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INNOVATION MANAGEMENT

Bring your sustainability goals closer with the transformative potential
of enhanced innovation management capability

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Build An Innovation Pipeline Towards Your Sustainability Goals INNOVATE FASTER

Innovation management is essential for sustainability, driving the development and implementation of technologies and practices that reduce material impacts. By leveraging the power of AI, you can accelerate your innovation output, uncovering patterns, optimising resource use, and generating data-driven insights that push sustainable solutions further. This not only enables continuous improvement in response to evolving challenges but also opens new opportunities to move beyond simply reducing harm toward creating net-positive impact. From sustainable business models to circular products and services, human capital development remains key—equipping your team with the skills and knowledge needed to harness AI, innovate effectively, and manage change with confidence.

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Are You Innovation-Ready? BUILD YOUR PIPELINE

Building on decades of practical innovation experience, our team of innovation experts and Innovation360 Licensed Practitioners bring a wealth of expertise. We are proud to partner with Innovation360 to deploy the world-class Transformation360 suite of innovation management tools. Whether co-authoring the ISO56000 global best practice standards, implementing circular business models, advising executive teams or training the next generation of innovation leaders, we are at the forefront of the innovation management discipline.

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The Global Standard ISO56001

The innovation management discipline is rapidly maturing with the launch of ISO56000 series of standards and most recently ISO56001. We, along with our Innovation360 colleagues, have contributed extensively to the development of these global standards. We support our clients to assess their innovation management capabilities, readiness for ISO56001 certification and implementation of their Innovation Management Systems.

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A Roadmap To The Future CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT

We bring decades of experience in innovation, learning & development and management systems deployment. Fundamental to our evidence-driven approach is our deep understanding of the critical capabilities that are essential for innovation. Drawing on the largest knowledge base of innovation capabilities, we help you understand where you stand today, what your future capabilities need to be to achieve your sustainability goals and how to translate your vision into reality.

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Leading Innovation For A Sustainable Future INNOVATION LEADERSHIP

From masterclasses for executive teams to Innovation Academies, we teach, facilitate, mentor, and coach current and future generations of innovation leaders. By integrating AI-driven insights and tools, we help organizations accelerate problem-solving, enhance decision-making, and unlock new opportunities for sustainable growth. We believe in the transformative potential of people—empowered by technology—to tackle our greatest challenges head-on and develop the solutions needed for a better world. Growing the innovation leadership capabilities of your organization draws on our multidisciplinary expertise in innovation, leadership, organizational development, culture change, and management systems, ensuring that AI becomes a catalyst for smarter, faster, and more impactful innovation.

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Our Innovation360Licensed Practitioners bring a wealth of innovation management, learning & development and sectoral experience to bear in selecting the appropriate solution for your needs.

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From single masterclass events for executive leaders to large-scale organisational development initiatives and innovation academies, we are here to support your journey to innovate faster. Choose from virtual instructor-led, in-person or blended options.

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We offer customised innovation management solutions tailored to your needs or integrated into existing programs. Talk to us today to see how we can supercharge innovation for your organisation.
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Meet our Team

Angelo McNeive
CEO, Head of Change & Sustainability Practice
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CEO, Head of Change & Sustainability Practice
Angelo McNeive
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Angelo is a business psychologist, advisor and facilitator with experience supporting clients across public sector to develop and execute strategy including the National Digital Strategy, Public Service Reform. With over 25 years global experience in L&D, his human capital development work focuses on building critical human and organisational capabilities in change, innovation and sustainability leadership.  He works with executive and senior leadership teams across a range of sectors. Angelo holds an Honours Degree in Psychology, a Masters Degree in Business Administration and an MSc in Occupational Psychology. He is a Chartered Psychologist in Ireland and a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development in the UK.

EXPERTISE

  • Change Management
  • Sustainability Management
  • Innovation
  • Learning and Development
  • Organisational Development
  • Facilitation

Phil Kildea
Head of Culture Practice
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Head of Culture Practice
Phil Kildea

Phil is a facilitator, executive coach and co-founder of STEPSTONE Consulting with over twenty-five years management, leadership and people development experience. with over twenty years experience in learning and development, Phil has delivered hundreds of programmes in Ireland and the UK for leading private and public sector organisations. Over the previous eleven years with the Bank of Ireland group he held various management roles in the retail business. His sectoral experience includes financial services, SMEs, professional services, government and retail. Phil has taught management at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His focus areas include: culture, leadership and management development, facilitation and coaching.

Phil holds an Honours Degree in Business, a Masters Degree in Business Administration, a Graduateship in Marketing from the Marketing Institute of Ireland, a National Diploma in Personnel Management and a Graduate Diploma in Executive Coaching. He is a member of the Irish Institute of Training and Development (IITD) and the Marketing Institute of Ireland (MII).

Phil is a certified NLP Master Practitioner (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and is certified to administer EQi Bar on Emotional Intelligence.

EXPERTISE

  • Learning and development
  • Management and leadership development
  • Personal effectiveness
  • Executive coaching
  • Facilitation

Eoin Flavin
Head of Innovation Practice
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Head of Innovation Practice
Eoin Flavin
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Eoin is a successful Innovation Management advisor, a world-leading expert in and contributor to the ISO 56000 family of global Innovation Management standards and a 2nd Dan Innovation Management Black Belt with Innovation360. He is also vice-chair of Ireland’s advisory committee on innovation standards and co-founder of Innovate Island, the community for innovation practitioners, advocates and explorers throughout Ireland.

As a serial builder of successful new businesses, teams and systems, Eoin delivers sustained growth and other impacts with leaders at multi-nationals and startups alike.  Eoin always focuses on people and their real needs; synthesising the right capabilities, strategies, cultures and systems for each team and context.

Eoin’s 30-year career has encompassed senior technical, operations and commercial roles for multi-nationals. He currently advises service sectors, businesses and public agencies across Europe. Key achievements include building new medical device and cleanroom business units, crafting new International Risk Management Standards and tripling the revenue for a European division of an American chemicals business. Eoin holds a BA (Hons) Psychology from University College Dublin.

EXPERTISE

  • Innovation Management Systems
  • International standards author and developer (ISO and CEN)
  • Technical advisor on systems and standards
  • Specialist in developing new business unit startups
  • Facilitation and Training
  • Management systems (Quality, Environment, Risk, Safety)
  • Business to Business Services
  • Procurement & supply chain development

Jackie Burke
Client Services Manager
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Client Services Manager
Jackie Burke
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Jackie has almost thirty years experience in Financial Services having held senior client-facing roles in Treasury at leading financial institutions including Bank of Ireland, BNP Paribas, and The National Treasury Management Agency. Jackie brings a highly disciplined and dedicated ethos to supporting our client engagements. Jackie is a successful author, having written eight novels, and speaker. Jackie holds a BA in Personnel Management from the National College of Ireland.

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  • Client Services
  • Learning & Development
  • Financial Services
  • HR

Linus Murphy
Senior Leadership Development Associate
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Senior Leadership Development Associate
Linus Murphy

Linus Murphy is a highly experienced Executive Leadership Coach and CEO with over 30 years leadership experience. He coaches executive leaders in over twenty countries to achieve their goals, overcome challenges, and enhance impact. His clients include senior leaders of large, complex and culturally diverse organisations in a range of sectors, including government. Linus draws on his expertise in leadership, high performance and communication to help clients identify and address common leadership blind spots that limit their potential.

As a former CEO of large multinational organisations, Linus understands the complex and dynamic environment that public sector leaders operate in, and the skills and mindsets they need to succeed. He helps his clients to develop and strengthen the core competencies that are essential for effective leadership such as strategic thinking, decision making, influence, stakeholder management, collaboration, team building, innovation, creativity, resilience, and adaptability.

Linus’ Transformational Leadership Coaching Model offers an holistic approach to fostering lasting change in executive’s leadership practice and their careers by addressing multiple effectiveness dimensions. He has lectured at IMD, University of Zurich, BI Norwegian Business School, and EFMD.

A former competitive cyclist, Linus was the Irish National Cycling Champion, representing Ireland at national and international events.

Eric Paquin
Senior Innovation Management Associate
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Senior Innovation Management Associate
Eric Paquin
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Eric Paquin is an innovation and product management professional with over two decades of extensive experience in the technology sector. His expertise lies in blending technology with human-centred design to create meaningful, user-centric solutions. He has a proven track record as a Chief Technology Officer and Innovation Manager, where he has been pivotal in leading digital transformations and implementing innovation strategies particularly around language models products at CLEAR Global. Throughout his career, Eric has led strategic product initiatives, championed digital transformations, and built strong, cross-functional teams. Eric thrives in dynamic environments, guiding organisations through the entire innovation journey, from ideation to prototyping and market launch. Whether it’s delivering impactful product strategies or empowering others to innovate, he is committed to driving growth and fostering a culture of creativity and collaboration. Eric holds an MSc in Product Management and a Certificate in Innovation and Technology Management, with a specialisation in Design Thinking for Strategy.

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  • Innovation
  • Design Thinking
  • Product Development
  • Digital Transformation
  • AI
  • Facilitation and Training

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