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Léa Bunnens

PhD | Innovation & Business Model Consultant

€600/day
Lyon, FR
3-7 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Léa

The best innovation decisions are already there, in your existing business and expertise. My job: to provide the analytical capability to know which elements to connect, and how to turn them into something actionable.

With a PhD specializing in innovation and business models, I worked for 5 years simultaneously as R&D Director and innovation consultant. This dual experience gives me a rare understanding of innovation projects, at the crossroads of scientific and business challenges.
I work with organizations of all sizes on three main types of missions:
- Strategic Scoping: transforming an idea or opportunity into a clear value proposition and structuring its validation roadmap
- Business Model Construction: structuring or transforming a business model anchored in your market reality
- Embedded Partnership: joining your team in the medium term to feed your strategic innovation decisions with rigorous analytical insight
These missions are frequent entry points, not rigid frameworks. Each project has its own reality, and I always adapt my intervention to your needs.

My deliverables are designed to be adoptable. I provide tools and frameworks that your teams can use without me.

References: Michelin, Schneider Electric, EDF, Renault, Stanley Robotics, CNRS, and currently at DigitalKin (agent AI).
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Lyon (up to 10km)

Experience

  • Léa Bunnens
    Independent Consultant in Innovation & Business Models
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    January 2026 - Today (7 months)
    Lyon, France
    I support startups, scale-ups, and large organizations on their ambitious innovation projects: strategic scoping, business model construction/transformation, usage analysis.

    Ongoing mission at DigitalKin, which develops a platform enabling experts to create and leverage agent AI systems (Kins) dedicated to complex, high-value-added tasks. R&D Kins are for researchers who want to conduct their literature reviews with a high level of methodological rigor, for example.
    As Scientific Advisor for R&D Kins, my mission focuses on 3 main areas:
    - User research with researchers to understand their uses, needs, and pain points
    - Translation of these insights into strategic recommendations at the interface of tech and business teams
    - Active participation in the product improvement loop through prompt engineering.
    Strategic Scoping Innovation Strategy User Research Generative AI
  • Dynergie
    R&D Director
    RESEARCH
    May 2021 - December 2025 (4 years and 7 months)
    Lyon, France
    Management of Dynergie's internal R&D department to maximize the impact and success rate of innovative projects.
    - Definition and monitoring of the R&D roadmap
    - Operational involvement in 3 research projects related to sustainable innovation
    - Valorization of work internally and externally: articles, videos, events
    Research and Development Science Communication Complex Project Management
  • Dynergie
    Expert Innovation Consultant
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    May 2021 - December 2025 (4 years and 7 months)
    Lyon, France
    Around thirty missions with large organizations (Michelin, Schneider Electric), SMEs, startups, and research institutions (CNRS, PUI Grenoble-Alpes), from opportunity identification to market validation:
    - Identification of innovation opportunities based on existing technology, asset, or strategic challenge
    - Structuring of innovative projects: value proposition, associated business model
    - Market interest validation: qualitative interviews, digital quantitative campaigns
    - Assessment of the economic, social, and environmental impact of innovation projects on their ecosystem
    Innovation Strategy Strategic Scoping Competitive Analysis and Benchmarking Product-Market Fit Project Management

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Education

  • PhD in Management Sciences, Management Sciences
    IAE Lille
    2020
    Doctorat en Sciences de Gestion, Sciences de la gestion
  • Master's in General Management of Business Units
    IAE Lille
    2016
    Master, Management Général des Business Units

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