Co-founder of innovation consultancy OUTCOME  -  Author  -  Speaker  -  Board Chair/Advisor  -  Adjunct Faculty  -  Investor

London Area, United Kingdom

OUTCOME is a boutique innovation advisory firm founded by Cris Beswick and Dan Toma. Combining thinking and approaches from their two bestselling books Building a Culture of Innovation and The Corporate Startup their work is based on a holistic, outcome-driven approach to supercharging leadership and corporate innovation performance.

Outcome works with senior teams around the world on the strategy, leadership and culture required for innovation in order to solve today’s innovation-led growth challenges whilst building the capabilities for shaping the future.

OUTCOME

Co-founder

Charter member of this highly-regarded, highly-impactful, and very forward-looking think tank.

On the Twentieth Anniversary of the Agile Manifesto, we collectively crafted "The Future Fit Manifesto" - a manifesto that charges organizations with proactively shaping their futures, not simply reacting to the future as it unfolds - a recipe that no longer works given the pace of technological change we are witnessing.

This think tank will constantly champion the cause of the Future Fit / Future Ready organization - organizations capable of remaining relevant to the world of today, while also resilient to the ongoing sea of change happening all about us. These are the organizations who will still be creating tremendous value - not years, not decades, but centuries from now.

Further In and Higher Up...

Future-Fit Manifesto

Contributing Author

The GFM is the first localised Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) established in Hampshire. The founding schools of the GFM are Bay House Academy, Gomer Junior School and LWS Academy. Brune Park School joined the GFM in May 2017 and Rowner Junior School in September 2018. The GFM recognises the need to work in partnership with Hampshire County Council and all local schools to build better outcomes and opportunities for the young people of Gosport and Fareham.

It is through our collective endeavour that we can make a difference, with Gosport and Fareham learners’ achievement being greater and them aspiring further. The local commitment to this initiative is overwhelming; schools and communities see this as an opportunity for a group of schools to become greater than the sum of their parts. The members and directors have a clear ambition and belief in local schools working together for the benefit of all their young people.

Gosport and Fareham MAT

Chairman Of The Board

In partnership with CEO Rasmus Bie-Olsen and his team, Dan Toma and I have launched an ambitious international partnership with DareDisrupt. We can now combine DareDisrupt's leading Nordic approach with our international brand 'Outcome' to help clients build innovation systems that successfully drive growth and value i.e. no more Innovation Theatre!

DareDisrupt

Associate Partner

Cris Beswick has recently been appointed to the Board of Advisors of Global Innovation Institute (GInI). Global Innovation Institute is the world's leading certification, accreditation, and membership organisation in the field of innovation. Its Board of Advisors is a highly prestigious group whose members are chosen based on their demonstrated contribution to the practice of innovation. Learn more about GInI at <a href="http://www.gini.org">www.gini.org</a>, and about the Institute's Board of Advisors at <a href="https://www.gini.org/board-of-advisors">https://www.gini.org/board-of-advisors</a>.

GInI - Global Innovation Institute

Member Of The Board Of Advisors

Innovators CoLab is a private collaboration of corporate innovators working together to produce steady streams of fresh, new innovations that increase enterprise value. We connect our members with all the resources needed to innovate in a fast paced, global marketplace driven by computers and new technologies. In my capacity as Advisory Board Member I help the collaboration by providing insights from the front lines of global innovation.

Innovators CoLab

Cris Beswick is a Serial Entrepreneur turned Innovation Strategist, Keynote Speaker & Bestselling Author.

Originally trained as an industrial designer, Cris spent over a decade as a successful entrepreneur & CEO building an award-winning design group. He is now a strategic advisor on innovation, recognised globally as a thought leader on innovation strategy, leadership and culture and has helped some of the world’s most ambitious CEOs, visionary leaders, Fortune 500 companies and Governments solve their most complex innovation challenges, develop game-changing innovation capability and build a culture of innovation.

Based in London but working internationally Cris is a Visiting Fellow and Professor at several of the world’s leading Business Schools and a regular keynote speaker at global innovation conferences.

Cris is also the author of the book, 'The Road to Innovation’ and co-author of 'Building a Culture of Innovation’, an amazon bestseller and voted one of the CMI’s top books on innovation in 2017.

He is also the co-founder of innovation thought leadership website ‘The Future Shapers’, which brings together a global network of innovation experts, thinkers and practitioners to provide world-class perspectives on the challenges of driving innovation in a VUCA world.

- Cris is an authority on how to create an innovative organisation. He is an accomplished speaker and facilitator, regularly engaging senior business audiences to tackle the essential issues within the organisational innovation space. Having delivered executive development programmes to many of Henley’s global clients I can honestly say that the impact of Cris’ interventions are not only immediate, they’re essential!”

Paul Bennett
Director of Executive Education, Henley Business School

Cris Beswick

Advisor, Author & Speaker on Innovation Culture

Building a Culture of Innovation by Cris Beswick, Derek Bishop & Jo Geraghty.

Building a Culture of Innovation presents a practical framework that you can follow to design and embed a culture of innovation in your business. It includes case studies from international organisations which have shifted their focus to an innovation culture, including Prudential, Qinetiq, Octopus Investments, Cisco, Siemens, BrightMove Media, Waitrose and Feefo and is supported with downloadable resources.

Building a Culture of Innovation is an essential read for business leaders and change implementation teams who want to place innovation at the heart of their business strategy.

Building a Culture of Innovation

#1 Bestselling Author

Universidad ICESI

Visiting Professor for Innovation Culture

Part of the executive faculty at Henley Business School and the Henley Partnership delivering executive development programs and masterclasses on innovation strategy, leadership & culture.

Henley Business School

Executive Faculty

In a world of hyper competition, unprecedented challenges and constant disruption, the need for business innovation allied to an organization-wide culture of innovation has never been higher on the strategic agenda. Wouldn’t you agree?

If your organization is not where you had hoped, implementing a new future-focused, strategic approach to innovation with a one-of-a-kind globally recognized thought leader on innovation strategy, leadership, and culture could be exactly what you need.

So, if you’re planning an upcoming conference, an all-hands meeting, or executive leadership development, you will want to know about this award-winning speaker.

Cris Beswick has helped some of the world’s most ambitious CEO’s, visionary leaders, Fortune 500 companies and Governments solve their most complex innovation challenges. Whatever the issue (i.e., strategy, leadership, management, culture, technology etc) Cris will help catapult you to the top.

Cris is also the author of the book 'The Road to Innovation’ and co-author of ‘Building a Culture of Innovation’, an amazon bestseller and voted one of the CMI’s top books on innovation in 2017.

Some of Cris’ clients include The Government of Dubai, Cisco, SIG, Rank Group, BHA Group, The House of Commons, Ministry of Defence, GCHQ, Arriva, Roche, Ordnance Survey, Nationwide Building Society, National Bank of Kenya and QinetiQ to name but a few (which is the British way of saying there’s a whole lot more).

Want to discuss booking Cris?

For all speaking enquiries please contact Matthew Fisher...
<a href="mailto:matthew@scampsolutions.co.uk">matthew@scampsolutions.co.uk</a>
- 44 (0)20 8854 7247

For any other enquires about masterclasses, consultancy or working with Cris please contact Nikki.…
<a href="mailto:nikki@crisbeswick.com">nikki@crisbeswick.com</a>
- 44 (0)7779 430 379

Your stakeholders, your people and your organization will thank you.

Cris Beswick  -  Keynote Speaker

International Keynote Speaker

London Centre for Executive Excellence

Practicing Professor of Innovation & Co-founder of The London Centre for Executive Excellence

The Future Shapers is an innovation thought leadership platform providing strategic thinking, best practice, unique perspective, knowledge and downloadable resources.

With content from some of the world's leading experts, speakers, practitioners, executives, consultants, academics and thinkers on innovation and the multidisciplinary approach it requires with one aim, to help CEOs and senior teams understand how to Shape the Future through innovation.

<a href="http://www.thefutureshapers.com">www.thefutureshapers.com</a>

The Future Shapers - The Innovation Thought Leadership Platform

Visiting Fellow and expert lecturer on innovation strategy, innovation leadership and innovation culture.

Cranfield University

Visiting Fellow - Cranfield School of Management

Wazoku is a leading idea management software company – empowering enterprise, public sector and third sector organisations to innovate and achieve their corporate goals through structured, managed, measured and sustainable collaborative idea management and employee innovation engagement programmes.

As Strategic Advisor on Innovation Cris is supporting Wazoku’s position as thought leaders on innovation strategy and how to build a culture of Everyday Innovation through the integrated and strategic use of technology and network-wide platforms.

Wazoku is trusted by more than 50 organisations including the University of Oxford, Capita, Waitrose, Aviva, BBC and Abellio; and was the only UK firm recognised by Gartner in its 'Who's Who In Innovation Management Technology' report.

Wazoku

Strategic Advisor on Innovation

Culture Consultancy assists clients in building successful businesses and increasing their profit by enabling cultural alignment, elevating performance and enhancing relationships. We offer bespoke solutions to organisations that are suffering from the result of mis-matched or non-productive work environments or relationships.

We seek to understand our client’s strategic vision, business objectives and core values and explore how this should be reflected through their structure, people, policies and procedures as well as their interaction with clients and relationships with partners and suppliers.

We then implement solutions using a practical and proven methodology which achieves quantifiable and sustainable results.

Culture Consultancy

Director of Innovation Consulting

Cris' 1st book The Road to Innovation shows leaders, key stakeholders and OD professionals that focusing on innovation itself isn’t the answer and that creating an innovative organisation is done through its people. Exploring 7 key areas of focus The Road to Innovation gives a practical insight into just what it takes to create a company capable of innovation!