Gerry Purcell is a seasoned business advisor and thought leader with over three decades of experience with BCG, Kearney and as a boutique consulting partner. Today, he works with start-ups and scale-up firms as a principal and part of the Innovation360 Group global team.

Prior to consulting, Gerry was an operations executive with responsibility for the development and execution of several leading-edge business initiatives in the financial services industry. Over the years, his clients have included some of the largest organizations in the world, and some of the smallest, in the private, public, and not for profit sectors, in almost every corner of the globe.

Throughout Gerry’s career he has been drawn to cutting edge ideas and actions that help executives navigate through uncertainty to help their organizations to arrive as leaders in their field and more importantly, keep them there. He is the author of the Innovation Toolkit book series and has made significant contributions to thought leadership in transformation and innovation. He has also been the host of two podcast series, Global Thought Leader Insights and The Finnovate Show. He has been a prolific contributor, spokesman and sought after expert in the media on subjects such as innovation, strategy and transformation throughout his career.

While continuing a lifetime ambition to grow as a thought leader and business advisor, Gerry’s focus continues to be on contributing to global dialogue, including books like this one, and helping his clients to respond to the challenges they face in an increasingly uncertain world.

When not traveling, Gerry divides his time between Toronto and the South Shore of Nova Scotia in Canada.

Peter Junermark is an acclaimed trainer who has brought his skills to some of the world’s most recognizable brands. As a leader of Innovation360 workshops, Peter specializes in bringing disruptive technology and breakthrough projects to life. He is the senior software architect and lead developer with primary responsibility for the platform supporting the tools of the Innovation360 Group.

Before joining the Innovation360 Group, Peter was cofounder and a senior manager at Open Training Sweden’s Gothenburg office. During his long-term consultancy at the Volvo Information Technology headquarters, Peter built learning-management and competence-management systems.

As one of the initial contributors to the Innovation360 Framework, Peter brings to this series of volumes a deep understanding of the theoretical foundations of his work. Peter’s training background and logically ordered thinking proved to be invaluable in explaining the most complex relationships in plain language with examples that are easy to visualize.

Peter holds a master of science in computer engineering from Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. His latest projects involve the investigation of cutting-edge AI that expand on agile methodologies and establish an easily sharable set of coding principles.

Sten Jacobson has successfully managed more than two hundred management-consulting assignments, during which he challenged board members, executive teams, and managers to keep pressing for more creative yet profitable business models, often with sustainability at the core of the differentiation.

He is a master at the practical applications of Blue Ocean strategy creation, which is designed to unearth one-of-a-kind, data-derived pockets of uncontested markets. He shows companies how to redraw industry boundaries in such a way that it essentially makes competition irrelevant.

Sten is the leading instructor for the accreditation of Innovation360’s global cadre of licensed practitioners. He has been instrumental in spreading the InnoSurvey results and methodologies out to every continent. He has engaged within workgroups at the ongoing international standardization work (ISO) on innovation-management systems and innovation-management assessment. Among Sten’s most in-demand skills are his expertise in executive-team mentoring, power conceptualization/visualization, seismic disruption, and the applications of advanced tech within professional services. His speaking engagements for C-level execs and international associations also frequently center on his work in value-proposition design, business-process mapping, and digital transformation.

He brings to this series a wider perspective on strategic execution of Innovation360 principles, translating the mechanics of innovation into management standards and practices that can be put into effect the moment the innovation team is assembled.

Sten holds a master of science in electronic engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. He also holds higher-management education from the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) in Stockholm.