future opportunity ready
growth direction
lean innovation skills
proposition, product + service design leadership
team + individual coaching
Creating new futures should be the fun part. But if projects get bogged down with competing priorities, sluggish programme management, or missing skills and confidence, it’s easy for momentum to fizzle out.
I work alongside your teams, as a coaching partner. To look at your future, market and projects with fresh eyes. To introduce creative product and service design tools. To build team confidence and capabilities.
With flexible options, from 1 day workshops, to 3-12 month projects & long term partnerships. The goal is to lift the team and the work, rather than create dependence on outside support. So you can make the future real.
discover with foroka:
with futurconomy growth direction
“Where’s the world going next, and where do we fit in? How might we grow differently? What will give clear priorities and motivate our teams? We need to take a step back, and a fresh perspective.”
Foroka Futurconomy growth direction + vision setting brings more original ways of thinking about strategy, while scanning changes in technology, people’s behaviour, market insight, sustainability and competition.
With business projects and studies in economics, behavioural science, sustainability, design and innovation, plus a keen interest in technology and social change, Rich has a broad, creative perspective to bring to conversations about future growth direction.
“Rich's great at seeing what the future could be, how social trends and technology opportunities collide, grounded in current reality - focused on how people really behave and what businesses need to succeed commercially.”
design with foroka:
with live+lean innovation
“How do we bring a fresh approach to creating successful new ventures, products and services? How do we skill up the team, so we don’t get caught up in slow, bloated projects? How do we marry the best of how we do things today, with the creative tools of lean startup, agile methods and design thinking - to get testing, learning and scaling (without getting lost in all that jargon)?”
Bringing creative product + service design thinking to live projects - with Foroka Live+Lean Innovation, founder Rich works alongside your teams. Introducing the right tools at the right time. Designing new products and services together - from gathering insight to creative ideas, to defining what it is and how it will work.
Going deeper to observe customer behaviour. Stimulating fresh ideas. Designing customer experiments together, to see how people really behave when experiencing your innovations - to gather data, the evidence of what might work.
We’ll create the business blueprints to scale up for launch and beyond. We’ll work in sprints, but show how we can flex the project pace as we go.
During live projects, we pick from a suite of Foroka Growth Capsules - micro learning tools that your teams can put straight into practice, with Foroka coaching support.
With experience of delivering £100m propositions whilst working for famous corporate brands, as well as leading lean product and service innovation projects across a wide range of clients, Rich knows how to design and adapt the project team approach for every brief - from large organisations to scaling startups.
“Rich is a visionary and motivates his team by encouraging to think big and the art of the possible whilst creating an energy to test and learn ideas at pace. He is customer centric, entrepreneurial and has a great ability to break through silos to deliver results.”
deliver with foroka:
with realworld coaching
“We’ve got the skills, the talent teams, we’ve read the books and done the training. We’ve got plenty of great ideas. But somehow we don’t overcome the change. People have been encouraged to work differently, but plenty of everyday challenges and obstacles get in the way of making stuff happen.”
To succeed with new ventures, products and services, everyone needs to do some things differently - we have to overcome our habits, we have to change processes, we have to nudge customers to break their own routines and maybe buy something completely new.
It’s a lot of change at once. Coaching is often the missing piece of successful growth and innovation projects - it helps to unlock the personal change at the heart of teams working differently.
Foroka Realworld Coaching brings that individual and team growth. By listening to the challenges, walking with someone to help think through the way to overcome the obstacles. We can identify new insights - and open up new ways to think about the everyday challenges getting in the way.
Organisation growth can only come from personal growth.
"Rich combines a deep sense of empathy with a laser sharp ability to listen - and adds to that a clearly structured and practical coaching approach. I gained new insights and deeper levels of understanding about my habits, how I see situations and how I react to them. I immediately sensed a shift in my behaviour.”
