Independent Strategic Innovation & Design Research Agency
Strategic Innovation & Design Services
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The Unlock
Together, we are...
Building clarity to unlock innovation roadblocks.
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Translating new science and technology into people-centred growth propositions.
The challenges you feel are common...
Resource constraints, competing priorities, front-end process issues, the pressure to deliver a new story quickly, fill the funnel, or simply too many ideas and options....
When certainty proves elusive, the desire to make the right decision can make it difficult to commit. An independent perspective can build clarity—and bandwidth—to move forward.
The Unlock blends the creative pace of design thinking with the commercial impact of business growth strategy to structure foundations for future success.
Focused project collaborations, workshops and sprints help address barriers to progress, build alignment, and structure clear paths to connect your team's creativity and expertise to market opportunities.
Services Overview
Strategy, Design & Innovation
Identifying growth opportunities, addressing challenges and priorities, and generating new, people-centred concepts through structured insight and creativity.
Thematic Expertise
Specialist category and sector knowledge across Consumer Packaged Goods, Consumer Technology, Health, Wellness & Personal Care, and FemTech.
Advisory & Leadership
Advisory & NED.
Speaking & Event Moderation
Innovation Capability Training & Entrepreneurship Mindset Coaching.
Treasured Client Testimonials
2026
I had the privilege of bringing in Ben to help facilitate a productive, rigorous and focused 1.5 day hybrid (physically present and online) innovation workshop this year for some of our important brands. A new, streamlined set of pre-work and templates and custom approach helped the team ensure we remained focused on the consumer needs, tensions, barriers, trends and market behaviors to identify relevant technical and innovative solutions. I would recommend Ben to any organizations, who is asking their teams to think bigger, think deeper, act with focus and move with pace.
Principal Scientist, R&D - Client Confidential
2025
"You helped us really question everything about today's world and start with the consumer needs and the basic principles of innovation to build an empirical framework with which to discover and test new ideas and theories"
Innovation Director, R&D, Global Consumer Business - Client Confidential
2025
"You have an excellent facilitation style! Very accommodating, flexible and above all, listened attentively to all inputs"
R&D Team Member, $bn Consumer Brand Owner - Client Confidential
2024
"Ben's experience of fast-moving consumer and health markets, ability to pose the right questions, and skill in structuring and facilitating innovation workshops, has helped us prioritise, achieve consensus, and enabled the team to more effectively align brands, capabilities and technologies with market opportunity"
EVP, European Pharma Business, Client Confidential
We are thrilled to have collaborated with innovation and business teams pioneering improved products, services and experiences across the globe! Some of our valued clients and partners remain confidential at this time:
