Our network includes CTOs, CMOs and strategy directors from leading companies, professors from major business schools and influential policy advisors for governments.

The Growth Agenda is a unique global network of leading expertise in foresight, strategy and innovation. Our experts include leading academics, experienced individuals who have led major strategic change within organisations to deliver growth and principal advisors who have designed, led and supported major growth programmes around the world. The network includes professors from major business schools, CTOs, CMOs and strategy directors from leading companies, senior consultants and a number of influential policy advisors for governments.

Some key members of the core Growth Agenda team who coordinate and deliver our support include:

Tim Jones

Tim is a founder of the Growth Agenda network and Programme Director of the Future Agenda global open foresight project. He is an expert in innovation, growth and foresight and advises a wide range of organisations on these issues.

For more details about Tim please see his linked-in profile.

Don Abraham

Don is SVP of Trends and Futures Consulting with the Futures Company in New York and, in his time with Social Technologies and the Ernst & Young Centre for Business Innovation, has supported many organisations in the areas of innovation and future strategy.

For more details about Don please see his linked-in profile.

James Alexander

James is a Partner at The Foundation and a trustee of GreenThing and the RSPB. He was previously co-founder and UK CEO of Zopa, the leading peer to peer lending company. Prior to this he was Strategy Director at Egg and a consultant at LEK.

For more details about James please see his linked-in profile.

Peter Bryant

Peter is a Senior Fellow at the Kellogg Innovation Network and Partner at Clareo Partners. He has extensive experience in helping companies in the IT, aerospace and materials sectors to identify and exploit new opportunities.

For more details about Peter please see his linked-in profile.

Chris Burgess

Chris is Head of Sustainability at Salterbaxter, one of Europe’s leading sustainability strategy and comms agencies. Before this he was Sustainability Director for Vodafone, supporting its leadership position and applying technology to sustainability challenges.

For more details about Chris please see his linked-in profile.

Nicky Chambers

Nicky co-founded Best Foot Forward, a sustainability consultancy which pioneered development of carbon and ecological foot-printing. She helps organisations achieve sustainable growth and use their achievements to differentiate themselves in the market.

For more details about Nicky please see her linked-in profile.

Charlie Curson

Charlie is Strategy Director for Vital Marketing and partner at people and strategy consultancy Mandarin. Previously with The Foundation Charlie is an experienced strategist, marketer and innovator.

For more details about Charlie please see his linked-in profile.

David Coates

David is Head of Knowledge Exchange at the Technology Strategy Board in the UK working across multiple sectors and has an extensive background in technology, innovation and strategy consulting.

For more details about David please see his linked-in profile.

Cornelia Daheim

Cornelia is Managing Partner at Z_punkt GmbH – The Foresight Company in Cologne and is also the Geman Node Chair for the global Millennium Project. She is a specialist in corporate foresight and using this to inform strategy development.

For more details about Cornelia please see her linked-in profile.

Charlie Dawson

Charlie is Founding Partner of The Foundation - a consultancy that helps businesses grow more quickly, into new areas, or to fend off threats to their top line. Previously with Saatchi & Saatchi, he helps companies deliver significact step change.

For more details about Charlie please see his linked-in profile.

Al Deakin

Al is a Cultural and Communications Analyst at Space Doctors in the UK. An expert semiotician, he specialises in helping companies understand emerging cultural trends and interpret them to inform new brand, business and product innovations.

For more details about Al please see his linked-in profile.

Roger Dennis

Roger is a specialist in futures thinking and the link via strategy to innovation. Previously Future Technology Specialist at Egg Bank in Europe, he is now founder of Innovation Matters based in New Zealand..

For more details about Roger please see his linked-in profile.

Peter Fisk

Peter is a best-selling author and keynote speaker, a consultant to leading companies and an experienced business leader. He was recently described by Business Strategy Review as “one of the best new business thinkers.”

For more details about Peter please see his linked-in profile.

Anuraj Gambhir

Anuraj has been leading innovation in the mobile sector for over 18 years. He is Head of Multimedia Strategy & Innovation at Ericsson and was previously Group CIO at Spice Corporation and Director, Technology Vision, Strategy & Innovation at Siemens

For more details about Anuraj please see his linked-in profile.

Patrick Harris

Patrick is an expert in digital, innovation and brands, is a director at The Futures Company and used to run thoughtengine. He was formerly VP Business Development and Innovation at T-Mobile and Director of Creaticity at Orange.

For more details about Patrick please see his linked-in profile.

Andy Hines

Andy is a leader in the futures world with a background with Kelloggs, Dow Chemical and in consulting. He is now Lecturer and Executive-in-Residence at the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Futures Studies.

For more details about Andy please see his linked-in profile.

Paul Hobcraft

Paul is an Innovation Knowledge Specialist who helps teams and individuals to grow their skills in innovation management. Now based in Switzerland, he has for many years lived and worked in Singapore helping Asian organisations to improve their innovation capabilities.

For more details about Paul please see his linked-in profile.

Lucy Hooberman

Lucy is Professor and Director of Digital Media and Innovation at the University of Warwick. Her background is in TV, film production and executive television management prior to joining the BBC’s innovation team formed to take the BBC from being an analogue to digital organisation.

For more details about Lucy please see her linked-in profile.

Stephen Johnston

Stephen is CEO of Fordcastle in New York and a leading thinker on the application of new technologies. He was previously Senior Manager in Business Development for Nokia where he led corporate strategy programmes to identify new areas of growth.

For more details about Stephen please see his linked-in profile.

Paul Leatherdale

Paul is Founding Director of Insight Inside. Previously with Added Value, he is an expert in qualitative and quantitative consumer insight and works with many leading global brands.

For more details about Paul please see his linked-in profile.

Joss Langford

Joss is Director of Arch Interface where he helps organisations better manage design and innovation. Previously New Technologies R&D Director with Reckitt Benckiser, he has extensive insight on how companies make the most of their innovation activities.

For more details about Joss please see his linked-in profile.

Ellen Ma

Ellen is a consumer insight and innovation specialist now based in Singapore with extensive experience from working across Asia with companies including Cisco, IBM, and, most recently, WhatIf in Shanghai

For more details about Ellen please see her linked-in profile.

Dave McCormick

Dave worked for Shell for over 30 years leading strategy development, developing business scenarios, identifying emerging growth opportunities and supporting the organisation in making pivotal strategic decisions.He is now an independent consultant.

For more details about Dave please see his linked-in profile.

Dave Nicholson

Dave is Founder of Axial Tilt and Associate Director at Venturing Unlimited. He was previously inventor and founder of Zopa- the worlds first lending and borrowing exchange. Before Zopa he was Strategy Manager at Egg and an Associate at LEK.

For more details about Dave please see his linked-in profile.

Lewis Pinault

Lewis is Founder and Managing Director at BOX and a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics. Previously he ran LEGO’s Serious Play programme, was a VP at both EDS and Gemini Consulting and a Partner at PWC.

For more details about Lewis please see his linked-in profile.

Leo Roodhart

Leo was previously VP Group GameChanger at Shell where he led corporate-wide innovation programmes including Technology Futures. He is now a Senior Advisor for Schlumberger, Non Exec with Reed Elsevier and a fellow at Oxford University.

For more details about Leo please see his linked-in profile.

Tobias Rooney

Tobias has in the past been Strategy Director at Rhodia in France and Principal Consultant at Cap Gemini and Innovaro. He is now with ?WhatIf! – The Innovation Company where he leads major growth strategy projects for clients.

For more details about Tobias please see his linked-in profile.

Bhupendra Sharma

Bhupendra co-founded Erehwon, one of India’s leading innovation consulting firms, which he led for 20 years. He is now running NXTLYF and working in the innovation strategy area with a number of major fast growing organisations.

For more details about Bhupendra please see his linked-in profile.

Hamsini Shivkumar

Hamsini is founder of Leapfrog Strategy Consulting in Delhi and was formerly VP at JWT in India. With over 20 years of experience in consumer insight and branding, she is an expert in consumer – centric innovation, brand strategy, trends and consumer culture.

For more details about Hamsini please see her linked-in profile.

Neal Stone

Neal is Director of leapSTONE where he helps organisations make better use of design and design management. He was previously Head of Design at British Airways where, amongst other projects, he led the redesign of new Club World cabin.

For more details about Neal please see his linked-in profile.

Bettina von Stamm

Bettina is Director of the Innovation Leadership Forum, lectures at several European universities and is a leading author in innovation. She previously led the Innovation Exchange at London Business School.

For more details about Bettina please see her linked-in profile.

Randy Voss

Randy has been a key part of the innovation transformation at Whirlpool delivering technology and product leadership, consumer research and, most recently, global strategy and business development. He is now supporting other companies in improving their growth performance.

For more details about Randy please see his linked-in profile.

Mary Ward

Mary is Director at Innovation Kinetics where she helps companies innovate more effectively. Previously she was Director of Global Innovation at Akzo Nobel and both Director of Innovation and Creative Director at ICI Paints.

For more details about Mary please see her linked-in profile.

Matt Webb

Matt is managing director of the design studio BERG. The studio specialises in product invention and strategy, working with media and technology companies such as the BBC and Nokia, across Web, mobile, video and the Internet of Things.

For more details about Matt please see his linked-in profile.