About Julie
Julie has experience as an Innovation Consultant in 20+ industries.
Before going freelance, she was Senior Innovation Strategist at Board of Innovation.
C-levels of €15B+ companies in complex industries such as healthcare trust her advise.
She worked with companies like Philips Healthcare, Novartis, General Electric, Liberty Global, etc.
Her specialties are Innovation Strategy and Business Design.
She worked across 20+ countries.
Her clients are typically Innovation Leads, Learning & Development and Strategic Directors in corporate.
She also coaches visionary entrepreneurs to validate their early stage business.
These entrepreneurs benefit from having a coach who thoroughly understands technologies like Web3, AI, XR, etc.
Julie practices simplification as a key mantra in her strategy work.
She believes innovation strategy, while complex, should not be complicated.
After holding corporate jobs, she turned down €1.2m funding for her startup (twice!).
For the past 8 years, she's been mashing up corporate innovation and entrepreneurship.
Besides client projects, she workes has to simplify strategy in her products on
English
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Dutch
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French
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Antwerp (up to 50km), Brussels (up to 10km), Ghent (up to 10km)
Experience
- IngrainedInnovation strategy consultant for corporatesJune 2020 - Today (6 years)Antwerp, BelgiumInnovation strategy consultant for corporates Specialized in innovation strategy for complex industries (healthcare, industrial, utilities) and complex settings (100k+ employees). What challenges do I solve? Complex, vague strategies that lack a common understanding and actionable plan. Lack of alignment and buy-in of the C-suite. I level up your innovation strategy to 10x ROI with 2 offerings: 1) Innovation strategy sprints, creating value for the full C-suite 2) Coaching innovation leaders to boost career and results Why work with me? Key to my approach is to challenge and simplify your strategy. My superpower is to distill the needs and wishes of C-level board members, and facilitate decision making to align them. Deliverable? A clear innovation strategy + effective innovation plan with 10x ROI.
- IngrainedCo-Founder as a serviceDecember 2021 - Today (4 years and 6 months)Serial entrepreneurs, investors and funded startups hire me to be their early stage co-founder. Taking an idea to a validated business model, focusing on Web3 across all industries.
- Board of InnovationTech Lab leadJanuary 2019 - June 2020 (1 year and 5 months)Antwerp, BelgiumI set up and lead Board of Innovation's Tech Lab, a key strategic initiative. Our goal was to explore InnovationTech tools to be at the forefront of increasing innovation ROI. Some of the insights were published (see links):- Digital tools for algorithmic investing- Empathy 2.0- My vision on InnoTech & favorite tools on innovationstack.io- Virtual consultant chatbot- Tech Lab's mission
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Education
- Master's Degree, Innovation & Strategic ManagementSolvay Brussels School2015Master's Degree, Innovation & Strategic Management
- Professional Bachelor - Business Management, Karel de Grote Hogeschool AntwerpInternational Business2013Professional Bachelor - Business Management, Karel de Grote Hogeschool Antwerp