Independent Strategic Innovation & Design Research Agency
Strategic Innovation & Design Services
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The Unlock
Together, we are
Innovation roadblocks are inevitable!
An independent perspective can build clarity—and bandwidth—to accelerate progress.
The challenges you feel are common: Resource constraints, competing priorities, front-end process issues, the pressure to deliver a new story quickly and fill the funnel - or simply too many ideas and options....
The Unlock blends the creative pace of design thinking with the commercial impact of business growth strategy to structure foundations for future success.
Through focused project collaborations and workshops, we will help you address barriers to innovation progress and build clear paths for your team's creativity and expertise to address 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.
Client Testimonials
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:
