”
Roger H.D. LaceyFormer Chief Strategy Officer, 3M · Foreword author
“In this book, he conveys a lifetime of important innovation management insights to fellow practitioners.”
Eric von HippelCo-Founder, The MIT Innovation Lab · Professor, MIT Sloan
SEVEN ELEMENTS. ONE CONNECTED SYSTEM.
Connect strategic intent with the purpose and passions that motivate people.
Does purpose guide what we say and do every day?
Connect the direction of the enterprise with aspirations and goals people commit to.
Are we aligned on the future we are working to create?
Make value and values clear, and give people a voice in the conversation.
Do we powerfully articulate our core value proposition?
Strengthen the relationships, empathy and involvement that support collective progress.
How committed are we to delivering value to all stakeholders?
Responsibly empower leadership in all people, at all levels, throughout your organization.
Are we investing in the right areas to achieve our goals?
Create the conditions for new thinking, then develop the capability to put ideas into practice.
What are we doing to enable out of the box thinking and ideas?
Encourage behaviors that shape results and strengthen the habits that support innovation.
Are we holding each other accountable for achieving results?
Explore the model, the book and the thinking behind it.
Discover The Seven Sins of Innovation
“I don’t sell ideas.
I build muscles.”
From high school dropout to a PhD in mathematical psychology and neuroscience, Dave has built a career connecting strategic choices with the human forces that shape them.
At Nortel Networks, he led the Data business from a money-losing start-up to multi-billion-dollar growth during the commercialization of the internet.
In 1993, he co-founded The MIT Innovation Lab with Professor Eric von Hippel. Today, he brings that combination of research and real-world leadership to CEOs and senior teams through Dr Dave Innovation.
Work with DaveBring the ambition. Bring the friction. Let’s explore the leadership and cultural capabilities your next step depends on.
