Innovation doesn't fail because an idea is too ambitious. It fails because the people leading it don't understand how to properly manage the process from raw concept to working reality. That's the gap we close.
With over 29 years of hands-on experience across defense systems, human performance, biomechanics, and advanced R&D, we've spent nearly three decades learning exactly where innovation projects go wrong — and more importantly, how to prevent it. Having led more than 140 innovation projects and secured over $21 million in government funding, we know the difference between an idea that stalls in committee and one that reaches full deployment.
When you bring in an advisor with this depth of experience, you're not just adding a consultant to your team. You're removing the single biggest cost driver in any innovation project: avoidable mistakes. Every wrong turn — a design decision that has to be unwound, a testing phase that gets rushed, a technical risk that wasn't flagged early enough — costs time and money that most organizations can't afford to lose. Twenty-nine years of navigating high-uncertainty, first-of-its-kind development means we've already seen the failure modes other teams are still discovering the hard way.
This is what Strategic Innovation Advisory delivers: a structured, experienced hand guiding your project from vision to execution, so your team can move faster with far greater confidence in the outcome. We work directly with organizations, startups, and government partners to identify where the real risks are — not the imagined ones — and build a clear path around them.
If your priority is protecting your budget, compressing your timeline, and dramatically increasing the odds that your innovation initiative actually succeeds, this is exactly the kind of experience you want in your corner.
Ready to reduce the risk on your next innovation initiative? Let's talk.he