Dr Dave Richards helps enterprises achieve their full potential for all kinds ofinnovation – including new product development, technology applications, businessimprovement, customer engagement, and open innovation. His approach is toimprove strategic focus, customer centricity, team motivation and cohesion, andinnovation leadership capabilities. He has a highly successful track record of drivinggrowth of market share, profitability, valuations, and organizational capacity for valuecreation. He directly led the creation of $ Billions of shareholder value as a globallyresponsible senior executive with Nortel Networks and Oracle Corporation, playing akey role in commercializing the early internet. He is a globally recognized innovationthought-and-practice leader, author, speaker, entrepreneur, and co-founder of theMIT Innovation Lab. According to Roger Lacey, former Chief Strategy Officer of 3M,Dave’s highly acclaimed book, The Seven Sins of Innovation: A Strategic Model forEntrepreneurship, “elevates the thinking on this crucial subject to the highest level”.Dave is a ‘Canadian-American Brit’, working globally, and living primarily inBuckinghamshire, UK with his wife and youngest children.
